Met with Tajikistani Foreign Minister Muhriddin to discuss expanding commercial opportunities in critical minerals. We also talked about our continued cooperation in security and counterterrorism and the importance of engagement through the C5+1 diplomatic platform.
I was one of only four Republicans to vote to release the Epstein files.
I stood my ground while others folded. I stood strong when the pressure came from every direction and others wanted me to stay silent. I did not flinch.
If the vote were held again tomorrow, I would cast the exact same vote. Every. Single. Time.
I will never stand on the side of a cover-up. I will never protect the powerful from accountability. Not for either party. Not for anyone.
My moral compass does not bend to Washington. It never has. It never will. It points in one direction: toward what is right.
I did not come to Congress to protect a broken system. I came to fight for YOU. To expose the corruption. To tell the truth. To demand accountability. And to stand up for the people who sent me here.
And I will continue to do it for every last day I serve.
A former Charleston Co. judge accused of sex crimes just reached a plea deal.
This is exactly what is wrong with our justice system.
Predators are negotiating their way out of accountability while their victims have no say in the matter.
Cutting a deal to let an accused predator walk away from the majority of their child porn charges is not justice.
It is a slap in the face to every child victim in this case. Furthermore, I support the death penalty for anyone who r*pes children.
Breaking 🚨
The monster has been eliminated.
Hamas commander Walid Haniyeh—who burned two Jewish infants to death in a microwave and brutally mutilated and murdered a Christian female tourist after raping her on October 7—has been eliminated in a covert operation.
TERROR TUNNEL FOILED IN EAST JERUSALEM
Israeli forces uncovered a 25-meter terror tunnel in an East Jerusalem village packed with heavy weapons and explosives. According to Israeli authorities, Palestinian terrorists were preparing a large-scale attack targeting Israel’s capital before the plot was disrupted.
After years of being banned from entering a stadium in my own country, for no crime other than being a woman, this is how I walked in.
This was the World Cup FIFA 2026 between England and Panama but for me, it was beyond that.
You have to be a woman from Iran or Afghanistan to truly understand this emotion.
For whom this simple act, walking into a stadium, moving with joy, showing my hair, sitting next to men, was not just forbidden. I was beaten for it. Imprisoned for it. Humiliated for it. Exiled for it. And even in exile, I became a target for multiple assassination plots.
And now people lecture me: "Don't politicize football."
I have a question: which part of my body hasn't already been politicized by the Islamic Republic? My hair? My voice? My seat in a stadium?
They turned our entire existence into a political battlefield. Every inch of a woman was a crime scene under their law.
And now I'm supposed to just sit back, eat a hot dog, and enjoy the game?
I did enjoy the game. England won. But walking through those gates, that was the real victory.
🔴ELIMINATED: Zaher Brahim Khalil Abu Salem, an Islamic Jihad military operative who infiltrated Israeli territory during the October 7 Massacre.
Abu Salem took part in the abduction of Israeli civilians from their homes & in holding them hostage. Additionally, he attempted to advance numerous terror attacks against IDF troops & Israeli civilians.
Met with Libyan National Army Deputy Commander Saddam Haftar to discuss unifying Libya’s military and building the conditions for lasting peace. The U.S. will continue working with Libyan leaders and international partners to support a more peaceful, unified, and prosperous Libya.
ישראל זקוקה ממשלה לאומית רחבה - וזו הממשלה שאקים.
בעת הזאת, אחרי שנים של מבחנים קשים, מול אויבים מבחוץ ואתגרים גדולים מבפנים, מדינת ישראל זקוקה לממשלה שתאחד את רוב העם סביב דרך ברורה, אחראית ולאומית.
בכוונתי להקים ממשלה לאומית רחבה, שתישען על הסכמה רחבה ככל האפשר בנושאים המרכזיים שיקבעו את עתידנו כאן לדורות.
הממשלה הזו תקום על בסיס עקרונות יסוד ברורים:
ישראל היא מדינת הלאום של העם היהודי.
ישראל תגן על עצמה בכוחות עצמה.
ישראל תבטיח לעצמה עצמאות כלכלית, אנרגטית וחימושית.
