Missouri GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt hit the dirt Wednesday night at Nationals Park — and came up bloody. But the Republican senator&#8217;s dive-and-snag in left field was just the highlight reel moment in another merciless GOP dismantling of the Democrats, 11-2, the sixth consecutive Republican victory in the Congressional Baseball Game for Charity.
Schmitt opened his face going full stretch for a ball that had no business being caught. He got it anyway. That, in a nutshell, is the difference between these two teams right now.
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Left it all on the field.
Republicans win 11-2
Honored to be named MVP. 🇺🇸 <a href="https://t.co/5vZtOifN2n">pic.twitter.com/5vZtOifN2n</a>
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Republicans play baseball disciplined, hungry, and willing to bleed for it. Democrats play like they govern: full of optimism, short on execution.
Not including players lost by elections, the GOP rolled out the exact same starting lineup that crushed the Democrats 13-2 last year because why mess with a winning formula? Florida Rep. Greg Steube took the hill and was virtually unhittable, going the distance and fanning five. Meanwhile, Democratic starter Rep. Chris Deluzio of Pennsylvania kept decent control — until a wild throw on a routine grounder in the second let two more GOP runners score. Poor fielding haunted the Dems all night. By the end of the fourth, Republicans led 11-0.
The Democrats did manage to hit the ball. They just couldn&#8217;t do anything with it. A Morgan McGarvey ground-rule double in the fourth ended in an out at the plate. Rep. Dave Min drove in two runs on an RBI single to give the libs something to cheer about. That was about it.
More than 32,000 fans packed the park — blowing past the average Nationals attendance this season of about 22,000 — and raised a record $3.2 million for charity, up from last year&#8217;s record $2.8 million. After every GOP big play, the conservative faithful <a href="https://rollcall.com/2026/06/10/congressional-baseball-game-2026/">erupted</a> in a chant of &#8220;U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!&#8221;
Which brings us to the broader point. Republicans don&#8217;t just play America&#8217;s game better — they respect it better.
Remember October 30, 2001 — 49 days after 9/11 — when George W. Bush walked to the Yankee Stadium mound in a bulletproof vest hidden under an FDNY fleece, with a Secret Service agent disguised as an umpire, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjGcCI9ByWw">drilled a perfect strike</a> before a stunned, grieving nation? That pitch didn&#8217;t just open a World Series game. It told New York City — and every terrorist watching — that America was still standing.
Contrast that with Barack Obama — the same person who claimed he was a Chicago White Sox fan who attended games at “Kaminsky Field” (the park&#8217;s name at the time was &#8220;Comiskey Park&#8221;) and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-Tart58c7E">short-armed</a> a fluttery arc that forced the catcher to lunge. A president who throws like that manages the country like that.
Wednesday night, the GOP played like Bush pitched that night. Hard, accurate, and straight down the middle — even if it cost them a bloody nose.
The series record now stands at 48 wins for Republicans and 42 for Democrats, with one tie. The streak started in 1909. America&#8217;s been keeping score ever since.

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Senator Eric Schmitt, the Republican from Missouri, says it&#8217;s all out battle with Democrats right now, saying they&#8217;ve turned themselves into &#8220;legislative terrorists&#8221; and that the days when bipartisanship was possible are gone.
&#8220;This is a new world. This is a different era,” Schmitt said in a wide-ranging interview on the political landscape. “This isn&#8217;t Ted Kennedy working with somebody on some bill; they&#8217;re legislative terrorists at this point.”
Schmitt said he expects Democrat leadership to find a way to shut down the government again before the midterm elections in November, arguing that Chuck Schumer &#8220;hears the footsteps&#8221; of fellow New York Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and needs to prove to his base that he&#8217;s a fighter.
“They&#8217;re going to shut it down,” Schmitt said.
Schmitt said the new landscape is perfectly timed with the Supreme Court’s ruling curbing race-based redistricting has reshaped the midterm election landscape, urging Republicans to go on offense and challenge congressional maps in blue states as Democrats hope to ride voter frustration over affordability to the ballot box.
Schmitt said the high court’s decision “opens up a much larger front” for targeting Democratic-led states like California and Illinois.
The former Missouri Attorney General, has called on the Department of Justice to sue California, arguing the voter-approved maps illegally relied on race to likely gain five blue seats.
“I view it as all upside because the Democrats have been doing this forever,” Schmitt said to reporters, including The Daily Wire, noting that no Republicans represent the New England area in Congress. 
Schmitt argued that the nationwide push to redraw maps in red states, combined with the Trump administration’s deportation efforts, reflects a more aggressive Republican Party.
“They understand that their political power is a real risk,” Schmitt said. “Just listen to [House Minority Leader] Hakeem Jeffries. I mean, this guy sounds like totally unhinged about how they will approach this.” 
Last Friday, the Virginia Supreme Court invalidated a state referendum that would likely have allowed Democrats to pick up five blue seats, delivering a devastating setback to Democratic efforts to take back the House of Representatives.
In response, some Democrats, including Jeffries, have floated lowering the retirement age to replace the entire Virginia Supreme Court with new nominees aligned with their political goals, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/us/politics/democrats-virginia-plans-gerrymandering.html">according to the New York Times. </a>Governor Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) on Monday <a href="https://x.com/TylerEnglander/status/2053924629530501207?s=20">shot down the idea. </a>
“I don&#8217;t know Hakeem Jeffries, I’m not a member of the House, but just watching him right now, he seems like [a] very desperate man because he thought he was going to be speaker,” Schmitt said. “I don&#8217;t know how everything&#8217;s going to play out, but this structural bias that they had for a long time over the next four to five years could be completely wiped out, and that&#8217;s a good thing.”

