Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) suggested on Sunday he would not back Vice President Vance as a hypothetical candidate for president in 2028.
In an interview on ABC News's "This Week," Paul cited his opposition to the Trump administration's tariff and trade policy when asked whether he sees Vance as the so-called heir apparent to succeed President Trump as the GOP front-runner for president in 2028.
"I think there needs to be representatives in the Republican Party who still believe international trade is good, who still believe in free market capitalism, who still believe in low taxes," Paul said, when asked about some Republicans pointing to Vance as a likely candidate next election. |
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White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said Sunday that the United States is "going to see the biggest tax refund season of all time" in 2026. "There's so much good news in the new year, because you're going to see the biggest tax refund season of all time. The 'big, beautiful bill' was passed in July. You know, the IRS didn't have time to change all the forms, and so now everybody's going to get huge tax refunds if they were overtime workers, if they're seniors, if they — you know — had tip income," Hassett told "Fox News Sunday" anchor Shannon Bream. |
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Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Sunday that all material featuring President Trump in files linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein will be released.
"The White House has said that President Trump is included in the files. Can you guarantee that every mention and every photo of President Trump in the Epstein files will be released?" NBC News's Kristen Welker asked Blanche on "Meet the Press."
"Yes, yes, I've said it three, four times now, we've said it before, and President Trump has said it repeatedly since before he was elected. And since he was elected, all summer long, he said the same thing, 'I have nothing to hide,'" Blanche said |
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| Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said Sunday that former President Clinton "should address" questions surrounding files linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
"Former President Bill Clinton is featured prominently in the first batch, as I was just discussing now. To be very clear, NBC News does not know the full context behind these images, and simply being in the Epstein files doesn't imply any criminal wrongdoing, but does Clinton owe the public an explanation about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein?" NBC News's Kristen Welker asked Kaine on "Meet the Press." |
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Sunday called for an investigation into the heavily redacted files related to Jeffrey Epstein released on Friday, saying it appears the Justice Department has fallen "short of what the law requires."
In an interview on ABC News's "This Week," the Democratic leader noted that the Epstein Files Transparency Act — whose 30-day deadline for the federal government to release its Epstein files expired on Friday — included narrow parameters specifying what information could be redacted.
But, he said, "It does appear, of course, that this initial documents' release is inadequate. It falls short of what the law requires." |
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Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) said he would leave it to the American people to decide whether they blame Republicans for the lapse in their enhanced Obamacare subsidies at the end of the year, but he defended GOP efforts to strike a deal on the issue in recent weeks.
In an interview Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union," the conservative senator was asked if he shares Sen. Lisa Murkowski's (R-Alaska) view that Republicans could pay the price politically if they let the COVID-era tax credits for Affordable Care Act marketplace plans expire at the end of the year.
"We will allow the American people to be able to make decisions on that, where they see where the problem actually originated from," Lankford said in the interview, when asked if Murkowski was right that about the political risk of letting the subsidies lapse. |
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Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said on Sunday that Democrats are considering various avenues of recourse after the Trump administration released a trove of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein that included heavy redactions.
In an interview on CNN's "State of the Union," the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee said members of his party are still weighing their options but said, "It's not clear that we have got standing" to sue the Trump administration to release the rest of the files, when asked about a potential lawsuit. |
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Sunday that he wishes for a Russia-Ukraine war peace deal "that would prevent a third invasion," likely referencing the 2014 and 2022 Russian incursions on Ukrainian territory.
"Listen, we've made great progress between Ukraine, Europe and the United States to come up with a proposal that would end the war. We're not going to evict every Russian out of Ukraine, I understand that, but I want a deal that would prevent a third invasion," Graham told NBC News's Kristen Welker on "Meet the Press." |
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