ולא תקום מדינה פלסטינית בין הים לירדן.
מי שמקבל את העקרונות הללו מוזמן להצטרף.
אנחנו לא באים להחרים, לא לפסול אישית, לא להעמיק את הקרע ולא להמשיך את השסע. להפך: אנחנו באים לאחות, לאחד ולהוביל את ישראל מתוך אחריות לאומית ומתוך אהבה עמוקה לעם שלנו ולמדינה שלנו.
יש לנו די אויבים מבחוץ. יש עדיין שאריות של הציר האיראני שצריך לטפל בהן, יש אתגרים ביטחוניים כבדים, ויש גם הזדמנויות היסטוריות לשלום באזור - בלבנון ובמקומות נוספים.
כדי לנצח את האיומים ולנצל את ההזדמנויות, אנחנו צריכים קודם כל שלום בתוכנו.
זו הבחירה האמיתית בבחירות האלה:
ממשלה לאומית רחבה בראשותי - או ממשלת שמאל צרה שתהיה תלויה במפלגות הערביות.
ישראל צריכה ממשלה לאומית רחבה. בעזרת השם - זו הממשלה שאני אקים.
The U.S. is proud to be a part of today's historic trilateral framework agreement between Israel and Lebanon.
There is more work to be done, but we're taking meaningful steps toward a future of peace, prosperity, and mutual coexistence.
אישרנו היום פה אחד בממשלה מהלך אסטרטגי לעתיד העם היהודי: תכנית לאומית לחיזוק החינוך היהודי בתפוצות, בהיקף של 200 מיליון ש״ח.
כיום חיים בארצות הברית כ-1.8 מיליון ילדים יהודים בגילאי חינוך, אך רק חלק קטן מהם לומד במוסדות חינוך יהודיים. אנחנו רואים בהרחבת החינוך היהודי יעד אסטרטגי בעל חשיבות לאומית מהמעלה הראשונה, במיוחד לנוכח העלייה באנטישמיות והאתגרים הגדולים שעומדים בפני יהדות העולם.
התכנית תסיר חסמים מרכזיים שמונעים מילדים יהודים לקבל חינוך יהודי איכותי: עלויות שכר לימוד, מרחק גיאוגרפי, מחסור במענים לתלמידים עם לקויות למידה, והצורך בחיזוק המצוינות של בתי הספר. לצד זאת, נפתח מסגרות חדשניות וכלים דיגיטליים שינגישו חינוך יהודי לקהלים רחבים יותר.
האנטישמים מבקשים לפגוע לא רק ביהודים, אלא גם בזהות שלנו, במורשת שלנו ובקשר שלנו לארצנו. התשובה שלנו היא ביטחון - אבל גם חינוך, שורשים וגאווה יהודית.
יחד עם שר התפוצות @AmichaiChikli ועם קהילות יהודיות ברחבי העולם, נחזק את הדור הבא של העם היהודי ואת הקשר העמוק שלו למדינת ישראל.
זו המחויבות שלנו לעתיד העם היהודי.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a press conference this evening and made the following remarks:
"Dear citizens of Israel, yesterday before the start of the Sabbath, we achieved a historic accomplishment for the State of Israel. Following direct negotiations between Israel and Lebanon, mediated by the US, we have reached a framework of understandings that allows us to move forward toward ending the conflict, and, G-d willing, eventually reaching a peace agreement between the two countries.
Under these understandings, the US and Lebanon have recognized Israel's right to maintain the security zone inside Lebanon for as long as it is required for our security. We will continue to hold it until Hezbollah and the rest of the terrorist organizations are disarmed, and until no further threat to Israel is posed from Lebanon.
I want you to know – this is a massive blow to Iran and Hezbollah. Iran tried to force a withdrawal from southern Lebanon upon us. You heard these demands all the time, and you also heard their disappointment and their criticism of the agreement – both theirs and Hezbollah's. I stood firm on our vital interests and forcefully opposed the notion of forcing a withdrawal upon us.
Lebanon, Israel, and the US are essentially saying to Iran: This is none of your business. You have no status here. You have no involvement and no role, not you, not Hezbollah, and not any terrorist organization.
