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 […]