Jacqui Heinrich
@JacquiHeinrich · Diplomatic & national-security press — DC
Jacqui Heinrich is Fox News's senior White House correspondent.
.@SenJohnKennedy calls on POTUS to "take the lead" on reminding voters what congress has done on affordability ahead of the midterms KENNEDY: We need to talk about what we've done and what we're going to do. So does the president. Look, the cost of living increases is real. Inflation is real. The new inflation has been caused in part by the rise in the price of oil as a result of Iran. It's been caused by all the spending on artificial intelligence. Some of it, not all of it. Some of it is attributable to tariffs. We need to talk about what we've done. We've cut the federal workforce by 11%. We've mowed down thousands and thousands and thousands of rules and regulations. We passed the tax cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill, that the average tax refund for the average American went up almost 12% this year. Wages increased about 3% last year. We need to go back to Washington and pass a bill to combat fraud in our social programs. That will cause interest rates to fall. And it will impact people's credit ratings and their ability to access credit. Those are the things that we have done and we need to talk about. And the president is going to have to take the lead on that.
.@SenJohnKennedy on @SundayBriefFNC: "I didn't say the troops should come home. I said, it's certainly an option that we need to consider. Another option, at the other extreme is to arm the Kurds and, and let them keep any country or any part of the region that they conquer...many of the Democrats and members of the media are utterly and unspeakably wrong about Iran. Israel and the United States have gone medieval on Iran. It is a sucking chest wound. It will be 20 years and half $1 billion for that country can recover. They have no air defenses. If they restart a nuclear weapons program, we will know in a second. And we can bomb them. Unless you peaked in high school, that should that should be obvious."
POTUS: "Pretty soon I'll be declaring the Straight of Hormuz a territory of the United States"
VP Vance on @willcain describes a twofold goal with Iran, placing primary emphasis on the economy - secondary emphasis on preventing nuclear threat: VANCE: "I know that oil is down today and it's way down from the highs in the early days of the conflict. That's goal number one. Keep oil and gas cheap for Americans all over our country. And then obviously, goal number two is ensure that Iran never gets a nuclear weapon. I feel confident we're accomplishing both of those goals."