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The consequences of the government shutdown rear their ugly heads, a congressional hearing to examine the origins of political violence, and Trump continues his Asia tour as the Left melts down over his East Wing renovations.
It’s Tuesday, October 28, 2025, and this is the news you need to know to start your day. Today’s edition of the Morning Wire podcast can be heard below, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/mrn-251028">the video version can be seen on The Daily Wire</a>:
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Government Shutdown Repercussions</h2>
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Topline: The government shutdown is dragging on, and pressure is mounting on Democrats to end it.
About 13,000 air traffic controllers are set to miss their first paycheck on Tuesday, which is bound to make a bad situation significantly worse. Some reports say air traffic controllers are taking second jobs as DoorDash drivers to supplement their income.
Roughly 18,700 flights were delayed on Sunday. On Monday, more than 3,000 flights were delayed, and more than 100 were canceled. Airports have become a flash point of the shutdown. Air traffic controllers and TSA agents were some of the first employees to see their pay disrupted, and Americans are generally united in hating flight delays.
Uh-oh, Democrats: A couple of major airline pilot unions last week called for an end to the shutdown, and that turned out to be only a precursor of what was to come. Now, the largest union representing 800,000 federal workers, the American Federation of Government Employees, has issued a statement calling for the Senate to pass a continuing resolution to end the shutdown.
Union President Everett Kelley said it&#8217;s time for leaders to focus on solving problems for the American people rather than on who is going to get the blame for the shutdown. He is calling for back pay for every single employee who has been forced to stay home.
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AFGE is a Democratic stalwart. It pushed to stop the Trump administration from making federal workers return to the office, it endorsed Joe Biden for president, and just last week, it blamed Trump and congressional Republicans for keeping the government closed. But while this statement doesn’t lay the blame on one party in particular, the union calls for a clean CR, which Republicans have put forward over a dozen times and Democrats keep rejecting.
Oh SNAP: In addition to flight delays and organized labor turning against them, Democrats also have to contend with the fact that food stamps benefits will lapse starting on Friday.
The expiration of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits will impact 40 million people. House Majority Whip Tom Emmer said on Monday that not only is this affecting airports, but that some states, such as his own, will now have to be forced to cut off SNAP benefits—an example of SNAP becoming one of the big talking points this week.
Food stamps are not an explicitly partisan issue, and lawmakers from both parties will have to explain this disruption in benefits to their constituents. Democrats are working to shift the blame to Republicans. The California Department of Social Services is texting residents, blaming the imminent SNAP disruption on Trump and the GOP.
Republicans dismissed the attack, as California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom is using taxpayer money to spread political propaganda. But each new disruption is likely going to hit Democrats harder than Republicans, increasing the likelihood that some members of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s caucus break ranks in the coming days.
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Hearing On Politically Violent Attacks</h2>
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Topline: The assassination of Charlie Kirk has prompted a congressional hearing for Tuesday, organized by Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO), on &#8220;Politically Violent Attacks.” The hearing seeks to examine the origins of political violence and extremism, which have come mainly from the Left in recent years. 
Morning Wire spoke with Sen. Schmitt and Michael Knowles, host of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-michael-knowles-show">The Michael Knowles Show</a>” on The Daily Wire, about the nature of political violence in the United States today. (The following transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.)
Morning Wire: Senator, you’ve organized this hearing, and this issue is obviously a high priority. What are the goals of the proceedings today?
Schmitt: The assassination of Charlie Kirk brought left-wing political violence really front and center, and I think it needs to be exposed. This isn’t a one-off thing. This is sort of an ideology that’s taken hold now. When you have 25% of those who describe themselves as “very liberal” believe political violence is justified, over 55% of those on the left believe it&#8217;s at least somewhat justifiable to assassinate President Trump, there’s a problem. And I think if we’re ever going to get on the other side of this and get to healing – where we can say, free speech, yes, political violence, no – we have to expose the truth, which is that this is overwhelmingly coming from one side.
Morning Wire: Senator thanks for joining us. Among those testifying at the hearing today is Daily Wire host Michael Knowles. Michael, good to have you back on. You obviously were invited to this hearing for specific reasons – tell us about that, and what you plan to address.
Knowles: I was invited largely because I was the target of leftist violence on a few occasions, but of organized leftist violence, specifically two years ago. This was at the University of Pittsburgh. I was doing a debate on the topic of transgenderism, and there was a large demonstration. They burnt me in effigy, lit the street on fire, and then two Antifa operatives showed up and threw smoke bombs at the attendees and the police. And then threw a large explosive firework at the police and seriously injured one female police officer, gave her life-altering injuries that took her out of work for at least a year – and also injured other police officers as well. … Happily, there was one intrepid FBI agent in the crowd, and he had noticed the uptick in left-wing violence at these conservative speaker events. … It was only because he really pushed this up through the DOJ that any charges were brought at all. … So these are two people who are members of an anarchist cell, part of the Torch Antifa Network. The guy had set off TSA scanners with explosive material multiple times. It’s an illustrative example of violence because if you look up left-wing ideologically motivated violence in any of the databases that concern it or at the federal government level, you won&#8217;t find it. It won&#8217;t turn up. That just doesn&#8217;t exist, and this is true for a lot of examples of left-wing violence, perhaps most notably the BLM riots, which are just simply not classified as left-wing violence. … So we’re going to call attention to that fact, as well as to the fact that now even the honest liberals can not hold up the lie that the violence is coming from the right.
Morning Wire: What do you think the federal government’s role should be in addressing politically motivated violence — is there a line which they should not cross?
Knowles: I don’t think we’re at fear of over-policing left-wing terrorists, okay? I think we’re barely policing them at all. And so then the question becomes, well, what tools are at the federal government&#8217;s disposal? And there are plenty. You know, President Trump has said that he will classify Antifa as a domestic terror organization. Now, the government is more limited in its resources to go after domestic terrorists as opposed to foreign terrorists. However, we&#8217;ve done it before. The federal government has successfully dismantled the Ku Klux Klan, has successfully dismantled organized crime using all sorts of statutes; going after them for RICO, for conspiracy, for all manner of things all the way up to tax evasion, I suppose. President Trump putting this renewed focus on it is very important because the Left has dismissed this as a concern by lying and saying that the political violence is a right-wing phenomenon, and it has allowed this problem to fester so much so that we saw its tragic apotheosis in the murder of Charlie Kirk – and we cannot allow that to continue anymore.
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Trump Hunts For A Deal</h2>
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Topline: President Trump continues his swing through Asia as Democrat and media backlash builds following his White House renovation.
Japan: After signing a big peace deal Sunday between Thailand and Cambodia and rolling out new trade deals elsewhere, Trump headed to Japan, where he received royal treatment. Famous landmarks across Tokyo were lit up with red, white, and blue displays.
The Trump administration and Japan reached a deal on rare earth minerals on Tuesday and unveiled a list of projects included in a $550 billion investment proposal stemming from a July trade agreement.
The rare earth deal, which President Donald Trump signed alongside Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, establishes a mutual stockpiling arrangement and stipulates that the United States and Japan will cooperate with international partners to protect the supply chain, Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/trump-takaichi-agree-rare-earth-critical-minerals-supply-2025-10-28/">reported</a>. Trump has been pushing to better secure the rare-earth supply chain and cut into China&#8217;s stranglehold over rare-earth minerals.
Along with the rare-earth deal, the United States and Japan released a list of proposed projects to boost Japanese investment in the U.S. economy. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1983119054983287061">said</a> at a press conference alongside Trump on Tuesday that the proposals &#8220;are driven by the Japanese strategic investment initiative, which was created by [Trump&#8217;s] tariff policy and by [Trump&#8217;s] historic trade agreement with Japan.&#8221;
The White House credited the threat of tariffs with pushing our trading partners to make deals favorable to the United States. Deals were announced with Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam on Sunday, and now Japan has been added to the list on Monday. But the world is still waiting to see what will come of this meeting with China on Thursday. 
China: Officials from both sides have continued to meet to hammer out the framework of a deal. The White House says it&#8217;s confident both sides will agree to dramatically lower tariffs and possibly strike a permanent solution to the battle over TikTok ownership.
Trump put it more bluntly: “I think we&#8217;re going to come away with a deal.”
While Trump’s optimism has not always preceded deals, investors seem to think this is good news. Gold, cryptocurrency, and oil prices all spiked on Monday as global markets rallied to all-time highs across Asia.
On Wall Street, the DOW, NASDAQ, and S&amp;P 500 all hit record highs on Monday. Leading the way were tech companies like Nvidia, which have been hobbled this year by massive tariffs on semiconductors. Stateside, shares of domestic mining companies fell, a sign that investors believe China is about to reopen the flow of rare earth minerals as part of a looming deal.
White House remodel: The East Wing of the White House has now been demolished to make way for a 90,000 square foot ballroom. The administration says it’s a matter of practicality and safety, noting that in the past, if a president wanted to hold a large event honoring foreign dignitaries, they were often forced to erect makeshift tents on the White House lawn.
Former presidents such as Teddy Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, FDR, Harry S. Truman, Richard Nixon, and Barack Obama added items to the White House, made renovations, or removed items. Though that has not stopped criticism from being leveled at Trump over his plans for a ballroom.
There are already some on the Left attempting to mount a legal challenge to block the project. A Virginia couple filed a motion in a D.C. federal court last week seeking a temporary restraining order against the demolition, arguing it violates the National Historic Preservation Act. The administration says it’s well within its authority to make renovations, the same way so many presidents have done before.

