Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will pay an in-person visit to Congress on Wednesday as lawmakers prepare to pass a budget that includes more than $45 billion in new military and humanitarian aid for his country.…
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Spending bill honors lawmakers who are rushing to pass it with buildings, lake named for Pelosi, Leahy, Shelby
Congressional leaders working to pass a $1.7 trillion spending bill this week are some of the same ones who are honored in the bill with language naming certain buildings or programs after them. On the…
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Unless something changes fast, the 118th Congress will begin Jan. 3 like an explosion inside a dairy with a lot of ‘spilled milk’ on one side of the aisle. It will be pure chaos…
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Detransitioning TikToker was ‘horrified’ after LGBT activist claimed ‘detransitioning’ is not ‘a real thing’
EXCLUSIVE: Oli London, a TikTok influencer who recently detransitioned after identifying as transgender, was ‘horrified’ after a LGBT activist said during a congressional hearing last week that ‘detransitioning’ is not ‘a real thing.’ On Wednesday,…
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott told President Joe Biden on Tuesday that his ‘disaster’ immigration policy is putting lives at risk as a polar vortex expected this week will create bitter conditions for the thousands of…
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Blackburn, Hagerty press ICE director for answers on illegal migrants being bussed to Tennessee
EXCLUSIVE: Tennessee Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty are demanding answers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after GOP Gov. Bill Lee announced the agency intends to ‘release single adult detainees’ into the state…
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Biden admin asks Supreme Court to end Title 42, but with short delay on lifting restrictions
The Biden administration on Tuesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let the pandemic-era policy Title 42 come to end, but requested a brief delay until at least after Christmas. In a filing on Tuesday,…
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Fate of Trump’s tax returns could be decided in closed-door meeting of House tax-writing committee
The House Ways and Means Committee could vote Tuesday afternoon in a closed-door session on whether to release some or all of the tax returns of former President Donald Trump, just two weeks before Democrat…
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Embattled GOP Rep.-elect George Santos fires back at New York Times after biography questioned
Rep.-elect George Santos, R-N.Y., has responded to a New York Times report that questioned parts of his biography, accusing the paper of launching a ‘shotgun blast of attacks’ before he is sworn into the new…
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GOP scores win in $1.7T budget deal by cutting IRS funding — but the agency still cashes in
Congressional Republicans succeeded in slashing funding for the Internal Revenue Service in the negotiations over President Biden’s $1.7 trillion omnibus budget. Senate Republicans forced Democrats and the White House to cut more than $275 million…