The new Democratic majority is making a major push to outlaw states from asking their voters to show ID at the polls, arguing that such laws push minorities and older people from voting. According to a major new study, they’re wrong — strict voter ID laws have no significant effect on voter turnout, don’t keep […]

President Donald Trump on Monday said he would build his long-desired wall along the southern border regardless of whether Congress approves funding for it. “Just so you know, we’re building the wall anyway,” Trump said at a campaign rally in El Paso, Texas, which sits directly across the Rio Grande from Mexico. Trump spoke shortly […]

The acting attorney general also told lawmakers he won’t discuss his ‘private conversations’ with the president. Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker told the House Judiciary Committee on Friday that he has never interfered with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, but he declined to discuss any conversations he’s had […]

In 2016, Donald Trump’s appeal to black voters couldn’t have been more direct: “What the hell do you have to lose” by supporting Republicans, he would say, given the damage Democratic policies have done to minority communities. Trump noted that the Democrats offer a mere image of concern for minorities, whereas Republicans deliver policies that […]

All 17 members of the group appointed to work out a compromise on border-security funding are on the Appropriations Committee in either the House or the Senate. The group will be led by House Appropriations Committee Chairman Nita Lowey, D., N.Y., and its ranks include the panel’s top Republican, Kay Granger of Texas. Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman […]