The top baby names of 2025 have finally been revealed.
Olivia and Liam remain America&#8217;s most popular baby names for the seventh year, according to the <a href="https://www.ssa.gov/news/en/press/releases/2026-05-08.html">Social Security Administration (SSA).</a>
<a href="https://www.aarp.org/social-security/most-popular-baby-names-2025/">The new rankings</a> marked Liam’s ninth consecutive year as the most popular name. Liam — an Irish form of William — first claimed the top spot in 2017 and has remained there ever since. Olivia, whose name derives from the Latin word for “olive tree,” joined Liam at No. 1 in 2019, ending Emma’s five-year streak as the most popular girls’ name.
Here&#8217;s how the top baby names stacked up, according to SSA&#8217;s latest data.
Top 10 Boy Baby Names
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<li style="font-weight: 400;">Liam</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Noah</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Oliver</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Theodore</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Henry</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">James</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Elijah</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Mateo</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">William</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Lucas</li>
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Top 10 Girl Baby Names
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<li style="font-weight: 400;">Olivia</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Charlotte</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Emma</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Amelia</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Sophia</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Mia</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Isabella</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Evelyn</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Sofia</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Eliana</li>
</ol>
&#8220;Last year, America’s most popular baby names remained consistent with years past, with minimal shifts in the top 10 rankings. Charlotte climbed to second place among girls, ending Emma’s six-year run in the runner-up slot. A top-10 fixture for years, Ava dropped from the list entirely – replaced by Eliana, which debuted at number 10. On the boys’ side, the top four names – Liam, Noah, Oliver, and Theodore – held their places,&#8221; <a href="https://www.ssa.gov/news/en/press/releases/2026-05-08.html">the SSA said.</a>
The list comes as policymakers renew efforts to support mothers and families amid a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/america-is-on-track-to-literally-die-off-new-fertility-data-warns">plummeting, record-low birthrate</a>.
On Mother&#8217;s Day, the White House launched a website to help expectant mothers locate pregnancy centers and learn about health and wellness, a move framed as a nod to the pro-life and &#8220;Make America Healthy Again&#8221; movements, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-white-house-launches-moms-gov-a-win-for-pro-life-and-maha-movements">The Daily Wire exclusively reported</a>.
<a href="https://www.moms.gov/">Moms.gov</a> addresses “the needs of mothers and fathers who face difficult or unexpected pregnancies and [ensures] the wellbeing of mothers and the health of American families,” the White House said in a statement.
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An expectant mother visiting the site can search for nearby pregnancy care centers or federally qualified health centers and quickly find the closest option. The website also features information on the Department of Health and Human Services’ new dietary guidelines, along with nutrition resources for expectant mothers and details on Trump Accounts and Trump RX offerings for those hoping to conceive.
America is not alone in falling birth rates. In England and Wales, the fertility rate fell to a record low of 1.41 in 2024, marking the third straight year of decline, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/uk-birth-rate-motherhood-cost-of-living-crisis-b2949745.html">according to The Independent.</a> Across the pond, however, baby-name trends look a bit different, with <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly4g2v0ej6o">Muhammad recently surpassing Noah</a> as the most popular boys’ name.

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump heads to China this week for a highly anticipated visit with President Xi Jinping, on a mission to rebalance the United States relationship with China while prioritizing &#8220;reciprocity and fairness,&#8221; a White House official shared on a call with reporters on Sunday afternoon.
The president will arrive in China on Wednesday evening, White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly shared Sunday, and on Thursday morning, he will participate in a welcome ceremony and a bilateral meeting with President Xi Jinping. That afternoon, Trump will tour the Temple of Heavens with President Xi, and that evening, he will participate in a state banquet.
On Friday morning, Trump will participate in a bilateral tea and working lunch with President Xi before Trump and his delegation return home. The White House expects to host President Xi and his wife, Madam Peng Liyuan, for a reciprocal visit in D.C. later this year.