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The biggest critics of President Donald Trump&#8217;s efforts to achieve peace between Ukraine and Russia have been &#8220;wrong&#8221; on foreign policy for decades, according to Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO).
During an interview on &#8220;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377012120112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News Sunday</a>,&#8221; Schmitt delivered a retort after being pressed to respond to critiques from his colleagues across the aisle following Trump&#8217;s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska last week.
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Sen. <a href="https://twitter.com/Eric_Schmitt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Eric_Schmitt</a>: The people who are most critical of <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>&#8216; pursuit of peace &#8220;have been wrong, for the last 30 years, about every single foreign policy issue under the sun.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/JMkr8ljDEy">pic.twitter.com/JMkr8ljDEy</a>
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&#8220;The people who are most critical have been wrong for the last 30 years about every single foreign policy issue under the sun,&#8221; Schmitt told anchor Shannon Bream.
As an example, Schmitt took aim at Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser under former President Joe Biden who had also been interviewed on the program on Sunday.
&#8220;I mean, you just had Jake Sullivan on,&#8221; Schmitt said. &#8220;Jake Sullivan just presided over, in the last four years, the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, the invasion of Ukraine by Russia that he&#8217;s now critical about President Trump.&#8221;
Sullivan also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-biden-adviser-bragged-of-quiet-middle-east-one-week-before-hamas-attacked-israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bragged</a> in October 2023 about the Middle East region being &#8220;quieter&#8221; than it had been in two decades — just days before Hamas launched a deadly attack on Israel.
&#8220;So, these Wilsonian adventurers who think America can be everywhere all at once all the time have been wrong about everything,&#8221; Schmitt said.
Democrats have argued that Trump is being played by Putin, but Schmitt rejected the idea that a peace agreement is not attainable just because the Alaska meeting did not immediately end the conflict.
&#8220;I look at this from a realistic point of view,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The diplomacy that President Trump is engaging in, which has been very successful since he took office, is about engaging people that, you know, maybe aren&#8217;t your best friends in the world, but you&#8217;re trying to get to a peace deal. That&#8217;s exactly what this was.&#8221;
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders are expected to huddle with Trump at the White House on Monday. Another meeting with Putin could follow.
&#8220;It&#8217;s going to take time,&#8221; Schmitt said. &#8220;So, that meeting led to the next meeting, which is going to happen on Monday, which will likely lead to the next meeting. That&#8217;s how that typically works. I think for some people so used to the 24-hour news cycle, maybe that isn&#8217;t fast enough, but that&#8217;s how the real-world works.&#8221;
Schmitt contended Trump is trying to be a uniter, unlike Biden.
&#8220;We just didn&#8217;t see that the last four years. Joe Biden was out to lunch and his only plan was to send $200 billion of American taxpayer funds over there without a plan,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And so President Trump, I think, is seeking peace. He&#8217;s bringing the parties together. And that&#8217;s what diplomacy is all about. That should always be our first option, and that&#8217;s where we&#8217;re at right now.&#8221;

