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Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) joined the push to cut back former presidents’ federal benefits on Thursday by introducing the Presidential Allowance Modernization Act of 2015.

Carly Fiorina—the only female GOP presidential candidate—fired back after Fox News announced its criteria for candidates in the upcoming presidential debate.

Dr. Ben Carson stole the show at the Georgia Association of Republican County Chairmen.

The bill would provide former presidents with lifetime federal benefits of $200,000 and pay $200,000 per year as an allowance, a total of $400,000 a year. But if a former president were to earn more than $400,000 in a year, the amount would be deducted dollar for dollar.

Tuesday marks 37 days since Hillary Rodham Clinton launched her bid for the White House, but she still hasn’t done a formal sit down interview with national media, nor answered questions from the press.

After a veteran committed suicide in the parking lot of the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Health Care facility earlier this month, more and more VA employees are speaking out about the ongoing problems and inefficient care at the Phoenix VA.

Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) says he’ll oppose giving President Obama fast track trade authority.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) says he is running for president because “the world is falling apart.” But a poll in his state reveals that roughly 60 percent of respondents, who are all South Carolina voters, don’t want Graham to run for president.

Dr. Ben Carson wants every candidate included in GOP debates.

The federal government doesn’t have a reason to give businesses and disaster loans because the riots are isolated to a part of the city, and usually the loans are used for tornados and natural disasters, an expert tells Breitbart News.

GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina joined fellow candidates Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) in criticizing George Stephanopoulos and his donations to the Clinton Foundation.

It has now been 33 days since Hillary Clinton made her White House bid official, yet she still hasn’t done a formal sit-down interview with national media, setting a record for going the longest of any candidate in recent history without doing so.

Zero fast-tracked trade bills have been defeated in 40 years. The Senate plans to move forward with the bill as early as Thursday.

Bill Clinton has done more interviews than Hillary Clinton since her formal presidential announcement, according to Fox News.

If the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 is approved, it would shrink the United States military under the pretense of frugality, namely by “pink slipping” career service members who’ve endured combat. Meanwhile, it could possibly use the military to grant amnesty.

The Republican National Committee is launching a petition “Demand Answers From Hillary Clinton” to bring attention to the fact that the likely Democratic nominee has not answered questions from reporters in weeks.

Multiple media outlets have estimated that Clinton has only answered roughly eight questions from reporters since she officially launched her campaign April 12th.

The members of Congress filed an amicus brief supporting a lawsuit previously filed by 26 states challenging Obama’s action.

Tuesday marks 30 days since Hillary Rodham Clinton kicked off her official presidential bid, but she still has not done a formal sit-down interview with national press, setting a record for the longest-running presidential candidate not to do so, as first reported by Breitbart News.

GOP presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul returned from New Hampshire to Washington D.C. so he could vote Monday evening for a resolution calling for the release of American citizens who are wrongfully imprisoned in Iran.

Unlike Clinton, GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina has been on what CNN coined a “media blitz” introducing herself to voters.

In 2007, Ann Corcoran successfully stopped the State Department from discreetly unloading Muslim refugees in her hometown in Maryland, and now she has written a book directing other Americans to do the same, warning that the immigration is part of a religious obligation to spread Islam.

GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz is adding two key campaign hires, in California and Michigan.

Hillary Clinton officially launched her presidential campaign April 12 and has yet to do a formal sit down interview with national media.

GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina has launched #DomainGate on Twitter, where she is buying up celebrity domains to push her campaign message. She recently redirected HillaryClinton.net to her own campaign website.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a probable GOP presidential candidate, said in order to win the 2016 elections, Republicans need to gain Hispanic voters by pushing a “long, hard path to citizenship” reports the Washington Times.

GREENVILLE, South Carolina – GOP presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said the way to defeat global jihadists is to take a note from Liam Neeson’s line in the movie Taken: “We will look for you. We will find you. And we will kill you.”

GREENVILLE, South Carolina – Gov. Scott Walker, likely GOP presidential candidate, said that, as Governor of Wisconsin, “We did some pretty big things.”

GREENVILLE, South Carolina — Donald Trump, real estate mogul and possible GOP presidential candidate, criticized President Obama’s ability to negotiate a deal with Iran, highlighting Obama’s previous failed terrorist negotiation where Obama traded five terrorists for Bowe Bergdahl.

Donald Trump received loud cheers from the crowd when he spoke at the South Carolina Freedom Summit on Saturday in Greenville. He was one of several current and likely GOP presidential candidates to attend the summit.

Dr. Ben Carson, GOP presidential candidate who launched his campaign Monday, made his way down Main Street in Greenville, South Carolina, to the South Carolina Freedom Summit on Saturday, stopping to chat with voters.

Carly Fiorina, GOP presidential candidate and former Hewlett Packard CEO, spoke about drug use in Iowa on Thursday, adding that she would not enforce federal drug laws on states like Colorado, Alaska, Washington, and Oregon, which have legalized marijuana use, reported The Des Moines Register.

Friday marks 26 days since Clinton formally announced she is running for president, but she has yet to do a formal interview with national media, extending her own record as the presidential candidate who’s waited longest in modern history.

Only two Senate Republicans from the entire conference of 54 members have admitted they read the details of President Barack Obama’s secret Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal as of this time.

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry came out in favor of President Barack Obama’s secret trade deal on Thursday, joining just two of his fellow Republicans in the 2016 hunt—most of the rest are either deathly silent or adamantly opposed—Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

The Muslim immigration warnings offered by Dutch politician Geert Wilders—who was in the facility in Garland, Texas, that was attacked by terrorists last weekend—seem to be coming true.