During the Sunday afternoon call with reporters, Kelly stressed that Trump&#8217;s meeting with Xi would advance American safety, security, and prosperity with &#8220;a clear eyed view of the economic and security realities of today.&#8221;
&#8220;During this visit, President Trump will continue doing what he has done over the past year,&#8221; Kelly said, &#8220;rebalancing the relationship with China and prioritizing reciprocity and fairness to restore American economic independence.&#8221;
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While the visit will hold &#8220;tremendous symbolic significance,&#8221; Trump never travels for symbolism alone, the White House deputy press secretary stressed.
Trump will be focused on securing deals for Americans, agreements that will &#8220;further rebalance trade with China while putting American workers, farmers, and families 1st and safeguarding US economic strength in national security.&#8221;
&#8220;Topics are expected to include continued work on a U.S. China Board of Trade and U.S. China Board of Investments,&#8221; Kelly said. &#8220;The board of trade will allow the United States and China to manage trade between the government of the United States and government of China across non-sensitive goods. The Board of Investment will provide a government to government forum for discussing investment related issues.&#8221;
&#8220;The two sides will also discuss additional agreements on industry spanning aerospace agriculture and energy,&#8221; she added.
The president will also potentially touch on artificial intelligence in his conversations with Xi, as well as China&#8217;s nuclear program, the war with Iran, and more, Trump officials shared Sunday afternoon.
Trump has already promised that he will talk to Xi about the plight of Jimmy Lai, a Catholic media tycoon unjustly imprisoned by the Chinese government, and Pastor Ezra Jin, also unjustly imprisoned. The Daily Wire first reported Friday that the White House is monitoring Chinese persecution of Christians and religious minority groups in China, according to a letter sent to senators from the State Department.

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WASHINGTON—The White House today launched a website that helps expectant mothers locate pregnancy centers and learn about health and wellness, a Mother&#8217;s Day gift to both the pro-life and Make America Healthy Again movements, The Daily Wire can first report.
Moms.gov addresses &#8220;the needs of mothers and fathers who face difficult or unexpected pregnancies and [ensures] the wellbeing of mothers and the health of American families,&#8221; the White House said in a statement. The move is a direct rebuke to the Biden administration, which in 2022 launched ReproductiveRights.gov, a controversial site that directed expectant mothers to Planned Parenthood and abortion clinics.
When President Donald Trump returned to the White House, pro-life advocates urged the administration to promote abortion alternatives.
The new website does that and more. An expectant mother who accesses the site can search for pregnancy care centers or federally qualified health centers near her and quickly locate the nearest center. The Daily Wire used the tool and found up to 50 options offered within a 50-mile radius, many of them pregnancy care centers that offer ultrasounds and other services.
Pro-abortion advocates have vilified pregnancy centers for decades, <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2019/07/17/crisis-pregnancy-center-planned-parenthood/">arguing that</a> their &#8220;only purpose is to misinform, shame, and deter anyone seeking safe, legal abortion care.” But pregnancy care centers offer clothing, diapers, car seats, and many other resources to expectant mothers and fathers. Many pregnancy centers offer advice or literature on how to get a job, how to behave in a professional manner or capacity, how to care for children, or how to leave an abusive relationship. And these centers frequently offer ultrasounds, which are <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24463667/">proven</a> to help mothers choose not to abort their unborn children.
In the months before and after the Supreme Court&#8217;s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, pro-abortion vandals attacked almost 100 pregnancy centers around the United States with firebombings, vandalism, arson, smashed windows, graffiti, and more. The violence against pregnancy centers was so extreme that the Department of Homeland Security <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22068133-dhs-memo/">issued a memo</a> the day the Supreme Court overturned Roe, warning that more violence should be expected.
Moms.gov also includes information on the new dietary guidelines issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, as well as nutrition information for expectant mothers, information on Trump Accounts, Trump RX offerings for those trying or hoping to conceive, and links to pregnancy recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
As the American birthrate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/america-is-on-track-to-literally-die-off-new-fertility-data-warns">plummets</a> to record lows, the Trump administration has prioritized supporting mothers as part of its effort to encourage Americans to have more children.
