Politics

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent came out firing at Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee, slamming Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the panel’s ranking member.

The Southern Poverty Law Center paid reluctant white nationalists and Ku Klux Klan members thousands of dollars in donor money to remain in the notorious hate groups — even making them whole for money spent on cross-burnings, the Justice Department alleged in a stunning superseding indictment filed Tuesday.

A Post reporter visited Platner’s stomping grounds in southern Maine — including his in-laws’ home and a restaurant run by the candidate’s mother — as the Senate hopeful was meeting with Democrats at their main campaign committee’s headquarters on Capitol Hill.

President Trump said in a “Pod Force One” interview with Miranda Devine that he expects to meet Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei and the at-war leaders are “getting along quite well.”

Chinese leader Xi Jinping expressed deep respect for the job President Trump has done in his second term during his visit to Beijing last month, the commander-in-chief told “Pod Force One” Tuesday. 

President Trump praised Ron DeSantis and didn’t rule him out for a potential cabinet job Tuesday when asked on “Pod Force One” if he’d consider the Florida Republican governor for the top post at the Justice Department. 

President Trump confirmed in an exclusive “Pod Force One” interview with The Post’s Miranda Devine that he called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “f–king crazy” during a Monday phone call, but insisted they have “worked very well together.”

Tuesday’s primary elections in New Jersey and Iowa set the stage for several competitive contests this fall that could determine control of the House and Senate.

President Trump-backed Rep. Randy Feenstra conceded to businessman Zach Lahn in the Iowa GOP primary for Senate, marking a rare endorsement defeat for the president in the primaries.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s whiz-kid spin doctor Morris Katz admitted to blasting out nude photos of himself in a resurfaced blog post.