The White House has indicated a desire to slash 37 percent of funding from the budget of the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development, which currently has a combined budget of just over $50 billion.
In footage that aired Tuesday on MSNBC, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told a reporter for NBC’s “Nightly News” that President Donald Trump’s budget proposal was “dead on arrival” given cuts included to the State Department. “It’s dead on arrival,” Graham
It seems clear enough that the Trump administration is not pleased with the conduct of the U.N. Human Rights Council. According to the ever-popular roster of unnamed current and former U.S. officials, the administration is considering a complete withdrawal from the HRC, reports Politico.
A report generated by the State Department on the threat posed by leaks to the media was leaked to Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin, according to his commentary published on Friday.
Department of Homeland Security John Kelly said the U.S. military would not be used in America’s efforts to deport criminal aliens. He also stated there would be no mass deportations. His comments came during a press conference in Mexico City where he and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met with their counterparts.
A group of lawmakers is planning to request a congressional investigation of a $418 million U.S. weapons sale to Kenya approved by the Obama administration on its last day in office.
The Washington Post reported that a New York-based think tank is seeking permission for North Korean representatives to visit the U.S.
TEL AVIV — Amid the news-making claims about Donald Trump and Russia emanating in recent months from intelligence agencies led by Obama administration appointees, it is instructive to recall the results of a damning investigation by House Republicans which recently found that Obama’s Defense Department routinely politicized intelligence to fit certain worldviews.
A former Georgia Republican congressman, who was one of President Donald Trump’s strongest campaign surrogates, told Breitbart News that the President needs to reform how The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the State Department distribute foreign aid.
Cvetin Chilimanov, vice president of Stop Operation Soros, called into Friday’s Breitbart News Daily from Macedonia to discuss billionaire George Soros’ efforts to influence Macedonian politics.
TEL AVIV — Law enforcement and intelligence officials previously privately told the House Committee on Homeland Security that the U.S. screening process for refugees contains inherent vulnerabilities and that a lack of information makes background checks for potential refugees difficult to trust.
Writing at the Guardian newspaper, global warming advocate Bill McKibben suggested President Donald Trump and White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon want a terrorist massacre on American soil to “tilt things their way.”
Eliott Abrams, who was deputy national security adviser in the George W. Bush administration, has been removed from the list of candidates for Deputy Secretary of State.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, will oppose Elliott Abrams if President Donald Trump nominates him to serve as the Deputy Secretary of State, a senior aide to Paul confirmed to Breitbart News late Monday night.
The Republican-led Senate has confirmed Rex Tillerson as President Donald Trump’s secretary of state.
The problem goes much further than one official. Trump’s opponents are burrowed throughout the federal bureaucracy, and at senior as well as junior levels.
Jonathan Greenblatt, the National Director and CEO of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), has come out forcefully against President Donald Trump’s temporarily halt on refugees while the government can revamp its flawed security screening process, calling the executive action a “heartless attack on refugees.”
TEL AVIV – Amid the furor over President Donald Trump’s executive order temporarily halting refugees while the government can revamp its flawed security screening process, it may be instructive to recall that President Obama in 2011 reportedly quietly suspended the Iraq refugee program for six months over terrorism fears.
TEL AVIV — Immigration lawyers from groups financed by billionaire George Soros, a champion of open border policies, were signatories to a lawsuit filed Saturday to block President Donald Trump’s executive order halting visas for 90 days for “immigrants and non-immigrants” from Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Libya, Yemen, Iran, and Iraq.
According to Reuters, a “factional” debate is under way within the Trump administration over adding the Muslim Brotherhood to the State Department and Treasury lists of foreign terrorist organizations.
Bureaucrats at the State Department brought in an additional 526 refugees in the seventeen hours between midnight and 5 p.m. eastern on Thursday.
Today’s Fake News freakout began with a buzzing swarm of headlines about “mass resignations” by the “entire senior level of management officials” at the State Department resigning in some stunning act of protest against President Trump.
The announcement that President Donald Trump would finally approve the long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline, along with the similarly blocked Dakota Access pipeline, could mark the beginning of a major shift in power away from left-wing activists.
Harf will make her Fox News debut on Marcha MacCallum’s program “The First 100 Days,” and she will provide national security and political analysis for Fox News and Fox Business Network for the networks’ daytime and primetime programs, Deadline reports.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Monday that “no decision” has yet been made on relocating the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
The U.S. Department of State referred to the site of Sunday’s Palestinian terror attack against Israeli pedestrians as “Jerusalem,” even though the attack — which killed four Israeli soldiers — occurred in the neighborhood of East Talpiyot, which the Obama administration officially considers a “settlement” in the “occupied” city of “East Jerusalem.”
Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday that some possible foreign policy shifts by the Trump administration would be “explosive.”
The people asked to vacate their posts by the Trump Administration are big Obama donors and political allies. In fact, career diplomats complained about how crass and obvious the “selling of public office” had become by Obama’s second term.
During a March 10, 2015 press conference meant to address the growing controversy surrounding her private email server, Hillary Clinton famously claimed the emails she deleted were “within the scope of my personal privacy” – including messages about her yoga routines,
Exxon’s former CEO Rex Tillerson received a $180 million retirement package, according to the Wall Street Journal, as he prepares for congressional hearings to confirm his nomination as President-elect Donald Trump’s Secretary of State.
TEL AVIV — The Palestinian Authority has been in contact with the Obama administration and European countries about the possibility of bringing another resolution before the UN Security Council for vote before President Obama leaves office next month, a senior PA official told Breitbart Jerusalem.
The US has forsaken Israel, and the Jewish state can now place its trust only in God, Israel’s Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef said Wednesday, as Jerusalem and Washington continued to face off over Friday’s United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements.
CNN’s correspondent in Israel, Oren Liebermann, reported Wednesday that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech at the State Department had “missed the mark” if Kerry’s intent had been to reach Israeli viewers and convince them that lame duck President Barack Obama was serious about peace.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to Facebook on Tuesday to provide context about the historical, religious and legal Jewish connections to the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem, lands baselessly declared occupied Palestinian territory in last week’s anti-Israel UN resolution.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday it viewed a U.S. decision to ease restrictions on weapons supplies to Syrian rebels as a “hostile act” which threatened the safety of Russian warplanes and military personnel, the RIA news agency reported.
Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney and SiriusXM host Alex Marlow delved into this week’s terror attacks in Berlin and Ankara on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily.
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, which is helping Facebook determine whether certain news stories are “disputed,” recently partnered with the State Department to host a training workshop for reporters.
Media reports suggest that President-elect Donald Trump is being pushed to nominate Richard Haass to work as the top deputy to proposed Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. But Haass would be a poor choice for at least eight reasons:
State Department spokesman John Kirby and Associated Press (AP) reporter Brad Klapper clashed Wednesday in several testy exchanges about the Obama administration’s Syria policy.
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “At This Hour,” State Department Spokesperson Admiral John Kirby (Ret.) stated that the failure in Syria “is not on the leadership of the United States, or even other members of the international community.” Kirby said, “[I]t’s