The White House has partnered with donors to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-accounts-get-overwhelming-response-in-tax-day-filings">seed Trump Accounts</a> with $1,000 for every new enrollee — a promise that led 5 million children to be enrolled as of Tax Day, according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. First Lady Melania Trump last month <a href="https://www.opm.gov/news/news-releases/opm-partners-with-first-lady-and-hhs/">partnered</a> with the Office of Personnel Management and Department of Health and Human Services to expand flexibility and leave for foster and adoptive parents in the federal workforce.
This is a strong contrast to the Biden administration, whose embrace of abortion was recently revealed to be more extreme than previously thought. A Justice Department report released last month detailed how Biden officials relied on information gathered from radical pro-abortion groups to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-biden-partnered-with-abortion-activists-to-track-and-imprison-pro-lifers?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=BREAKING%3A+How+Biden+Partnered+With+Abortion+Activists+To+Track+And+Imprison+Pro-Lifers">track and prosecute</a> peaceful pro-life protesters. That report also revealed that top Biden lawyers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-biden-doj-lawyers-fantasized-about-prosecuting-catholic-nuns-emails-show">fantasized</a> about prosecuting Catholic nuns and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/explosive-report-reveals-the-biden-administrations-disdain-for-religious-pro-life-activists?author=Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Explosive+Report+Reveals+The+Biden+Administration%E2%80%99s+Disdain+For+Religious+Pro-Life+Activists">denigrated</a> religious, pro-life Americans as &#8220;culty.&#8221;

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced the birth of her second child on Thursday and shared an update along with a photo of her and the new baby.
&#8220;On May 1st, Viviana aka &#8216;Vivi&#8217; joined our family, and our hearts instantly exploded with love,&#8221; Leavitt said in an Instagram post. &#8220;She is perfect and healthy, and her big brother is joyfully adjusting to life with his new baby sister. We are enjoying every moment in our blissful newborn bubble.&#8221;
In late April, Leavitt postponed her maternity leave to hold a last-minute press briefing following the White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner shooting.
&#8220;Thank you to everyone who reached out with prayers during my pregnancy — I truly felt them throughout the entire experience. God is Good,&#8221; she said on social media.
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Senate Republicans may use a niche procedural tool to push through $1 billion in Secret Service security upgrades, including funding tied to the completion of the White House ballroom construction project.
On Monday, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) released an immigration and border patrol funding bill that includes taxpayer funding for security enhancements. <a href="https://www.grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/reconciliation_-_senate_judiciary_committee_title.pdf">The legislation</a> specifies funding for &#8220;security adjustments and upgrades,&#8221; including projects within the White House perimeter fence to support Secret Service enhancements tied to the East Wing Modernization Project.
President Trump, who previously said the ballroom would be privately funded through donors, defended the project&#8217;s rising cost on Truth Social. 
&#8220;The only reason the cost has changed is because, after deep rooted studies, it is approximately twice the size, and a far higher quality, than the original proposal, which would not have been adequate to handle the necessary events, meetings, and even future Inaugurations,&#8221; <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116527410501835336">Trump wrote.</a> &#8220;The original price was 200 Million Dollars, the double sized, highest quality completed project will be something less than 400 Million Dollars.&#8221;
The proposal is part of a broader Republican-led <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/senate-republicans-seek-1-billion-for-secret-service-upgrades-including-trumps-2026-05-05/">$72 billion package</a> to fund ICE, Border Patrol, and the Department of Homeland Security through the end of Trump’s term after Democrats shut down DHS over immigration enforcement. The plan includes $19 billion for border patrol personnel, $7.5 billion for ICE investigations, and about $31 billion for immigration enforcement, according to Reuters.
Republicans are expected to advance the measure through budget reconciliation, an obscure legislative process that would let them pass it with a simple majority and bypass a Democrat filibuster in the Senate. Reconciliation comes with the trade-off of being limited to provisions that directly affect federal spending or revenue — a test the $72 billion package, including its $1 billion in Secret Service upgrades, would need to satisfy.
