Tag: Republicans

House Republicans Desperately Wanted to Expel George Santos and Did; They’re Now Paying the Price for it

Read my lips: Former Rep. George Santos is not a good person. The former New York congressman’s entire backstory was fabricated. He didn’t graduate college. He didn’t work on Wall Street. His grandparents weren’t Holocaust survivors. He wasn’t Jewish — or even “Jew-ish,” to use his own cynically deceptive terminology for it. None of this was […]

Arizona Republicans challenge Biden’s designation of national monument near Grand Canyon

The Arizona Legislature’s top two Republicans have challenged Democratic President Joe Biden’s creation of a new national monument last summer just outside Grand Canyon National Park, alleging he exceeded his legal authority in making that designation under a century-old law that lets presidents protect sites considered historically or culturally important. In a lawsuit filed Monday […]

Republicans work to recruit female and minority candidates even as they criticize diversity programs

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are critical of diversity and inclusion programs within the federal government and elsewhere, but they see recruiting women and minority candidates, along with veterans, as key to expanding their slim majority in November. Rep. Richard Hudson, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, recently listed for reporters a slew […]