Tue Feb 11, 2025 AT 9:20 AM EST
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 able to get into the systems and open the literal files and expose this stuff,” Johnson said.
Federal judges have temporarily halted several of President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders after dozens of lawsuits were filed challenging his actions. Read Full Story
Tue Feb 4, 2025 AT 10:02 AM EST
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 citizenship lawsuits, asking judges to deny emergency requests made by several blue states and immigration advocates to block the controversial order from taking effect.
The Republican lawmakers argued that the order, which Trump issued on his first day in office, correctly interpreted the citizenship clause of the Constitution, which states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.”
Trump’s order would reverse the government’s 150-year-old practice of granting automatic citizenship to children born to mothers living in the United States illegally or to noncitizen mothers who temporarily visit the United States. Read Full Story
Fri Jan 24, 2025 AT 9:56 AM EST
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 has kept National Guard and state troopers deployed for years.
They helped with arrests of more than 500,000 illegal immigrants, including 50,000 criminal arrests, and seized more than a half-billion doses of fentanyl.
“In short, Texas stepped up where the federal government refused and in doing so protected all Americans from President Biden’s dangerous policies,” Abbott said in a letter asking for repayment.
Sen. John Cornyn, Texas’s senior Republican senator, said he backed the governor’s request and will fight to get a rebate for the state. Read Full Story