The White House recently proposed a plan to keep funding Planned Parenthood if the nonprofit organization discontinued providing abortions, The New York Times reported. The offer was rejected by Planned Parenthood officials. “Let’s be clear, federal funds already do not pay for abortions,” Dawn Laguens, the executive vice president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of […]

President Trump signed a new travel ban Monday that administration officials said they hope will end legal challenges over the matter by imposing a 90-day ban on the issuance of new visas for citizens of six majority-Muslim nations, authorities said. The Hill: Supreme Court Won’t Hear Transgender Bathroom Case Townhall: Gowdy: There’s a Paper Trail We Can […]

President Trump’s pledge to rebuild the military does not include the armed services’ fifth branch — the U.S. Coast Guard, reports The Washington Times.  “It’s nonsensical to pursue a policy of rebuilding the armed forces while proposing large reductions to the U.S. Coast Guard budget,” Rep. Duncan Hunter, California Republican, said Thursday in a letter […]

House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz is calling on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to recuse himself from any ongoing investigation into connections between the Trump campaign and the Russian government,according to Townhall. Chaffetz also wants Sessions to clarify his testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee during his January confirmation hearing, in the wake of reports […]

A CBS News/YouGov poll of people who watched President Trump’s address to Congress found 76 percent of viewers approved of the speech and 82 percent found it “presidential.” Seventy-one percent of viewers — and even 36 percent of Democrats — found the speech “unifying,” according to the poll. A CNN/ORC poll of speech-watchers found about 70 percent made them […]