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Assistant Attorney General For Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon testified before a Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday about the dangers of using Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) practices in the federal government.
Committee Chairman Eric Schmitt (R-MO) began the hearing by saying that &#8220;For at least the last decade, America&#8217;s civil rights laws have been used not to prohibit discrimination but to institutionalize it&#8230;It slunk in through the backdoor cloaked in bureaucratic double-speak and soothing euphemisms.&#8221;
Dhillon testified that, based on one of President Donald Trump&#8217;s early <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-how-woke-federal-employees-could-keep-dei-alive-in-defiance-of-trumps-order" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive orders</a>, her department has been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-investigating-more-than-50-universities-for-anti-white-anti-asian-discrimination" target="_blank" rel="noopener">working</a> to end DEI and antisemitism in the federal government and at other organizations.
She referenced the Department of Health and Human Services&#8217; Office for Civil Rights, which recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-finds-harvard-discriminated-against-jewish-students-threatens-funding?author=Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Admin+Finds+Harvard+Discriminated+Against+Jewish+Students%2C+Threatens+Funding" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sparred</a> with Harvard University over antisemitism among students and staff. Dhillon also referenced the federal government&#8217;s legal action against many state governments — including California and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oregon-is-doubling-down-on-dei-in-the-classroom-it-should-focus-on-test-scores-instead?author=Mairead+Elordi&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=As+Oregon+Defies+Trump+On+DEI+In+Schools%2C+Its+Students+Are+Falling+Through+The+Cracks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Oregon</a> — which have defied the Trump administration&#8217;s anti-DEI directive.
&#8220;The goal is clear: either DEI will end on its own, or we will kill it,&#8221; Dhillon said.
Ranking Member Peter Welch (D-VT) disagreed with Schmitt and Dhillon, saying &#8220;The question before this Congress is whether we&#8217;re going to save the Civil Rights Division or we&#8217;re going to destroy it.&#8221;
Welch alleged that the Department of Justice, namely the civil rights division that Dhillon leads, operated at the whim of Trump rather than the Constitution.
Welch brought Alabama State Senator Robert Stewart (D) to testify about the Justice Department&#8217;s <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-terminates-environmental-justice-settlement-agreement-advancing-president" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cancellation</a> of funds to install a septic system in poor parts of the state over DEI practices, accusing the department of intentionally harming poor black communities.
Stewart testified that &#8220;DEI initiatives are not preferences or perks. They are attempts to rectify generations of exclusion and ensure equal access to opportunity.&#8221; He continued by saying that &#8216;to eliminate these efforts under the guise of enforcing civil rights is to misinterpret history and undermine justice.&#8221;
Gene Hamilton, the president of America First Legal — a nonprofit aimed in part at eliminating DEI practices — responded later that &#8220;The civil rights division of the Department of Justice does not need to be involved with septic tanks. That is not a civil rights issue.&#8221;
Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) spoke about how he sees the real meaning of DEI. He said that &#8220;When someone says &#8216;diversity, equity, and inclusion&#8217; — we&#8217;re talking about quotas.&#8221;
&#8220;The American people understand that souls have no color,&#8221; Kennedy added. &#8220;They believe that to a bear we all taste the same — like chicken.&#8221;
Schmitt recently cosponsored a <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/2037?s=1&amp;r=9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a> aimed at strengthening Title VII to include the discrimination against those who express the belief in two genders as unlawful. In February, Schmitt also introduced <a href="https://www.schmitt.senate.gov/media/press-releases/senator-schmitt-congressman-cloud-introduce-the-dismantle-dei-act/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">legislation</a> to codify Trump&#8217;s anti-DEI executive orders. Neither bill has reached the Senate floor as of yet.
Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) touted her counter-<a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-resolution/240" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resolution</a> to Schmitt&#8217;s anti-DEI bills, &#8220;A resolution affirming that diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility are fundamental values of the United States and emphasizing the ongoing need to address discrimination and inequality in the workplace, pre-K through 12th grade and higher education systems, government programs, the military, and our society.&#8221;
&#8220;My Republican colleagues are intent on teaching young people that people different from them are to be feared, mistrusted, and treated with suspicion,&#8221; Hirono said.
She continued, &#8220;This country was built by slaves dragged here against their will from a continent they would never see again. So we have always struggled with racism and exclusion in our country.&#8221;

