The House and Senate are in session this week.
The House was originally scheduled to be out of session, but changed the schedule as a result of the King’s address to Congress. The House will now be in recess the week of May 4.
The House is scheduled to have an ambitious week with the consideration of FISA, the Farm Bill, and potentially, funding for the Department of Homeland Security. DHS has been shut down, in part, for 74 days, which includes funding for the Secret Service.
Conservatives such as Congressman Chip Roy would like to see money for the White House ballroom, presumably with enhanced security, attached to the DHS funding bill. Last Saturday, for the third time, a violent leftist tried to assassinate President Donald J. Trump, this time at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
Liberals continue to dismiss their own pattern of political violence, claiming that it is coming from “both sides,” and declaring that “all political violence must be condemned.” They have yet to actually condemn it.
A pattern has emerged of leaders on the left contributing to rhetoric that leads to violence. Just days before the first attempted assassination in Butler, PA, Roy Cooper, the Governor of North Carolina, said “Donald Trump is an existential threat to our democracy and our nation, and we have to stop him.” Even after the suspected assassin was taken into custody, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries doubled down on his call for “maximum warfare” against his political opponents.
The New York Times failed to cover the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in its Sunday edition, then on Monday led with an article stating simply that “an emergency unfolded” at the dinner.
Continuing the left’s pattern of burying the point—and their own propensity to political violence— local D.C. news station NBC4 said Trump is using the Correspondents’ Dinner shooting “to renew his White House ballroom push,” as though he stands to personally gain from its construction.
Katie Miller, wife of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, joined Laura Ingraham to correct the record: “It’s no mistake that the alleged assassin hails from the State of California—that of Gavin Newsom. Gavin is the worst offender of violent political rhetoric that sparked this man’s imagination.”
The White House Ballroom will give President Trump and subsequent presidents the safety and security they need. Serious consideration should also be given to the plans and personnel needed to protect the president, his family, and the cabinet in an era when attempted assassinations are approved by 42 percent of liberals.
ICYMI…
- CPI’s Rachel Bovard in Breitbart: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/04/26/exclusive-rachel-bovard-senate-republicans-waiting-led-pass-save-america-act/
- Dave Brat, former Representative from Virginia’s 7th Congressional District, was nominated to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Commonwealth of Australia.
- Chronicles Magazine: Colleges are Making Political Violence Worse