WASHINGTON — House Republicans will move forward with a $17.6 billion package that provides military aid to Israel and replenish U.S. weapons, but leaves out more help for Ukraine, underscoring the challenges facing supporters of a comprehensive national security package that would also include billions of dollars for immigration enforcement. The move gives Speaker Mike […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson quashed any notion of putting a border security and foreign aid package on the House floor soon, saying Senate leadership “eliminated the ability for swift consideration” of the legislation because of a lack of House GOP input. Mr. Johnson told his conference in a letter obtained by The Washington Times that […]
To his supporters, Alejandro Mayorkas is a thoughtful, driven secretary – a “Boy Scout” – who brings a prosecutor’s tenacity and his personal understanding of the immigrant experience in America to running his sprawling agency. To his detractors, he personifies everything that has gone wrong at the U.S.-Mexico border and is responsible for allowing hundreds […]
A Republican candidate for the House of Representatives ripped the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday, saying it was “mistreating residents” of East Palestine, Ohio. President Joe Biden announced Wednesday he would visit the city where the Feb. 3, 2023, train derailment occurred, fulfilling a promise to visit East Palestine made in March 2023. The derailment caused people to evacuate after chemicals […]
Senate Republicans aren’t convinced Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas deserves to be impeached and removed from office. While they say he has fallen down on the job of securing the southern border, the senators don’t know it rises to high crimes and misdemeanors, even as House Republicans race toward an impeachment vote. “He’s been derelict […]
Republican lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee say they are seeking “action and accountability” after discovering new details and discrepancies surrounding an anti-Catholic memo prepared by analysts last year in the FBI‘s Richmond, Virginia, field office. In a letter spearheaded by Sen. Charles E. Grassley to FBI Director Christopher A. Wray, the Iowa Republican and […]
SALEM, Ore. — The Oregon Supreme Court said Thursday that 10 Republican state senators who staged a record-long walkout last year to stall bills on abortion, transgender health care and gun rights cannot run for reelection. The decision upholds the secretary of state’s decision to disqualify the senators from the ballot under a voter-approved measure […]
House investigators Wednesday threatened to subpoena the White House to obtain drafts and revisions of a 2015 speech delivered by President Biden to the Ukrainian parliament while he was serving as vice president. The National Archives and Records Administration has the speech, given in December 2015, and all drafts and associated documents. But the agency […]
Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley is likening President Biden and former President Donald Trump to the crotchety characters from the movie “Grumpy Old Men,” warning a sequel/rematch starring the two in November would amount to political box-office poison. With the clock ticking on her chances of slowing Mr. Trump’s momentum, Ms. Haley has been sharpening […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson has been pressuring the Intelligence and Judiciary committees to stop butting heads and quickly meld their competing bills to rewrite the government’s most powerful spy power, the Washington Times has learned. The speaker is forcing the rival GOP factions — Judiciary’s federal weaponization watchdogs and Intel’s national security hawks — to […]
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