

"I'm just not going to get into hypotheticals from here," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. But the administration has stiff-armed those unfounded claims saying the president, the first lady and the first family were away from the White House over the weekend. Others have suggested - without evidence - that Hunter Biden, the president's son, is the culprit given his public struggles with drug addiction in the past.

"The presence of illegal drugs in the White House is unacceptable and a shameful moment in the White House’s history," Comer said.

He wants answers about the security practices as well as determining what failures led to an evacuation of the building. James Comer, R-Ky., chairman of the powerful House Oversight Committee, is requesting a Secret Service briefing on the matter. That it was found in a West Wing lobby, which serves as a reception room for visitors, is even more troubling given staff are authorized to give those tours for people who go through background screenings where they are asked to leave their cellphones in small boxes. The discovery that someone brought cocaine into a highly trafficked part of the White House isn't something that you can expect to wash away in a few news cycles. Comer: Cocaine in the White House 'shameful' Kristi Noem and the famous ice cream company Ben & Jerry's, which called for the return of Mount Rushmore to Indigenous populations. Ron DeSantis remains far behind Donald Trump, and hasn't done much to catch up since his formal campaign announcement in May. That is making many wonder if there is a better Trump alternative in the GOP field, as other contenders begin to carve out space to distinguish themselves from or attack the former president.Īnd during the July Fourth celebrations there was a cultural war tussle between South Dakota Gov. On the 2024 presidential campaign trail, Florida Gov. Andy Harris, R-Md., which marks the first time a member has been ousted from the group. The House Freedom Caucus voted to remove Greene, according to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., has built her political career on being one of the fiercest far-right voices in Congress, but she was knocked down a peg or two when a conservative group kicked her out.
