Several Democratic lawmakers marched to Senate Majority Leader John Thune‘s (R-SD) and House Speaker Mike Johnson‘s (R-LA) offices after Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) was wrestled out of a Department of Homeland Security press briefing and handcuffed Thursday. Padilla’s detainment, which came after he interrupted a press conference given by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, immediately […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) should run for governor, a sign Democrats are confident they will retain the governorship in New York. “Here’s my political advice for Elise Stefanik: Run, Elise, run,” Jeffries told reporters Thursday on Capitol Hill. Stefanik had been tapped to serve in the Trump administration […]
Former Los Angeles Police Officer Moses Castillo noted the similarities he sees between recent riots against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and the 1992 Rodney King riots. The LAPD has issued dispersal orders and curfews in parts of Los Angeles as protesters have set fires to cars, including Waymo taxis, thrown frozen water bottles […]
Federal immigration authorities will be on site at the FIFA Club World Cup in Miami starting this Saturday, but have maintained that they will be providing extra security for the event and not to arrest illegal immigrants. Federal police from the Department of Homeland Security agencies, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and U.S. Immigration and […]
EXCLUSIVE — Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) is reintroducing legislation aimed at reducing Chinese and other foreign influence in education, think tanks, and nonprofit groups during the Trump administration‘s crackdown on its economic rival. Gooden has introduced the bill, the Think Tank and Nonprofit Foreign Influence Disclosure Act, several times before, but it now comes at […]
President Lee Jae-myung is taking action to ease tensions between South Korea and the People’s Republic of China, hoping to enlist the regional power’s help improving relations with the regime to their north. Lee made this goal explicit during his phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday, in which he called on the […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is welcoming talks between the White House and Texas Republicans centered on redrawing the state’s House district lines ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Jeffries said the state is already gerrymandered in favor of Republicans and that redistricting could make GOP-held districts more competitive. “A lot of Democrats that we’ve […]
Sen. Rand Paul‘s (R-KY) feuding with the Trump administration has sparked GOP divisions over $150 billion in border money earmarked in President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” Paul, a fiscal hawk who chairs the Homeland Security Committee, threatened to slash that funding in half this week ahead of the release of legislative text, a move […]
The House passed legislation on Thursday that requires the District of Columbia to comply with all federal immigration laws, the first step to codifying a piece of President Donald Trump’s wider agenda to make Washington, D.C., “safe and beautiful” again. The District of Columbia Federal Immigration Compliance Act of 2025 passed the lower chamber, 234-194. […]
Congress handed President Donald Trump a victory in his administration’s fight against the fentanyl epidemic with the passage of legislation imposing steep penalties on smugglers caught moving fentanyl analogs into or throughout the United States. The House voted 321-104 on Thursday afternoon on the Senate-passed Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act. The bill will now go […]
