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Donald Trump doesn’t want to talk about why he canned Kristi Noem, but there are already signs that the firing of Noem is not going to solve the problems at the Department of Homeland Security. A president who is serious about solving the problems at DHS and successfully running his administration would come before the […]

Stories were flying in every direction that Kristi Noem was about to be fired from her job as Homeland Security secretary. Republicans in Congress wanted her fired. White House officials have been intensely pressuring Trump to fire her, and finally, a campaign that has been going on for months came to a conclusion. PoliticusUSA’s news

Things are getting very weird in the Republican U.S. Senate primary runoff election in Texas. After Trump tried to end the runoff by volunteering to host a Bachelor-style reality show where he gets to pick the nominee, either Paxton or Sen. John Cornyn, and the person who doesn’t get the endorsement has to drop out,

Senate Republicans begged Trump for months to endorse Sen. John Cornyn, so that the party could avoid a nasty and expensive runoff. Trump went out of his way to refuse to endorse. Trump went so far as to come to Texas and invite all of the candidates to his event, and then not endorse anyone

When a president has a cabinet that is full of loyalists, many of whom formerly worked at a cable news network that critics refer to as state television, the administration is likely to struggle to speak to and rally a large and diverse nation like the United States. Before Trump plucked him to run the

For a Republican Party that is already facing a difficult midterm election environment, the outcome of the two Texas US Senate primaries could not have gone worse. PoliticusUSA is non-partisan and not beholden to any political party or special interest. Support us by becoming a subscriber. Subscribe now Republicans needed incumbent Sen. John Cornyn to

The worst-kept secret in American politics is that Marco Rubio desperately wants to be president, but he doesn’t possess any of the skills of a potentially adequate president. Rubio first tried to defeat Trump in 2016, and when that didn’t work, to put it mildly, then-Sen. Rubio began his gradual transformation into a super-Trump lapdog,

The Vietnam War is the standard for unpopular wars in US history. Public opinion turned negative on the Vietnam War in July 1967 when 46% of Americans told Gallup that the war was a mistake compared to 44% who said that it was not. The idea that Vietnam was a mistake did not become the

To people who did not vote for Donald Trump, the fact that this president doesn’t seem to care about other human beings is obvious. The second Trump presidency has shown how little Trump cares about every other person not named Trump. PoliticusUSA is non-partisan news and opinion that is 100% independent. Support us by becoming

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was put out in front of the nation as the first American official to brief the country on the Trump administration’s war with Iran. The first person to tell the American people live what the government is doing wasn’t the President Of The United States, but his defense secretary, who