Federal disaster aid is becoming a political football, with both parties trading accusations over the failure to pass more disaster relief as part of a government funding deal last month amid back-to-back hurricanes. Some Republican lawmakers are accusing the Biden-Harris administration of dragging their feet on providing disaster relief funding to hard-hit areas in Florida, […]

Former President Donald Trump railed against the Biden-Harris administration, saying they “abandoned” Americans in North Carolina who still need help after Hurricane Helene ravaged the state. “The GREAT people of North Carolina are being stood up by Harris and Biden, who are giving almost all of the FEMA money to Illegal Migrants in what is now considered to be […]

Despite a wave of Republican opposition, the House on Wednesday passed a stopgap spending bill well ahead of the Oct. 1 government shutdown deadline. The three-month spending patch then easily passed in the Democrat-run Senate, and the White House signaled its support for it.  Speaker Mike Johnson had to rely on Democrats to pass the bill as his option of […]

The House handed Speaker Mike Johnson an expected defeat Wednesday, voting down his stopgap, six-month funding bill that requires proof of citizenship to vote.  “I’m already talking to colleagues about their many ideas. We have time to fix the situation,” Johnson said. Though most Republicans supported the push to again force Democrats to consider the SAVE Act, some were unwilling […]

Republicans on the House Administration Committee grilled a bipartisan panel of state officials Wednesday on how they will ensure safe and secure elections, as concerns about voter fraud in the 2020 election persist. Secretaries of state from Arizona, Florida, Ohio, Michigan, New Mexico, and West Virginia appeared at the hearing titled “American Confidence in Elections: Looking Ahead to the 2024 General Election.”  […]