EL PASO, Texas (AP) — President Joe Biden walked a muddy stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border and inspected a busy port of entry Sunday on his first trip to the region after two years in office, a visit shadowed by the fraught politics of immigration as Republicans blame him for record numbers of migrants crossing into the country.
The Biden administration last week announced a significant new crackdown on unauthorized migration at the border while opening new legal pathways for some people
"What I don't support is a small number of people trying to get a deal done or deals done for themselves in private," the South Carolina Republican said on "Face the Nation."
House Republicans are gearing up to investigate the Department of Justice and the FBI, including their “ongoing criminal investigations,” setting up a showdown with the Biden administration and law enforcement agencies over their criminal probes, particularly those into former President Donald...
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas blasted Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) over the border crisis, claiming that the governor has not been cooperating with the federal government. Mayorkas rebuffed Republican criticisms in an interview with George Stephanapoulos on ABC News' This Week...
Biden's border visit is to try to highlight El Paso, Texas, as a model for what can be done with the immense task of migration management, a White House official said
EL PASO, Texas — President Joe Biden walked away from his inaugural visit to the U.S.-Mexico border vowing to send federal law enforcement the help needed — a claim that Republicans tore apart as feigned interest.Biden spent three hours in El Paso, where he met with various immigrant rights...
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) was not disillusioned by the tumultuous speaker of the House vote, insisting that it's "exactly how the founders intended it." "Sometimes, democracy is messy," he told Shannon Bream on Sunday. "I would argue that’s exactly how the founders intended it." "They wanted real...
The chaotic Speaker’s election was “only the beginning” of a “rough and rowdy” session in the House of Representatives, according to Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas), who on Sunday blasted Republicans …
Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., revealed Sunday he has been appointed to the Republican House Steering Committee in exchange for supporting Kevin McCarthy for House Speaker.
As Republican infighting debilitates Washington, some state legislatures have managed to launch sessions complicated by similar GOP partisan divides or razor-thin margins of party control with creative, if yet untested, solutions.
In Nebraska, Dan Osborn, an independent, is in a tight race with Senator Deb Fischer, and in Texas, Representative Colin Allred is four percentage points behind Senator Ted Cruz.
Dozens of volunteer doctors, nurses and psychologists traveled to the region to treat people whose routines, including medical appointments, were disrupted by the storm.
Sen. JD Vance of Ohio on Saturday declined to characterize Russian President Vladimir Putin as an “enemy,” saying instead that “I think that he’s clearly an adversary. He is a competitor.”
“But I think that we also have to be smart about diplomacy, too,” Vance, who is former President Donald Trump’s running mate, added in an interview with NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that aired Sunday. “Just because we don’t like somebody, doesn’t mean that we can’t occasionally engage in conversations with them.”
His remarks came in response to a question from...
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