President Donald Trump’s nominee for religious freedom ambassador has languished without a confirmation hearing for eight months while Christians are persecuted around the globe and antisemitism is on the rise.
Democrats fixated on an encrypted group chat during Rep. Mike Waltz’s (R-FL) confirmation hearing for U.N. Ambassador on Tuesday, reviving months-old allegations that a Trump-era Signal thread involving a journalist and sensitive military information constituted a breach, despite no confirmed evidence that classified material was shared.
Michael Waltz, President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, testified Tuesday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, outlining his vision to overhaul the UN’s bureaucracy, defend U.S. allies, and reassert American leadership on the global stage.
Kimberly Guilfoyle, President Trump’s nominee to serve as Ambassador to Greece, pledged at her Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday to deepen defense cooperation, expand energy partnerships, and counter growing influence from China and Turkey.
Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released a statement on Saturday after U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, praising the move as making “America safer, in addition to the Israelis, and the world more broadly.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio struck out at what he calls the U.S. “foreign aid industrial complex” during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, despairing at the inability of USAID to deliver funds where they are needed most.
Protestors considering disrupting Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s Tuesday Senate testimony might find themselves behind bars if they do so, Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID) told Breitbart News exclusively.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is demanding answers from Joel Rayburn, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, over his former boss’s controversial admission to lying to the president over the number of troops in Syria.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called on fellow Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez (NJ) to resign following his conviction.
The FBI issued a public alert for Majid Dastjani Farahani, an Iranian agent allegedly plotting to kill Trump administration officials.
Islamist Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appeared to celebrate the indictment of Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) on corruption charges in remarks this week suggesting that his removal from the chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee would make it easier for Turkey to purchase American F-16 fighter jets.
President Joe Biden’s nominee to become ambassador to Jordan says she supports American taxpayers funding border security measures in the Middle Eastern country even as the White House has abandoned building a border wall along the United States-Mexico border.
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, fractured his shoulder while rushing to the U.S. Senate floor to vote on Tuesday, according to a report.
en. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) has already become a thorn in President Joe Biden’s side over several policies and decisions.
Both Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, notably including chairman Bob Menendez (D-NJ), expressed mounting frustration Tuesday with the Biden administration after Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin refused to answer questions about the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Ron Johnson (R-WI) blasted Secretary of State Antony Blinken as delusional at a Senate panel hearing Tuesday for painting a rosy picture of the Biden administration’s fatally flawed withdrawal from Afghanistan in written testimony.
Senate Republicans on Tuesday questioned Secretary of State Antony Blinken on who is really in charge of making decisions at the White House amid multiple feeds of President Biden being cut off by a “puppeteer” in mid-conversation at public events.
Republicans are planning to capitalize on their first shot to grill Secretary of State Antony Blinken over President Joe Biden’s botched U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan when he testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Monday afternoon and the panel’s Senate counterpart Tuesday.
Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) conceded that former President Donald Trump “took bold and aggressive” action against Communist China.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will interview Antony Blinken, President-Elect Joe Biden’s nominee for secretary of state, on Tuesday afternoon. Blinken served on Biden’s side for decades. Sen. James Risch (R-ID) will preside over the 2 p.m. confirmation hearing as
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) joined Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) in announcing Tuesday that the government of Russia denied him a visa to enter the country as part of a bipartisan congressional delegation.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) revealed Monday that the government of Russia denied him a visa to enter the country as part of a bipartisan congressional delegation.
WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo repudiated the crackdown on religious freedom in China at the hands of communist leader Xi Jinping in remarks Tuesday and Wednesday, stressing that the persecution of Muslims and Christians in the Asian country has reached “historic proportions.”
U.S. President Donald Trump “may have avoided getting entrapped into a bad deal” by refusing to accept dictator Kim Jong-un’s scant denuclearization offer in exchange for major sanctions relief at the second unprecedented summit with North Korea earlier this year, a renowned expert on negotiations with the rogue regime told lawmakers on Tuesday.
GOP Sen. Marco Rubio, who has remained focused on foreign policy during his time in office, says he is uncertain of whether Heather Nauert, President Trump’s pick to be U.N. Ambassador, can handle the job.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) last week tried to block billions in U.S. taxpayer funds from going to the Afghan military and police forces unless its’ units stopped sexually abusing young boys, but he was opposed by Senate Foreign Relations Committee leaders.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday that the U.S. government had reason to believe North Korea was still producing fissile material despite vowing the complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
Several Monday conversations with President Donald Trump, a meeting with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, and reassurances about Afghanistan led Sen. Rand Paul to announce Monday evening that he would vote to support Pompeo as the next Secretary of State.
Three Democrat senators now say they support Mike Pompeo for secretary of state: Sens. Heidi Heitkamp (ND), Joe Manchin (WV), and Joe Donnelly (IN).
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee announced Thursday morning it will hold a vote for CIA Director Mike Pompeo at 5 p.m. to confirm him as secretary of state.
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.
Former Vice President Joe Biden admitted that President Donald Trump could succeed in his peace talks with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, noting that former President Barack Obama never reached that point in diplomacy with the rogue nation.
The top lawmakers on a Senate panel, in a rare show of bipartisanship, urged the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to launch an investigation into “credible allegations” of drug trafficking activities linked to the regime of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro that may be fueling the drug overdose epidemic in America.
“Health attacks” against American government personnel in Cuba likely began near the end of the Obama administration in November 2016, almost a year after the former president’s move to restore diplomatic ties with the oppressive communist nation formally took effect, U.S. Department of State (DOS) officials told lawmakers.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is developing networks across North Africa that seek to attack the continent, Europe, and the United States while it loses control of its so-called caliphate in Iraq and Syria, a top U.S. State Department counterterrorism official warned lawmakers.
Dr. Sebastian Gorka, recently signed as a Fox News contributor, joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s Tuesday hearing to review the presidential launch authority for nuclear weapons.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee holds a hearing to examine presidential authority over the use of nuclear weapons
The Trump administration has not authorized any new missions in Niger since taking office in January, defense officials tell Breitbart News.
“Given his severe case of short man syndrome and the fact he would have lost his primary, it’s not surprising Corker is seeking attention and affirmation from the Beltway elites,” a senior Republican aide working for a Senator on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee told Breitbart News.
The United States must take “bold action” by the end of 2017 to prevent Christianity in Iraq — the cradle of Christendom — from disappearing in just “a few short years,” warns former Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA).
