At the end of a particularly thrilling and rollicking meeting in the Oval Office, Lindsey Graham turned to the room and said: “I’ve never had this much fun in my life.”
I cannot describe to you how much joy President Trump’s leadership and friendship brought to Lindsey. Meetings with Graham at the White House were filled with camaraderie, kinship and uproarious laughter.
As heartbreaking as his sudden passing is, I hope it will bring some measure of comfort to those who cherished him to know just how much he was living his dream every day. Very rarely in life do you get to be exactly where you want to be, when you want to be there, with who you want to be with, doing precisely what you want to do — that was every moment for Lindsey.
When President Trump won in Nov 2024, Lindsey was exultant. Elated. And determined. He couldn’t wait to spearhead work, as the Budget Chairman, on the reconciliation bill that would cement President Trump’s most important campaign promises. I’ll never forget the senate lunch, when a couple Senators were a tad off the program, and Lindsey — in his inimitable way — made sure everyone was onside by the time we left. It was a glorious thing to witness. He knew how to move a room.
Lindsey was a senator’s senator. The job was everything to him. Truly did he believe in the splendor of the office and the noble lineage behind it, of which he was the worthy heir.
He was a senator in the mold of those who fashioned the institution, someone who still had the ability, in a heated exchange, to use rhetorical power to change the course of events.
Which is why we will never forget his legendary Kavanaugh moment. We rarely think that we are out of time with our friends, so while there is a lot more I wish I could have said to Lindsey, I am glad that more than once I told him what that moment meant to the whole nation and why he was the only Senator who could have done it with such utter perfection.
Most importantly, I had the chance to tell him on many occasions what his friendship meant to me and to us all. There was never once a time he didn’t answer a phone call and lend whatever assistance was required. It was never a question with Lindsey. He believed deeply in the code of friendship and loyalty.
The fact that Lindsey started out as a political opponent only to become one the President’s most steadfast and faithful supporters underscores that Lindsey believed emphatically in the voice of the people.
There is a lot more I would like to say. His passing, at a time when he had never been more dynamic, is as unexpected as it is shocking. In many respects, Lindsey was the last of a breed of American Senator whose like we may not yet see again for a long time.
He lived every minute in the arena, a political gladiator to the very last.
More than anything now, our thoughts are with his Sister, nieces and loved ones.
We pray that God will ease their sorrow and heal their pain.
Lindsey can never be replaced and will never be forgotten.
Godspeed, my friend.
One of the biggest grocery stores in America is SLASHING prices, cutting costs on everyday essentials for several weeks. 👏🇺🇸
@Meijer joins other grocery giants like Walmart and Sam's Club in lowering prices, part of a growing trend under President Trump.
Colin M. McDonald, Assistant AG for the DOJs National Fraud Enforcement Division just announed a huge case out of PA:
“Today, we are announcing criminal charges against 19 defendants for fraudulent home healthcare schemes that targeted Pennsylvania's Medicaid fraud program and resulted in over $4 million of fraud.”
"18 of these defendants were charged in the last 12 days as part of a strategically coordinated law enforcement operation between the fraud division, the US Attorney's office, and the Pennsylvania Attorney General's office.”
"The cases today build on the work that we recently announced in Minnesota, where we charged 15 defendants”
Seth Moulton apologizes to the far-Left for saying he doesn’t want men in girls’ sports.
Q: "You said 'I have two little girls. I don’t want them getting run over...by a male or formerly male athlete'..."
MOULTON: “To the trans community…I’m sorry if my comments hurt you.”
.@SecKennedy completely schools @DanaBashCNN again: "First of all, this is an international outbreak, and we're doing better at handling it than any country in the world... Canada has 4x the amount of measles. England has 2x the amount of measles. Did I cause those measles outbreaks?"
"Anthony Fauci, in his diaries, answers the question about why we're having a measles outbreak right now. The reason we're having a measles outbreak is because of the Covid lockdowns; because children, during that period, did not get vaccinated. And in his diaries, he says this is going to cause massive outbreaks of measles, and more children—he says this... are going to die from measles because of these lockdowns than Covid."
Today, I'm releasing preliminary implementation guidance shared by the Trump administration regarding President Trump's UAP NDA directive.
If you have questions about the directive, or believe it may apply to you, I encourage you to contact my office or another Member of Congress if you need assistance navigating the process.
Full release and memorandum: https://t.co/3Lqb6Q9FDA
While hordes of Third World migrants storm Spain's territory, the United States' borders are locked down at levels never seen before.
