
Warnock on push for voting rights and infrastructure plan: 'We can walk and chew gum at the same time'
CNN
Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock insisted on Sunday that President Joe Biden and other Democrats could tackle both voting rights and infrastructure legislation at the same time, as the White House prepares to make infrastructure the President's next major priority just as GOP-led state legislatures move to restrict voting access.
"We can walk and chew gum at the same time. We've got to work on the infrastructure of our country -- our roads and our bridges -- and we've got to work on the infrastructure of our democracy," the Georgia senator told CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union" when asked whether Biden should prioritize voting rights over infrastructure. "I think the President is engaged on this issue," he added, referring to voting rights. "And when I've talked to him, he's agreed that voting rights are foundational -- that this is the work we have to do."
The US military’s strikes in Iran over the weekend prompted a swift response from across the federal government to react to any fallout, but current and former officials say the administration’s DOGE-driven cuts to a host of agencies have made it harder to grapple with the conflict and prepare for potential retaliation.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe on Wednesday said in a statement that the agency had obtained “a body of credible evidence [that] indicates Iran’s Nuclear Program has been severely damaged” by recent strikes, underscoring a broad intelligence community effort is ongoing to determine the impact of the US strikes on three of the country’s nuclear sites on Saturday.

White House’s DOGE spending cuts request runs into criticism, questions from some Senate Republicans
The head of the White House budget office on Wednesday defended the Trump administration’s push to enact sweeping cuts to federal funding, even as some Republican senators voiced concerns and raised questions about the breadth of them.