Fresh executive order targets sanctuary cities, federal aid for undocumented migrants
President Donald Trump signed an immigration govt order late Wednesday designed to focus on sanctuary cities and guarantee undocumented immigrants aren’t receiving federal advantages. The order directs federal departments and businesses to establish any federal applications offering monetary advantages to undocumented immigrants, whereas in the identical breath acknowledging that below the Private Duty and Work Alternative Reconciliation Act of 1996, undocumented immigrants are already largely barred from public applications. However…
Trump stuns Senate GOP with House budget endorsement
Republicans on Capitol Hill have lengthy wished President Donald Trump to weigh in on the strategic disputes which have divided the 2 chambers over the right way to cross his legislative agenda. However this isn't what GOP senators had in thoughts. Trump’s public name Wednesday for the adoption of a Home-drafted price range framework — and the “one huge, lovely invoice” it sketches out — left Senate Republicans flat-footed and…
Mitch McConnell’s party of one
Three months in the past, Mitch McConnell ran the Senate GOP. Now he’s going it alone as he wages battles in opposition to a few of President Donald Trump’s highest-profile nominees. The Kentucky Republican grew to become the one member of the Senate GOP’s 53-seat convention to oppose multiple Trump choose along with his votes this week — first opposing Tulsi Gabbard’s director of nationwide intelligence nomination on Wednesday after…
They’re not just suing to stop DOGE. They’re suing Elon Musk himself.
Elon Musk’s efforts to disrupt and dismantle the federal authorities on the behest of Donald Trump have already sparked a legion of lawsuits. Now the authorized challengers are setting their sights on a brand new goal: Musk himself. Two new instances accuse the ultra-wealthy CEO of illegally amassing an excessive amount of authorities energy with out the accountability usually required of high-level government department officers. They're searching for courtroom orders…
Sweeping safety-net cuts have GOP centrists questioning Johnson’s budget
Speaker Mike Johnson has cleared a serious hurdle towards unlocking the huge, party-line invoice he’s pursuing to enact President Donald Trump’s huge home agenda. Now he’s acquired extra leaping to do. On Thursday, as Republican hard-liners celebrated a concession they received from social gathering leaders to drive deeper spending cuts as a part of the GOP’s sweeping coverage push, centrists expressed deep alarm in regards to the trajectory of the…
House Republicans advance their budget after appeasing hard-liners
Rating one for the backers of “one huge, stunning invoice." Home Republicans launched their funds plan out of committee Thursday evening — the primary legislative step towards fulfilling President Donald Trump’s coverage agenda however at odds with the Senate's continued pursuit of a "two-track" plan. The Home Funds Committee voted to approve a funds decision alongside get together traces, 21-16, after a marathon markup. With a view to rally sufficient…
RFK Jr.’s plans could make Musk’s look small
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now answerable for the nation’s well being businesses. His plans to upend them might make Elon Musk’s budget-cutting spree look modest by comparability. Kennedy gained Senate affirmation on Thursday even after vowing to take vitamin and well being applications in a radical new path, and regardless of his lengthy historical past of criticizing the security of scientifically confirmed vaccines. “We'll be certain our tax {dollars}…
Gabbard clears key Senate hurdle with unanimous GOP support
Senators voted to advance Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination to function director of nationwide intelligence in a party-line vote Monday night, setting the stage for a ultimate affirmation vote later this week. Having secured the assist of 52 Senate Republicans, Gabbard, one in every of President Donald Trump’s most controversial Cupboard nominees, is on monitor to be confirmed because the nation’s prime intelligence official within the coming days. Forty six Democrats within…
Tulsi Gabbard confirmed as director of national intelligence
The Senate voted to substantiate Tulsi Gabbard to function director of nationwide intelligence on Wednesday, with Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky the one member of his celebration to vote towards President Donald Trump’s nominee. The vote was 52 to 48. No Democrats voted in assist for the previous lawmaker. Gabbard has been considered one of Trump’s most contentious nominees due to her previous remarks on overseas adversaries and issues…
Jodey Arrington has 2 days to save the House budget
That is the second Jodey Arrington has been ready for: The Texas Republican and longtime fiscal hawk has a GOP trifecta, the Home Funds Committee gavel and a chance to make the large cuts to federal spending he’s all the time wished. However Arrington’s now vulnerable to being outmaneuvered by fellow chairs, senior leaders and the Senate as frustration provides method to full-blown anger amongst Home Republicans over how he…