The push comes amid heightened security concerns after multiple assassination attempts targeting Trump, including a recent incident at the White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner. A White House spokesperson <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/rcna343637">told NBC News</a> that the funding would ensure the Secret Service has the resources required to &#8220;fully and completely harden the White House complex.&#8221;
The funding, which Republicans hope to pass before the midterms, would advance key priorities for the president as the party faces an increasing likelihood of losing at least one of its congressional majorities. 
Democrats have already begun to push back on the package, especially on the inclusion of funding for the ballroom.
&#8220;Just flagging that now everyone gets an up or down vote on the ballroom!&#8221; Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI)<a href="https://x.com/brianschatz/status/2051509964217491472?s=20"> said on social media.</a>

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The U.S. Secret Service said Monday it is investigating an officer-involved shooting near the White House.
The shooting occurred at 15th Street and Independence Avenue in Washington, D.C., which is about one mile from the White House.
&#8220;One individual was shot by law enforcement; their condition is currently unknown,&#8221; a Secret Service <a href="https://x.com/SecretSvcSpox/status/2051394006488084815?s=20">spokesperson said in a statement.</a>
The incident resulted from a confrontation between an armed individual and Secret Service Police.
Metropolitan Police said the scene of the shooting was secure, but urged people to avoid the area due to road closures. 

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President Trump was <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyKh2EYGUDg">giving remarks</a> at a small business summit in the East Room of the White House at the time.
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WASHINGTON—Thanks to a new executive order backed by first lady Melania Trump, federal employees who foster or adopt children will now receive new benefits, according to an internal White House email obtained by The Daily Wire.
The White House Management Office informed Executive Office of the President (EOP) staff on Friday that under the Family and Medical Leave Act, employees who foster or adopt a child can receive up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave, flexible work schedules, and &#8220;other workplace accommodations at the discretion of component leadership.&#8221;
Many of these benefits were first established during President Donald Trump&#8217;s first term and continued under former President Joe Biden, but officials say the new order clarifies and expands how they can be used.
The renewed focus comes as part of the first lady&#8217;s &#8220;Fostering the Future&#8221; initiative, developed alongside the Office of Personnel Management and the Administration for Children and Families at the Department of Health and Human Services.
A White House official told The Daily Wire that the order is designed to remove barriers for federal workers seeking to foster or adopt.
“Federal workers looking to adopt or foster a child no longer need to worry that their work would delay or prevent a child from being with a loving family,&#8221; the official shared. &#8220;Their responsibility as a parent or caregiver doesn’t happen all at once. He or she may need one day here for a court visit and another day there for a doctor’s appointment. Delaying any of these things means that one more kid isn’t being reunified with their family or finding the next best place to belong and be cared for.”
The policy builds on the first lady&#8217;s initiative. According to the internal email, Melania Trump coordinated with the Office of Personnel Management, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, and the Health Department&#8217;s Administration for Children and Families to &#8220;support foster and adoptive families across the federal workforce.&#8221;
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On Thursday, President Trump signed a proclamation designating May 2026 as National Foster Care Month, calling upon &#8220;all Americans to honor the efforts of those who contribute to our Nation’s foster care system and recommit to improving the lives of those children who depend upon their service.&#8221;
One of the biggest challenges that FLOTUS and her allies face, The Daily Wire has learned, is the need for more caring foster parents and adoptive families.
As The Daily Wire previously reported, the Department of Health and Human Services has partnered with 14 states and Washington, D.C., through the bipartisan &#8220;Home for Every Child&#8221; initiative to increase the number of licensed foster homes. Currently, there are just 57 licensed homes for every 100 children in care.
Participating states, including Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Nebraska, Rhode Island, and Iowa, are working to improve data tracking and reduce barriers in the foster care system, with the goal of reaching a one-to-one ratio.
“When we don’t have enough homes for those children, they get placed in non-traditional settings that are not conducive to long-term growth and development of the child,” Assistant Secretary Alex Adams previously told The Daily Wire. “So we need to increase nationally the ratio of homes to kids.”