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‘We Will Kill It’: Harmeet Dhillon Pledges To Get Racial Ideology Out Of Government

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Senate Democrats spurned a <a href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-activity/hearings/unfit-to-serve-how-the-biden-cover-up-endangered-america-and-undermined-the-constitution" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hearing</a> on Wednesday on the &#8220;cover-up&#8221; of President Joe Biden&#8217;s mental state when he was in the White House, a boycott which Republicans took to be a confession of guilt.
All but two Judiciary Committee Democrats skipped the event, which featured testimony from former Trump White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer and others. Ranking member Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT) each departed after they got a chance to speak, casting the proceedings as being a waste of time, according to <a href="https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/18/congress/dems-boycott-hearing-probing-bidens-fitness-00412461" target="_blank" rel="noopener">POLITICO</a>.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) took a swipe at the Democrats after Durbin left the room.
&#8220;I will note that few of my Democratic colleagues are here today — thank you to Sen. Welch from Vermont for being here — leaving us with no other option than to take the boycotting of this hearing as an admission of guilt for their role in this crisis,&#8221; Cornyn said.
Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) made a similar observation.
&#8220;Given [Biden&#8217;s] mental incapacity, the American people deserve to know who was running the country for the last four years,&#8221; Schmitt declared. &#8220;Today, as we seek to answer this question, it is deeply disappointing but not surprising that most Democrats on this committee have chosen to all but boycott the hearing and have failed to call a single witness.&#8221;
He added: &#8220;They have chosen to ignore this issue like they ignored President Biden&#8217;s decline. Their absence speaks volumes — an implicit admission that the truth is too inconvenient to face. By refusing to engage in this critical examination, they abdicate their responsibility to the American people. This de facto boycott is not just a refusal to participate; it&#8217;s a refusal to serve the American people, who deserve answers about who was truly leading their government.&#8221;
There were others who did the same.
&#8220;Not a single Democrat is here today because not a single one of them gives a damn about the fact that they lied to the American people for four years,&#8221; Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) <a href="https://x.com/cspan/status/1935380979419349284" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;They knew, every one of them knew, that Joe Biden was mentally not competent to do the job.&#8221;
Spicer, who now hosts his own show, also <a href="https://x.com/seanspicershow/status/1935375576614785329" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called out</a> the Democrats for being absent.
Durbin used his time during the hearing to show clips of President Donald Trump&#8217;s remarks over the years to suggest that his cognitive ability was in doubt. The video included comments about Haitian migrants eating pets, having &#8220;concepts of a plan,&#8221; and more.
&#8220;Senate Judiciary Republicans are holding a sham hearing now,&#8221; the Democrats on the panel claimed in a <a href="https://x.com/JudiciaryDems/status/1935344992282886363" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> on X that had the supercut of Trump. &#8220;If you want to talk about a President’s state of mind, consider this mess. We’re focused on the critical challenges facing our nation. Back to business.&#8221;
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Trump calls for Iran to surrender, Senate Republicans investigate who was actually steering the ship under Biden’s presidency, and we speak to President Donald Trump&#8217;s sons on the 10th anniversary of that fateful escalator ride.
It’s Wednesday, June 18, and this is the news you need to know to start your day.
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<h2>Trump Demands Unconditional Surrender From Iran, Weighs Military Options</h2>
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Topline: Trump warns Iran to surrender or face the consequences.
As the U.S. weighs intervention in Iran, President Trump is warning the Ayatollah that his patience is wearing thin. The fighting is showing no signs of slowing down as Israel targets Iran’s nuclear and military facilities and Iran targets whatever they can hit, including civilian populations.
On Tuesday, Israel said it killed Ali Shadmani, Iran’s senior military commander. Shadmani had only been in the position for three days after replacing his predecessor, who was killed in a separate strike Friday. The Israelis also launched successful strikes on the Natanz enrichment facility — a crucial part of Iran’s nuclear program. We’re still awaiting a full assessment of the damage, but one Israeli official told the Wall Street Journal the facility may have imploded.
Iran claims it struck an Israeli military intelligence center in Tel Aviv, though Israel says most of the strikes have targeted civilian areas. Elsewhere, Iranian missiles hit the Weizmann Institute of Science — Israeli officials say years&#8217; worth of medical and scientific research was destroyed in the strike.
Donald Trump is still weighing his options and seriously considering joining the war. The president convened his national security team for a Situation Room meeting Tuesday afternoon.
Just before that meeting took place, Trump posted on <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114699514822488706">Truth Social</a>, “We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran. Iran had good sky trackers and other defensive equipment, and plenty of it, but it doesn’t compare to American made, conceived, and manufactured ‘stuff.’”
That use of the word “we” turned heads in Washington. While the White House says the president was referring to American weapons and not Americans directly, it’s quite the departure from a few days ago when the president said America was playing no role in the conflict.
The president also <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114699610769479275">wrote</a> on Tuesday, “We know exactly where the so-called &#8216;Supreme Leader&#8217; [of Iran] is hiding. He is an easy target, but is safe there &#8211; We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now. But we don’t want missiles shot at civilians, or American soldiers. Our patience is wearing thin. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
<h2>The Senate Investigates Biden&#8217;s Cognitive Decline/Cover-Up</h2>
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Topline: Senate Republicans hold a hearing to investigate who was in charge during Joe Biden’s presidency.
The Republican-led Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on Wednesday as part of its investigation into what was going on behind the scenes during Biden’s presidency. Among the questions they’re asking: who was really running the country amid the president’s cognitive decline – and were media outlets colluding to cover it up?
“Everybody could see the clear decline of Joe Biden,” said Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO). “The media tried to dismiss it as &#8216;cheap fakes.&#8217; There was sort of one excuse after another. The Democrats were saying he&#8217;s sharper than he&#8217;s ever been, and they had the left-wing media parroting those talking points, too. And it just is a really dangerous kind of road to go down, to have the one person that&#8217;s elected by the entire country be mentally incompetent. … Personally, I think this scandal is bigger than Watergate, but everybody&#8217;s very eager to sweep it under the rug. And I just don&#8217;t think the American people should accept that.”
In February 2024, Special Counsel Robert Hur declined to prosecute President Biden for mishandling of classified documents, saying it would be difficult to convict him because “Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” That report was widely decried at the time, but more recently, whistleblowers from the Biden White House have come forward with their own stories about the former president’s mental decline and the concerted effort to hide it from the American public – notably in interviews with CNN’s Jake Tapper cited in &#8220;Original Sin: President Biden&#8217;s Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,&#8221; which reignited the controversy.
Schmitt told The Daily Wire that the use of the president’s autopen would be a key subject of the hearing on Wednesday – there are claims that many of the executive orders issued by the Biden administration might have been signed by staffers without his knowledge, although Biden has publicly denied those accusations.
<h2>A Decade Of The Donald</h2>
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Topline: Don Jr. and Eric Trump open up to Morning Wire ten years after their father&#8217;s fateful escalator ride that launched his first successful presidential campaign.
Ten years ago this week, Donald Trump changed American politics forever by announcing a run for the White House. His two elder sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, celebrated that anniversary at an event in Manhattan, where they spoke to Daily Wire White House correspondent Mary Margaret Olohan about the MAGA movement and its impact on their family and the world.
Donald Trump Jr: &#8220;Before the fateful sort of escalator ride down, my father looked at me right in the eyes. He [said], &#8216;Now we find out who our real friends are.&#8217;… He knew how difficult it was gonna be. He knew his friends would turn on him, but more importantly, he knew that was gonna happen and he did it anyway.&#8221;
Eric Trump: &#8220;He’s done amazing things for this nation. And, as a son, I’m truly proud of his fight, of his tenacity, of everything that he’s given up for this country. I mean, they tried to kill him &#8212; multiple times. … He’s tough as hell, and hopefully he’s a great example to so many that will follow because that’s exactly what we need in America.&#8221;

