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A loudly supportive crowd greeted President Donald Trump as he delivered a wide-ranging speech Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference that lasted nearly 90 minutes. Here are five of the president’s key topics at the nation’s largest annual convergence of conservatives. 1. Proof of His Conservatism At the 2016 CPAC, Trump didn’t speak. But…

President Donald Trump’s Cabinet is more conservative than President Ronald Reagan’s Cabinet was in the 1980s, a top official with the American Conservative Union declared during a Thursday panel discussion at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Addressing fellow panelists and hundreds of conservative activists gathered at the annual conference, Dan Schneider, executive director of the…

Congressional investigators are struggling to track down a source that allegedly provided some of the most salacious claims made in an anti-Trump dossier cited by federal officials as reason to begin spying on one or more of the president's associates. House and Senate committees investigating Russian interference in the presidential campaign have tried for months…

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the Justice Department is investigating the accuracy of information the FBI submitted before the 2016 election about a "dossier" damaging to Donald Trump to obtain a warrant to surveil a campaign adviser. “That will be investigated and looked at," Sessions said in an interview Sunday. Maria Bartiromo, host of Fox’s…

Armstrong Williams is a political commentator, entrepreneur, nationally syndicated columnist, and host of “The Armstrong Williams Show.” He’s also a passionate supporter of President Donald Trump and close friend to Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson. We spoke to him about his work in the media business, Black History Month, and Trump’s relationship with…

For Clark County, Georgia, Sheriff Ira Edwards Jr., the danger sanctuary cities pose to communities became overwhelmingly clear during a recent conversation he had with a federal judge. “You delivered. The National Sheriffs’ Association gives your first year an A-plus for law enforcement issues,” @NationalSheriff says. “I was very, very surprised when I was in…

Most federal employees—99.7 percent, in fact—get a “performance based” raise each year under the government’s pay system. “We’ve set up a $1 billion fund [to give] managers the ability to pay people whose performance merits the increase,” @MickMulvaneyOMB says. President Donald Trump wants to change that as part of his new budget plan, in keeping…

President Donald Trump is proposing a 10-year spending plan that never produces a balanced budget, and increases deficit spending by $7.2 trillion over the next decade. The White House unveiled the $4.4 trillion fiscal year 2019 budget plan on Monday. “The first message [is] you don’t have to spend it all, but if you do,…

The bulk of the money for President Donald Trump’s proposed $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan wouldn’t come from federal funds, and the plan focuses heavily on deregulation. While Republicans support deregulation and Democrats back infrastructure spending, Trump could fall short of attaining the bipartisan backing he hopes for on the bill. “It’s politically tough. Democrats may…

The U.S. will “never rest” until it finishes the job of defeating the Islamic State, the brutal terrorist army in Iraq and Syria, President Donald Trump said Thursday in remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast. “It’s much harder to stab someone in the back after you’ve prayed for them.”—@SenatorLankford “For years ISIS had brutally tortured…