House Speaker Mike Johnson said Monday the courts should let the Trump administration and Congress do their work as they continue efforts to root out waste in federal government spending. “It has taken this level of audit from effectively an outside auditor — that’s what DOGE and Elon [Musk] and the group really is — to be […]
A group of House Republicans asked federal courts on Monday to decide in favor of President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order, marking the latest move in a string of contentious legal fights over the matter. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, and 16 other lawmakers filed amicus briefs in two of the birthright […]
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott asked Congress on Thursday to give the state $11 billion in taxpayer money to reimburse it for what it’s spent in recent years plugging gaps in the border left by the Biden administration. Abbott said the state erected more than 100 miles of its own border wall, placed 200 miles of razor wire, and […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson suggested Congress should place conditions on disaster assistance for California in the wake of the state’s destructive wildfires. Johnson did not say what kind of conditions he would like to see on the disaster relief, but said it appears “state and local leaders were derelict in their duty in many respects.” It […]
President-elect Donald Trump said on day 1 of his administration the border will be closed and criminals deported, calling it “common sense,” The Washington Times reports. “It’s going to be closed very strongly. It’s going to be closed and we’re going to have to take people out that are criminals,” Trump told reporters Wednesday evening. “We have people from […]