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Mexico&#8217;s president is threatening to &#8220;mobilize&#8221; the country against a Republican proposal to tax remittances, which advocates say would choke off cash flow to Mexican drug cartels.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum raged against the proposal in a speech against the law, which imposes a tax on money sent out of the United States by foreign nationals. “If necessary, we’ll mobilize,&#8221; Sheinbaum said. &#8220;We don’t want taxes on remittances from our fellow countrymen. From the U.S. to Mexico.&#8221;
President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” includes a 3.5 percent tax on remittances, a policy that experts told The Daily Wire is key to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-new-tax-on-money-sent-abroad-could-dry-up-drug-cartel-cash-and-penalize-illegal-immigration">throttling the flow</a> of cash into the hands of the Mexican drug cartels. Republican lawmakers are pushing for a tax on money flowing out of the United States to foreign countries just after the Mexican president said that she would “mobilize against it.”
The Mexican president’s statement drew the ire of Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO), who announced that he was introducing legislation to multiply the proposed 3.5 percent tax on remittances.
“The House’s Big Beautiful Bill addressed the urgent need for a remittance tax. But we can go further. I&#8217;m introducing legislation to quadruple the proposed remittance tax — from 3.5% to 15%,” Schmitt <a href="https://x.com/Eric_Schmitt/status/1931880241188024476">wrote on X</a>. “America is not the world&#8217;s piggy bank. And we don&#8217;t take kindly to threats.”
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Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) also <a href="https://x.com/chiproytx/status/1931864126323622017">addressed</a> Sheinbaum’s statement and came out in support of raising the tax on remittances.
The policy, immigration experts previously told The Daily Wire, would cut into cash that is funnelled from illegal aliens in America back to cartel members.
“Placing a fee on remittances is crucial because the more money that is smuggled back into Mexico, the stronger the cartels become,” said Ira Mehlman, the Media Director for the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
The remittance fee would also help America recuperate money that is effectively exported out of the American economy. “Many illegal aliens are working off-the-books, and therefore, no payroll taxes have been collected. Taxing the money as it leaves the country would be a way to recoup some of that revenue loss,” Mehlman noted. “Large-scale transfers of money to other countries have a negative impact on the American economy.”
Rep. Kevin Hern (R-OK) introduced his own remittance tax legislation in 2022 and remains supportive of the policy.
“The cash flow from illegal immigrants in the States to their cartel partners in Mexico, Venezuela, and other countries is massive,” Hern told The Daily Wire. “It’s a two-fold win: remittance fees will help slow down the flow of those dollars to the cartels and will also create a new revenue source we can use to build the wall and secure our border.”

