Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected to warn the current interim administration in Venezuela that if it fails to adequately cooperate with the Trump administration, the U.S. will not hesitate to use more military action against the South American country. Rubio plans to make the comments during a hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations […]
Border czar Tom Homan revealed he had a “productive” meeting on Tuesday with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. Homan’s meeting was in response to the controversy surrounding the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti. Homan was deployed to Minnesota by President Donald Trump to deescalate political tensions stemming from Pretti’s death. […]
A man interrupted Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) as she was speaking at a town hall event and sprayed her with an unknown substance. Omar was hosting a town hall event in North Minneapolis on Tuesday evening when a man in a black jacket rushed toward the podium and sprayed her with a liquid. Security guards […]
President Donald Trump spent Tuesday in Iowa, underscoring his strong private sector meant less need for government hiring, while 900 miles away in Washington, senators were calling for him to put at least one government official’s job on the chopping block: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Under the shadow cast by last weekend’s second fatal shooting of an anti-immigration law enforcement protester […]
Negotiations to avert a partial government shutdown are being complicated by Democratic demands that any changes to Immigration and Customs Enforcement policy be written into law by Congress. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) drew the red line on Tuesday as he called for immigration agents to leave Minneapolis after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti over the […]
Former Washington, D.C., Councilman Jack Evans is launching a comeback bid for the district council six years after his resignation from the governing body. Evans is running for the chairman spot in a direct challenge to current Chairman Phil Mendelson. Evans and Mendelson, both Democrats, were colleagues on the D.C. Council before Mendelson voted unanimously […]
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) became one of the first Republican lawmakers Tuesday to demand the “termination” of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem amid mounting frustration over the fatal shootings of two citizens by federal immigration officers in Minnesota. Tillis, who is not seeking reelection in November, said he’d lost “all” confidence in Noem and has […]
President Donald Trump is jumping into Indiana’s Republican primaries to purge foes of his redistricting push — a show of force inside the GOP even as his administration works to shore up softening public support for its handling of the economy and deportations. The endorsements amount to a test of Trump’s political clout at a […]
The GOP has taken a mixed response to President Donald Trump‘s efforts to tamp down violent interactions between Minnesota protesters and Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. Many Republicans championed Trump sending border czar Tom Homan to Minnesota in the aftermath of a second protester’s death over the weekend. But other MAGA supporters have slammed Trump’s […]
Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) and Tom Suozzi (D-NY) sent a letter Tuesday renewing a meeting request with President Donald Trump to discuss immigration and border security issues in the wake of the Minneapolis shootings. Fitzpatrick and Suozzi, co-chairmen of the Problem Solvers Caucus who both sit in competitive congressional seats, are making a bipartisan effort […]