Israel and Lebanon have agreed on two adjacent areas near the Yellow Line, recommended by the IDF, where there will be a pilot program for disarming Hezbollah and transferring the territory to the control of the Lebanese army.
This is a tremendous achievement, because what were they trying to do? They tried to get us out of there through all kinds of means and pressures. That, of course, will not happen.
I thank President Trump and Secretary of State Rubio for their involvement, their contribution, and for achieving these understandings. I thank the government of Lebanon and the people of Lebanon; they showed great courage. I thank Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter, and our team, they faithfully represented Israel in the talks.
We are breaking the Iranian axis of terror, but we are also breaking the Iranian diplomatic axis.
We managed to reach this framework of understandings for a simple reason: Because we struck Hezbollah hard. And Hezbollah, which expected assistance from Iran, did not receive it, because we struck Iran hard. All of this was done thanks to the heroism of our fighters, and also thanks to the wise and courageous decisions we made.
I want to remind you of what the situation was in Lebanon: Hezbollah had 150,000 missiles and rockets, and we eliminated about 90 percent of this vast arsenal. We astonished them with the pagers, we eliminated Nasrallah, and we eliminated the commanders of the Radwan Force.
In the last two weeks alone, we eliminated over 200 terrorists, and since the beginning of the war, over 9,000 Hezbollah terrorists!
We took control of the Beaufort and we are staying in the Beaufort; we took control of the Ali Taher ridge, and of Bint Jbeil – they are under our control. We are eliminating their terrorist infrastructure throughout the entire area, in the entire Yellow Zone; we are simply wiping out the terrorist infrastructure. There are bunkers there, there are tunnels there, there are terrorist villages there; we are wiping the, all out. We are not done yet, we still have work to do, especially regarding the global problem of explosive drones, and in this too, we will be the first in the world to find a solution.
But what is clear is one thing: There is a historic achievement here. This agreement strengthens Israel and Lebanon, and weakens Iran and Hezbollah. And G-d willing, this is a sign of things to come.
We will continue to do everything necessary to restore security to the residents of the North, just as we successfully did in the South. We did it once again thanks to the heroism of the fighters and commanders, and also thanks to your steadfast resilience, residents of the North. We are bringing you not only security assistance, but also over 20 billion shekels to restore prosperity to the North.
This is what I want to see: A quiet border between us and Lebanon, a border of peace. And in the North, I want to see security, peace, and prosperity.
What happened in the South, which is currently prospering in the western Negev, will also happen in the North. This is my goal, and with your help and G-d's help, we will achieve it."
הממשלה אישרה היום את תכנית החומש החדשה שלנו לפיתוח אילת וחבל אילות בהיקף של כ־360 מיליון ש״ח.
אילת וחבל אילות הם הפנינה הדרומית של מדינת ישראל, שערה הדרומי ונכס אסטרטגי, כלכלי ותיירותי מהמעלה הראשונה.
במלחמת התקומה ראינו את החוסן, הערבות ההדדית והלב הגדול של תושבי האזור, שקלטו עשרות אלפי מפונים ועמדו במשימה לאומית חשובה.
היום אנחנו מחזירים להם במעשים: נחזק את שירותי הבריאות, נשדרג את ההיערכות לחירום, נפתח תחבורה ותשתיות, נקדם מנועי צמיחה ותעסוקה, נחזק את התיירות ונשקיע בחינוך, בהשכלה גבוהה ובהכשרה מקצועית.
כך אנחנו מבטיחים את עתיד אילת וחבל אילות - ומבססים אותם כמנוע צמיחה מרכזי של מדינת ישראל לשנים הבאות.
The President of Faso, President of the Confederation of Sahel States (AES), Comrade Captain Ibrahim TRAORÉ, received in audience, this Friday late morning, a delegation of Ministers in charge of Youth from the member countries of the AES Confederation, led by the Burkinabe Minister, Comrade Annick Lydie Djouma PIKBOUGOUM/ZINGUÉ OUATTARA.
The U.S. immediately mobilized urban search and rescue teams, activated $150 million in assistance, and is delivering humanitarian and medical supplies to save lives and address urgent needs in Venezuela.