Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday cautioned lawmakers against agreeing to a deal on border policy amid negotiations on a spending deal unless Republicans got everything needed to shut down the flow of migrants into the U.S., potentially complicating efforts to reach a bipartisan compromise in Congress.  “I do not think we should do a Border Deal, […]

Senate Republicans are bullish that 2024 will conclude with former President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the party back in the majority in the upper chamber after a four-year hiatus.  “People are over it with [President Joe Biden], and I just think that whoever we nominate is going to be well-positioned to […]

Conservatives on Wednesday tanked a procedural rule vote in revolt against House Speaker Mike Johnson’s top-line spending deal brokered with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, effectively leaving the House at a standstill nine days ahead of a government shutdown deadline.  “We’re making a statement that what the deal . . . that doesn’t secure the border, and that doesn’t […]

Democrats won’t concede a defeat in the 2024 election. President Joe Biden’s Jan. 5 address at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, heralded the Democrats’ much-predicted decision to switch the focus of the president’s reelection campaign from “Bidenomics” to the one theme that has been a winner for them in the last two years: Democrats helped stave off […]

House Republicans are beginning a crucial election year with a heightened focus on border issues, as negotiations in the Senate on asylum policy changes drag on and the conference prepares to bring impeachment proceedings against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.  House Republicans are planning a trip to the border on Wednesday, with 60 members expected […]