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WASHINGTON — ABC is remaining silent amid calls from the White House for late night show host Jimmy Kimmel to be fired for joking that Melania Trump looked like an &#8220;expectant widow&#8221; — just days before another would-be assassin tried to kill Donald Trump.
&#8220;I appreciate that so many people are incensed by Kimmel’s despicable call to violence, and normally would not be responsive to anything that he said but, this is something far beyond the pale,&#8221; President Donald Trump said on Monday afternoon. &#8220;Jimmy Kimmel should be immediately fired by Disney and ABC.&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s comments followed a rare statement from his wife, who said on Monday that &#8220;Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country.&#8221;
&#8220;His monologue about my family isn’t comedy — his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America,&#8221; the First Lady said. &#8220;People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate.&#8221;
&#8220;A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Enough is enough. It is time for ABC to take a stand. How many times will ABC’s leadership enable Kimmel’s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community.&#8221;
The Daily Wire has repeatedly reached out to both ABC and Kimmel&#8217;s representatives over the past 24 hours about the White House statements. Neither ABC nor Kimmel&#8217;s team has responded to requests for comment.
The network recently announced its decision to pull &#8220;The Bachelorette&#8221; amid concerns over bachelorette Taylor Frankie Paul and domestic violence videos that surfaced. Years earlier, the network cancelled host Chris Harrison for defending bachelorette contestant Rachael Kirkconnell after photos surfaced of her attending an antebellum-themed party.
Kimmel&#8217;s remarks, however, have not appeared to faze the network, despite aggressive condemnation from the White House.
“Who in their right mind says a wife would be glowing over the potential murder of her beloved husband?” questioned Karoline Leavitt from the briefing room podium on Monday afternoon.
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Kimmel, meanwhile, defended his remarks without apologizing, claiming he was joking about the Trumps&#8217; age difference, mocking the Trumps, and even repeating the joke.
“It was a very light roast joke about the fact that he’s almost 80 and she’s younger than I am,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It was not by any stretch of the definition a call to assassination.”
&#8220;I’ve been very vocal for many years speaking out against gun violence, in particular,&#8221; he said during his stand-up bit. &#8220;But I understand that the First Lady had a stressful experience over the weekend &#8230; and probably every weekend is pretty stressful in that house. And also, I agree that hateful and violent rhetoric is something we should reject. I do. And I think a great place to start to dial that back would be to have a conversation with your husband about it.”
Kimmel&#8217;s defense prompted a scathing response from Steven Cheung, the White House Director of Communications.
&#8220;Jimmy Kimmel is a sh*t human being for: #1. Making a disgusting joke about assassinating the President #2. Doubling down on that joke instead of doing the decent thing by apologizing,&#8221; Cheung said.
&#8220;ABC needs to fire him immediately and he should be shunned for the rest of his life,&#8221; he said.
ABC has still not responded to requests for comment from The Daily Wire.

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President Donald Trump remains confident in Secret Service leadership and believes agents did &#8220;an excellent job&#8221; protecting him, top administration officials, and White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner attendees from a gunman who opened fire on Saturday night, the White House said.
The White House released a statement on Monday morning praising the Secret Service for its quick action in stopping gunman Cole Tomas Allen before he made it into the ballroom where over 2,500 people had gathered for the high-profile event at the Washington Hilton. A White House official <a href="https://x.com/alaynatreene/status/2048741119270195482">said</a> that the president is &#8220;standing by the leadership of Secret Service, and President Trump has said he personally thinks they did an excellent job neutralizing the shooter and moving the President, First Lady, Vice President and cabinet to safety.&#8221;
The Secret Service has faced criticism from some people after Allen opened fire inside the hotel, throwing the White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner into chaos and confusion. Video footage showed Allen running through a security checkpoint inside the hotel before he was quickly neutralized by agents. Allen shot one agent, who was protected by a bulletproof vest. No one else was injured.
In a 1,000-word manifesto, Allen criticized the Secret Service and claimed there was &#8220;no damn security&#8221; at the hotel before the White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner. Allen checked into the Washington Hilton one day before he attempted to take out the president and top Trump administration officials.
Saturday night&#8217;s shooting has added to scrutiny of the Secret Service that has been brewing since Trump was shot at his Butler, Pennsylvania, rally in July of 2024. The president has also been critical of his protection following the Butler assassination attempt, but on Saturday night, Trump said the Secret Service did exactly what it was supposed to do when Allen attempted to get into the ballroom.
&#8220;The room was very, very secure,&#8221; Trump said, adding, &#8220;The reaction time was great. Those guys had their guns drawn literally by the time he was there, they were shooting. I thought they were very impressive.&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s Chief of Staff Susie Wiles will meet with Secret Service and Homeland Security Department leadership this week to discuss the president&#8217;s protection, the White House said.
&#8220;The meeting will discuss the processes and procedures that worked to stop Saturday’s attempt, while exploring additional options to ensure all relevant components are doing everything possible to secure the many major events planned for President Trump in the months ahead as he gears up to celebrate America 250,&#8221; a Trump administration official added.
The gunman wrote in his manifesto that he was targeting Trump and high-ranking administration officials, but he added that he was also willing to kill anyone who was attending the dinner.
&#8220;I would still go through most everyone here to get to the targets if it were absolutely necessary (on the basis that most people *chose* to attend a speech by a pedophile, rapist, and traitor, and are thus complicit) but I really hope it doesn’t come to that,&#8221; Allen wrote.

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Republicans in Congress are pushing to approve legal authority for the White House’s privately-backed ballroom project, which is facing a major court challenge.
There was renewed interest and support for the ballroom, including from Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), following the attempted assassination of Trump administration officials at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night. A district court judge recently said that Congress needs to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/27/will-congress-back-ballroom-now/">clear a legal path</a> for the project to proceed, according to The Washington Post.
Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) explained Sunday on X that we would push for “unanimous consent” on a proposal that would grant “express approval” for ballroom construction, as it would be built where the East Wing used to be.
“It is an embarrassment to the strongest nation on earth that we cannot host gatherings in our nation’s capital, including ones attended by our President, without the threat of violence and attempted assassinations,” Sheehy said.
“There is no place for political violence in America. Unfortunately, it seems, too many people believe trying to kill our President and members of our government is acceptable,” he added, saying that presidents “should be able to host events in a secure area without attendees worrying about their safety.”
In the House of Representatives, Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) posted Sunday that he’s introducing the “Build the Ballroom Act” for “explicit statutory authority” for the ballroom plan.
“While the lawsuits attempting to stop this privately-funded gift to the country are nonsense, last night makes it clear that we need it — and we need it now,” Fine stated. “I look forward to Democrats repudiating their violent rhetoric against President Trump by cosponsoring and supporting this bill.”
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) also posted that she is drafting a bill to get the project across the finish line.
“I don’t believe congressional approval is required for the project, but if it’ll keep activist judges on the sideline, so be it,” she wrote.
The Justice Department asked the National Trust for Historic Preservation to end its lawsuit after the incident, which left a Secret Service agent shot at the Washington Hilton.
“Enough is enough. Your client should voluntarily dismiss this frivolous lawsuit today in light of last night’s assassination attempt on President Trump,” Brett Shumate, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division, wrote Sunday, saying that he plans to “move to dissolve the injunction and dismiss the case in light of last night’s extraordinary events” if the case was not dropped by Monday at 9 a.m.
The Daily Wire reached out to the group for comment, but they did not immediately respond.
“The White House ballroom will ensure the safety and security of the President for decades to come and prevent future assassination attempts on the President at the Washington Hilton,” he added.
The preservation group argues that there needs to be more input into the project before it begins.
“The National Trust remains committed to honoring the historic significance of the White House, advocating for our collective role as stewards, and demonstrating how broad consultation, including with the American people, results in a better overall outcome,” National Trust President and CEO Carol Quillen said after an April 11 federal circuit court of appeals order in the case that stopped construction.

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