Multiple establishment media outlets have now confirmed the reporting in Peter Schweizer’s latest bestseller, “Secret Empires,” about Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s and his wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao’s, deep financial ties to China.
Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) held a press conference Tuesday on Capitol Hill to announce an effort to get the Senate to craft, debate, and pass a spending bill and confirm President Donald Trump’s 271 outstanding nominations before the scheduled August recess — or stay in Washington until the work gets done.
Coal baron Don Blankenship is surging in West Virginia’s GOP senatorial primary on the eve of the May 8 election, with an anti-Mitch McConnell message that’s resonating with voters.
Evan Jenkins falsely claimed on Monday that President Donald Trump endorsed him for the West Virginia Senate Republican primary.
New York magazine’s Margaret Hartmann delves deeper into a growing ethics scandal involving President Trump’s Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and her shipping mogul father, James Chao, whose business relies heavily on partnerships with China’s communist regime.
President Trump’s Depart of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Elaine Chao has come under ethical scrutiny for appearing with her shipping mogul father in numerous Chinese media interviews, including at least one that appears to have been conducted at the DOT and prominently features the DOT flag in the background.
President Donald Trump spoke out against Republican Senate primary candidate Don Blankenship in West Virginia, urging Republicans to vote for either of the two other Republican candidates.
Peter Schweizer, author of the new best-selling book “Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends,” joined SiriusXM host Rebecca Mansour on Monday’s Breitbart News Tonight to discuss his research into the deep business ties between the Chinese communist government and the family of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s wife, President Trump’s Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao.
A report suggested that Republicans might reveal in the next few weeks a new push to repeal Obamacare before the 2018 midterm election.
Fox News called out the establishment candidate Rep. Evan Jenkins (R-WV) on Monday for releasing a campaign ad that featured a doctored photo of West Virginia Attorney Patrick Morrisey with Hillary Clinton.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) in-laws have ordered 10 massive cargo ships from the Chinese government since the senator’s wife Elaine Chao became Secretary of Transportation. The deep financial ties between the Chao family’s shipping business Foremost Group and the Chinese regime were first revealed in the #1 New York Times bestseller “Secret Empires.”
President Donald Trump endorsed the idea of keeping the Senate in Washington, DC seven days a week to get his political and judicial nominees confirmed if Democrats continued obstructing the confirmation votes.
Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell acknowledged that President Donald Trump had a legitimate gripe with the U.S. Senate for the manner in which the appointments for administration are facing confirmation. However, McConnell said
Parkland school shooting survivor Kyle Kashuv told Breitbart News he is concerned that Republicans are too focused on playing defense to actually seize the opportunity to “grow the Second Amendment.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R, KY) has torpedoed President Donald Trump’s plan to cut $60 billion in federal spending, despite a promise to open a “discussion” on the cuts.
Family Research Council President Tony Perkins and 49 other international religious liberty leaders are urging Senate leaders to confirm President Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo.
Ten Lt. Governors sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Wednesday, urging the senator to consider legislation that would give states greater flexibility to hire private contractors to better service entitlement programs and benefit state taxpayers.
Monday on CNN’s “The Lead,” host Jake Tapper said Congress was ignoring President Donald Trump’s tweets like one would a child who was “pitching a fit.” Tapper said, “Over the weekend, the president meeting with individuals such as Don King, Judge Jeanine
New York Times best-selling author and populist conservative columnist Ann Coulter says former voters of President Trump “should put the fear of God in him,” as the border wall — the central promise of his “America First” agenda — remains unbuilt.
Kentucky’s most popular sports radio host is apparently targeting GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and hoping to add to his defeat in his likely upcoming election.
New York Times best-selling author and populist conservative columnist Ann Coulter congratulated Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) after President Trump signed off on the Republicans’ omnibus spending bill that does not include a single provision from his 70-point list of pro-American immigration reforms.
It happened again. Congress let a funding debate come down to the last minute. And once again, Democrats won.
Wednesday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Mark Levin called on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to removed from his leadership post and investigated. Levin said allegations revealed in a piece by The New York Post’s Larry Getlen
Peter Schweizer joined Breitbart News Daily host Alex Marlow on Wednesday to discuss the corruption rampant among America’s imperial political families, especially those bought off by an increasingly brazen and aggressive China.
Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant appointed recent Democrat turned Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith on Wednesday to replace retiring U.S. Senator Thad Cochran over the Republican candidate in the race to replace him.
Lawmakers released the Omnibus spending bill on Monday, which Congress has to pass by Friday to avert a government shutdown.
Four-time New York Times bestselling investigative journalist Peter Schweizer has garnered a reputation for unearthing never-before-revealed facts about how political elites enrich themselves. Here are five China-related revelations Schweizer exposes in his new book “Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends.”
House Speaker Paul Ryan was spotted at the White House on Wednesday, as Congress works on forcing through their massive omnibus spending bill Thursday.
Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute, joined SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight co-hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak on Monday to explain how politicians corruptly monetize political power as detailed in his latest book, Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends.
During a presser on Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) stated that Special Counsel Robert Mueller should be allowed to finish his investigation and that he has “a lot of confidence” in Mueller. McConnell said, “I agree with the
Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute, highlighted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) financial ties to the Chinese government as an example of how politicians monetize political influence while evading financial disclosure regulations.
Chris McDaniel, a candidate to replace retiring Sen. Thad Cochran, urged Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant during the weekend edition of Breitbart News Sunday on SiriusXM to prevent a Republican “bloodbath” and refrain from appointing a Mitch McConnell-approved candidate to the seat.
Larry Getlen at the New York Post reveals more details from Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends, the upcoming book from Government Accountability Institute President and Breitbart Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer.
Legislative Director Marc Short took the White House briefing podium on Friday to call out “historic obstruction” by Democrats for requiring 30 hours of debate over Trump administration nominees at a rate far beyond that which prior administrations faced.
Writing at the Wall Street Journal, Aruna Viswanatha writes that Peter Schweizer’s new book, “Secret Empires,” reports “that China has worked to gain leverage over powerful American politicians by targeting their families with investment opportunities and business deals.”
Keeping maximum pressure on North Korea was again a topic of discussion during Vice President Mike Pence’s closed-door meetings on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump has threatened to veto the mega-omnibus spending bill barreling its way through Congress ahead of the March 23 government funding deadline if it contains a pork pet project for New York and New Jersey that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, wants in the bill.
Just Foreign Policy’s Robert Naiman joined Breitbart News Washington Political Editor Matt Boyle and Deputy Political Editor Amanda House on Breitbart News Saturday to discuss the pending resolution on asserting the War Powers Act to rein in American involvement in Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen.
A bipartisan populist coalition is energizing an effort by Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Chris Murphy (D-CT) to invoke the war powers resolution to stop an illegal U.S. war for which there is no congressional authorization.
National reciprocity for concealed carry was put forward in the Senate on March 1, 2017, and as of today, March 7, 2018, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has remained mum on it.
