Author: Christian Datoc, Washington Examiner

EXCLUSIVE — White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is in the midst of returning from maternity leave following the birth of her second child, with administration officials discussing potentially holding her first briefing back behind the podium as soon as next week. Leavitt, the youngest White House press secretary in history, started her leave in…

Vice President JD Vance has become the face of the Irandeal, leaving him with two immediate tasks: negotiate a final peace deal and ultimately sell it to the public.  Doing so, according to Trumpworld insiders, requires couching President Donald Trump’s brash public statements, keeping both domestic and foreign wings of the president’s coalition on task,…

Vice President JD Vance joined President Donald Trump in urging Republicans to link the SAVE America Act to renewal of a key spy program that has stalled in the Senate. “Why don’t we try and at least force people to vote against it?” Vance said at a Thursday press briefing at the White House. Trump…

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he would send the text of the Iran ceasefire deal to Congress for review before a potential signing ceremony later this week. The president was in Evian, France, on Tuesday morning, where he addressed some criticism from Republicans, including staunch ally Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), about the 60-day memorandum…

President Donald Trump claimed that the ceasefire terms reported by Iranian state media on Friday were “fake news” and denied offering any monetary compensation to Tehran to secure their cooperation in ending the war. Iranian state media began circulating a 14-point ceasefire agreement Friday morning, which included more than $300 billion being paid out to…

President Donald Trump said that Israel and Iran are once again negotiating a ceasefire as violence in the Middle East escalated over the weekend. Iran launched a missile strike against Israel Sunday morning in retaliation for Israel’s attacks against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon earlier in the weekend. Israel responded Monday morning with a strike against…

Scott Bessent traveled to the Reagan National Economic Forum last week and delivered a message that would have been almost unthinkable from a Republican treasury secretary a decade ago: America got globalization wrong. Speaking before an audience of Reagan Republicans, Bessent argued that both parties spent decades sacrificing industrial capacity, supply-chain resilience, and national security…