Claudia Sheinbaum

Mexican President Threatens To ‘Mobilize’ Against Law That Could Help Cut Off Cash To Cartels

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Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) called out judicial activists during a Monday Fox News appearance, arguing that the district court judges attempting to rein in President Donald Trump were stepping outside their prescribed authority and &#8220;taking it upon themselves to usurp really important power.&#8221;
Schmitt joined anchor Harris Faulkner on &#8220;The Faulkner Focus&#8221; to discuss the growing number of district court judges issuing nationwide injunctions against President Trump&#8217;s executive actions, and he predicted that ultimately, the Supreme Court was likely to side with the president.
Schmitt began by describing the situation as a 21st century phenomenon and noting that previous presidents really had not been faced with this particular challenge.
&#8220;In the first — less than 100 days of President Trump&#8217;s administration here, you&#8217;ve seen more injunctions than the 12 years between Obama&#8217;s two terms and Joe Biden, so these judges are more than willing to play an outsized role beyond their Article III authority.&#8221;
Schmitt noted that there was legislation in progress that would clarify beyond question that a district court judge&#8217;s power would only extend to the parties involved — and that the Trump administration was already fighting those injunctions that had already been issued.
&#8220;As these cases make their way up to the Supreme Court, President Trump is going to be successful because he&#8217;s either operating as Commander-in-Chief — or controlling the programming and personnel of the Article II branch.&#8221;
WATCH:
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Sen. <a href="https://twitter.com/Eric_Schmitt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Eric_Schmitt</a>: &quot;These judges are more than willing to play an outsized role beyond their Article III authority&#8230; As these cases make their way up to the Supreme Court, President Trump is going to be successful because he&#39;s either operating as Commander-in-Chief &#8212; or… <a href="https://t.co/J5FE4xxOeK">pic.twitter.com/J5FE4xxOeK</a>
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Schmitt went on to accuse the judges of effectively usurping the president&#8217;s legitimate authority when they used blanket injunctions to try to stop him from deporting criminal illegal aliens.
&#8220;I think a lot of these judges are taking it upon themselves to usurp really important power,&#8221; he said. &#8220;For example, when President Trump declared a predatory incursion of these criminal violent gangs, he&#8217;s well within his Article II executive power to deport them. He can do that. The judge, by stepping in there — Judge Boasberg, by stepping in the case that we&#8217;re talking about &#8230; that is like that judge dictating missile strikes or deciding troop movements. Those are national security issues.&#8221;
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Senator <a href="https://twitter.com/Eric_Schmitt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Eric_Schmitt</a>: &quot;I think a lot of these judges are taking it upon themselves to usurp really important power&#8230; when <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> declared a predatory incursion of these criminal violent gangs, he&#39;s well within his Article II executive power to deport them.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/Nb3UlEkeYf">pic.twitter.com/Nb3UlEkeYf</a>
&mdash; Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1909267307680915663?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Schmitt concluded with the assessment that Trump was on &#8220;firm ground&#8221; when it came to those cases reaching the Supreme Court, but he said that it was also important to continue to address the judicial overreach legislatively.

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Missouri Sen. Torches Activist Judges For Overreach: They ‘Usurp Really Important Power’

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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/eric-schmitt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eric Schmitt</a> (R-MO) signaled support for President Donald Trump&#8217;s tariffs against China, Mexico, and Canada over the weekend.
Schmitt made the remarks during a Sunday interview on NBC News&#8217; &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; when asked why Trump was leveling harder tariffs against Canada than China.
&#8220;All we have to do is look at President Trump&#8217;s first four years where he instituted tariffs,&#8221; Schmitt said. &#8220;We didn&#8217;t see inflation. In fact, we saw record wage growth. We saw $200 billion plus go into the Treasury from those tariffs. Tariffs that help even the playing field with countries who have been ripping us off, quite frankly, for generations. China, specifically. I think the American people are tired of being ripped off.&#8221;
&#8220;They&#8217;re tired of seeing their jobs go overseas,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But I think these tariffs specifically, Kristen, are meant to bring Canada and Mexico to the table for the fentanyl that is streaming into our communities. It&#8217;s also worth noting, in the last four years, that the trade imbalance and our trade deficit has gone up 200% plus with Canada and up 52% with Mexico.&#8221;
&#8220;The fact is, these countries are taking advantage of us,&#8221; he added. &#8220;All along the while, we&#8217;ve got fentanyl streaming into our country. So Mexico has a choice. They can choose to trade with the United States or continue to cozy up with the cartels. It&#8217;s pretty simple.&#8221;
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Mexico has a choice: they can choose to trade with the United States or continue to cozy up with the cartels. It’s pretty simple, <a href="https://t.co/U1yBWEaVP7">pic.twitter.com/U1yBWEaVP7</a>
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Sen Eric Schmitt Signals Support For Trump Tariffs