President Trump inherited a similar invasion to what Spain is facing, and he stopped it on Day One.
This is what was happening at America's borders under Joe Biden. This is what Democrats support and defend.
Never forget what they did, and what President Trump fixed on DAY ONE.
The Democrats did this to America every single day for 4 years under Biden and will do it again instantaneously, but orders of magnitude greater, if they are given any form of national power. Democrats will see your home trampled and stolen by invaders and they will rejoice.
🚨BREAKING: An emergency has now been declared in the Spanish city of Ceuta after tens of thousands of illegal migrants break in from Morocco
Pedro Sánchez is REFUSING to deploy the military to defend the borders. 🇪🇸
.@POTUS announces the FREEDOM HAULERS initiative — getting illegal alien truck drivers off American roadways and replacing them with PROUD AMERICAN VETERANS.
https://t.co/xuS1XzpGJS
We have been abundantly clear—if immigration attorneys commit fraud for their clients, the attorneys will be fined. This week, we issued a fine notice to Suraj Raj Singh totaling over $470,000. This attorney filed 118 fraudulent documents. Before President Trump came along, attorneys like this just got away with it!
https://t.co/5u2BLvc8gO
The United States welcomes Chad's decision to withdraw from the ICC and join the growing number of nations reclaiming their sovereignty from this flawed institution. As @SecRubio has stated, the United States will never surrender its sovereignty to an unaccountable global tribunal, and we are launching a comprehensive, whole-of-government campaign to end the ICC's illegitimate overreach. We call on all other ICC members to withdraw from the Rome Statute.
Today, Secretary Hegseth awarded 50 service members the Mexican Border Defense Medal.
These warriors answered the call and secured our southern border.
🚨 The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to restore key parts of President Trump's election integrity executive order, including provisions directing USPS to change federal mail-ballot procedures, arguing lower courts blocked the policy before any final agency action.
The U.S. welcomes the decision by interim President Delcy Rodriguez and Venezuela to withdraw from the ICC and the new Venezuelan government's partnership on American-led efforts to dismantle the corrupt and worthless ICC.
The so-called court has been "investigating" Nicolas Maduro since 2018 with no result. The ICC has instead wasted its resources on investigating and charging persons from countries that have competent, independent judicial systems and which never submitted to the jurisdiction of the court. This is blatant overreach, political bias and selective enforcement. The ICC is neither credible, independent, nor legitimate.
Thanks to President Trump's leadership and the efforts of brave American service members, Maduro is now facing justice in U.S. court for crimes he has committed.
It is time to dismantle the ICC.
The U.S. calls on all members of the ICC to withdraw from the Rome Statute.
The Cuban Communist regime continues to exploit its people and serve as the leading sponsor of radical leftism and political violence in our hemisphere. Today, I designated nine entities and two individuals associated with the dictatorship, including four malign actors profiting from the exploitation and forced labor of the regime’s overseas medical brigades and a sanctions evasion network associated with the kleptocratic military conglomerate, GAESA.
Anyone supporting, sponsoring, or providing services to these sanctioned actors is at risk of being sanctioned themselves. Foreign banks and other companies that provide services to, or hold funds for, these entities should suspend those activities immediately.
https://t.co/azxZH4dXNI
Today, in a sweeping action to confront narcoterrorism, Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned over 50 Mexican individuals and entities linked to the terrorist Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion, which is responsible for a significant proportion of fentanyl and other deadly drugs trafficked into the United States.
BREAKING: DHS confirms that the suspect charged with sexually assaulting and murdering a 2-year-old girl in Louisa County, VA earlier this month is an illegal alien from Mexico. ICE filed a detainer on Raul Genesis Ortiz Moran with local law enforcement & they honored the detainer and handed him over to ICE.
Moran is now charged with second degree murder and aggravated sexual assault.
He entered the U.S. illegally as a gotaway at an unknown time & location.
NEW: DHS confirms that the driver arrested for killing three people in a hit and run crash in Salisbury, NC on Saturday is a Salvadoran illegal alien with prior convictions for reckless endangerment, failure to stop after an accident involving damage, and driving without a license in Maryland, plus an arrest for escaping from custody.
DHS says after his arrest for escaping from custody in Maryland in 2016, local law enforcement honored an ICE detainer and handed over Javiel Pena Sola to the custody of ICE Baltimore, but the Obama administration released him back into the country two months later.
Sola has now been charged with three felony counts of felony hit and run involving serious injury or death. He was found by a police K-9 after he tried to flee the scene of the crash.