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Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/eric-schmitt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eric Schmitt</a> (R-MO) used his time during Thursday&#8217;s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to strike up a brief game of &#8220;Would You Rather?&#8221; with Kash Patel, President Donald Trump&#8217;s choice to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
&#8220;I know Senator Willis has got the game of Bingo, I&#8217;d like to play a different game. Would you rather?&#8221; Schmitt began, prompting a laugh from Patel.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s have at it, sir,&#8221; Patel agreed.
Schmitt repurposed the game, which presents a dilemma in the form of an either-or choice to the player, to address real issues that a potential FBI director might have to assign personnel to investigate.
WATCH:
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🚨 NOW: Sen. Eric Schmitt launches a game of &quot;Would You Rather?&quot; with Kash Patel during his confirmation hearing
These questions are gold.<a href="https://twitter.com/Eric_Schmitt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Eric_Schmitt</a>: &quot;Would you rather investigate parents at school board meetings, or investigate the sh**tings that threaten the lives of our… <a href="https://t.co/QIn7OMgpXF">pic.twitter.com/QIn7OMgpXF</a>
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&#8220;Would you rather the FBI prosecute and persecute parents who voice legitimate concerns at school board meetings, or should it investigate domestic terrorists who commit school shootings and threaten the lives of American children?&#8221; Schmitt asked.
The Missouri Senator was referencing the FBI&#8217;s investigation of parents — at the direction of President Joe Biden&#8217;s Justice Department — many of whom were attending school board meetings to protest COVID lockdown policies, as well as classroom instruction on radical gender theory and Critical Race Theory that pushed students toward the ideological Left.
&#8220;Absolutely investigate, and prioritize the safety of our children, any real domestic terrorists, as I&#8217;ve prosecuted in my past in the Obama Justice Department,&#8221; Patel replied.
&#8220;Would you rather the FBI be weaponized by investigating presidential candidates, political opponents, spying on and wire-tapping candidates&#8217; advisors, or should the FBI get back to its core mission and get politics out of the FBI?&#8221; Schmitt asked.
&#8220;There should be no politics in the FBI,&#8221; Patel said, adding, &#8220;And having been a victim of the weaponization of law enforcement against me, I know what that feels like.&#8221;
Another of Schmitt&#8217;s questions was equally targeted toward the Biden administration&#8217;s open-border policies, as well as the DOJ&#8217;s attempt to designate traditional Catholics as right-wing religious &#8220;extremists.&#8221;
&#8220;Would you rather target traditional Catholics as extremists, or should the FBI focus on investigating actual threats posed to American people by cartels pumping fentanyl into our communities through the southern border?&#8221; Schmitt asked.
&#8220;One hundred thousand deaths due to fentanyl and drug overdoses in one year,&#8221; Patel said. &#8220;I&#8217;d rather the FBI focus on that and save our children.&#8221;

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Missouri Senator Uses Patel Hearing To Play ‘Would You Rather?’ — Biden Admin Hardest Hit

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Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) said during an interview over the weekend that the U.S. under President-elect Donald Trump would enter into a &#8220;new phase of realism&#8221; when it comes to intervening in foreign conflicts.
Schmitt made the remarks during a Sunday interview on ABC News&#8217; &#8220;This Week&#8221; with George Stephanopoulos in the context of the collapse of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.
&#8220;I think President Trump has been clear as far as us intervening there,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s a situation that we should do, but I do think diplomacy will be important especially in these critical hours in the aftermath of Assad being overthrown.&#8221;
&#8220;I do think we&#8217;re entering a new phase, though, of realism in this country,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;President Trump will be less interventionist, and we get back to our core national interests. Principally defending the homeland, the Indo-Pacific, and China, and so I think that&#8217;s a longer term conversation.&#8221;
Schmitt said that the U.S. would ensure that people were safe in Syria but would not get entangled in a new conflict that bogs down the U.S. military.
&#8220;Understanding what terrorism means around the world is important, but having these tripwires in other regions that pull us into wars, I think the American people have had enough of that,&#8221; he said.
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He added, &#8220;And I think President Trump was pretty clear about it not only in his first term, but when he campaigned, and so again, I think getting back to the sense of, you know, abandoning this failed foreign policy that&#8217;s cost us trillions of dollars, that sent our men and women across the world, I think we need to revisit that, and again, get back to our core national interests.&#8221;
WATCH:
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GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt tells <a href="https://twitter.com/GStephanopoulos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GStephanopoulos</a> that the U.S. is entering a new phase of “realism&#8221; regarding foreign affairs ahead of the new Trump administration.
“President Trump will be less interventionist and we get back to our core national interests.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/OWUilgoUTg">https://t.co/OWUilgoUTg</a> <a href="https://t.co/a4VjECRF5L">pic.twitter.com/a4VjECRF5L</a>
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1868330056495366631?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 15, 2024</a></blockquote>

Senator Schmitt: U.S. Entering ‘A New Phase Of Realism’ On Foreign Policy

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