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Trump Delays Housing Bill Signing Demanding Action On SAVE America Act
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Trump Delays Housing Bill Signing Demanding Action On SAVE America Act

By: Cameron Arcand | Townhall President Donald Trump headed to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to stress his request for the SAVE America Act to pass. Trump was scheduled to arrive on the Hill earlier in the day to sign a bipartisan housing policy bill, but he canceled the signing until after the federal elections proposal makes it to his desk.  “Every election is important… They want a lot of communists to come in,” Trump said before the meeting. https://twitter.com/cspan/status/2069832157527208318 The elections bill has passed the House but continues to have a few Republican holdouts and Democratic backlash in the Senate, which is making it difficult to get the bill through.  READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT TOWNHALL
Trump Maintains GOP Kingmaker Status as Mamdani Expands Influence in New York
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Trump Maintains GOP Kingmaker Status as Mamdani Expands Influence in New York

By Ben Whedon | Just the News Mamdani’s wins seem to have established him as an increasingly potent force in shaping the direction of the Democratic Party moving forward while Trump’s merely reasserted his kingmaker status within the GOP. President Donald Trump’s last minute double endorsement of both candidates in the South Carolina Republican runoff helped him to avoid what would have been a crushing defeat on Tuesday evening. At the same time, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s preferred candidates managed to dominate their Democratic primaries and even oust prominent members of the conference. Mamdani’s wins seem to have established him as an increasingly potent force in shaping the direction of the Democratic Party moving forward while Trump’s merely reasserte...
DEA Whistleblower Says Biden Era Operation Let Million Fentanyl Pills Hit Streets
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DEA Whistleblower Says Biden Era Operation Let Million Fentanyl Pills Hit Streets

By Katherine Pugh | Just the News The scandal, mirroring that of the 2009-2011 Operation Fast and Furious, was used to gain intel for cases against major drug traffickers in an effort to eventually save more lives. A U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent has evidence that his agency and federal prosecutors let more than 1 million fentanyl pills flow onto the streets of New Mexico during the Biden era and then tried to silence him from testifying after he blew the whistle, the agent's lawyer tells Just the News. "DEA has a campaign that says one pill can kill, and so the DEA allowing this to happen was really significant. It was driven also by the US Attorney's Office in New Mexico," Attorney Tristan Leavitt, president of the Empower Oversight, whistleblower cent...
Trump Refuses FISA Extension Without Voter ID and Citizenship Measures
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Trump Refuses FISA Extension Without Voter ID and Citizenship Measures

By: Nick Givas | The Western Journal President Donald Trump said Monday that he will not support an extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act unless it includes his election integrity measure, the Save America Act. “The Dumocrats want FISA because that’s what they used to go after me for three years during my First Term!” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “I’m against FISA if it doesn’t come with The Save America Act (Full version!) firmly attached to it. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” The commander in chief outlined key provisions he wants passed, including voter ID and proof of citizenship as well as limited mail-in ballots for extreme circumstances. He added that the bill would ban biological men from playing in women’s sports and prevent transg...
Senate Approves $70 Billion Immigration Enforcement Funding Package
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Senate Approves $70 Billion Immigration Enforcement Funding Package

By Caitlyn Kim | NPR News This story was produced as part of the Colorado Capitol News Alliance. It first appeared at cpr.org. The U.S. Senate passed an approximately $70 billion funding bill for federal immigration enforcement, without any reforms, early Friday morning, 52-47. Colorado Sen. John Hickenlooper voted against the measure, while Sen. Michael Bennet missed the final passage vote and the preceding 18-hour marathon of back-to-back amendment votes known as a “vote-a-rama.” Instead, Bennet was back in Denver, where he hit the gubernatorial debate stage Thursday night for what he hopes will be his next job. A Bennet spokesperson noted that Bennet had returned to Washington, D.C., on Wednesday and filed amendments to the reconciliation bill. “When it ...
Senate Approves $70 Billion For ICE And Border Patrol After Months Of Delays
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Senate Approves $70 Billion For ICE And Border Patrol After Months Of Delays

By: Nathaniel Reed | Denver7 In a 5 a.m. vote, Senate approves three-year ICE and Border Patrol budget, rejecting multiple bids to kill Trump’s settlement fund. The Senate passed legislation to fund President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agencies early Friday morning, after weeks of delays and fierce backlash to an unrelated $1.776 billion settlement fund that threatened to derail the bill. Senators voted 52-47 for the $70 billion legislation to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol for the next three years, through the end of Trump’s term. The final vote came just before 5 a.m., after Republicans narrowly defeated multiple attempts by Democrats and Republicans to add language to the bill that would permanently ban Trump’s settlement fu...
Johnson Signals New Budget Package Could Advance SAVE America Act
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Johnson Signals New Budget Package Could Advance SAVE America Act

By Cameron Arcand | Townhall The next reconciliation bill will have a focus on mismanagement of taxpayer dollars, Speaker Mike Johnson proclaimed on Wednesday. Johnson also previously said the House could potentially add on the SAVE America Act, which already passed the House but struggles to make it out of the Senate due to the 60-vote threshold, he told Fox News on Saturday. https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee/status/2060757504217493706?s=20 “Republicans are really proud of our work to address fraud, waste, and abuse in government, as you know, and we continue to go forward that we're going to have a third reconciliation bill that comes up in the coming weeks, and you'll see further attention to it paid there,” the speaker said at a news conference on Wednesday...
Four GOP Lawmakers Join Democrats as House Passes Iran War Powers Resolution
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Four GOP Lawmakers Join Democrats as House Passes Iran War Powers Resolution

By Randy DeSoto | The Western Journal Four House Republicans sided with Democrats in a vote to halt military operations in the Middle East without further congressional approval. The vote for the resolution was 215 in favor and 208 against. The vote was described on the House website as “Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.” Not surprisingly, Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky was one of the four Republicans to join with Democrats, along with Reps. Tom Barrett of Michigan, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, and Warren Davidson of Ohio. https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/2062284377992675802?s=20 READ THE FULL ART...
DOJ Says Anti-Weaponization Fund Will Not Move Forward
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DOJ Says Anti-Weaponization Fund Will Not Move Forward

By Fred Lucas | The Daily Signal Amid skepticism from lawmakers—including some Republicans—acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told a House panel Tuesday that the Justice Department has scrapped its planned Anti-Weaponization Fund. The $1.776 billion fund stemmed from a settlement between President Donald Trump and the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax information. Blanche testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, days after a federal judge temporarily blocked the fund. Instead, Blanche said it will never move forward. Rep. Grace Meng, D-N.Y., the ranking Democrat on the subcommittee, asked: “We know that the department has agreed to pause this effort until at least June 12. I wan...
Congress Demands Answers From Denver And Boulder Over Sanctuary Policies
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Congress Demands Answers From Denver And Boulder Over Sanctuary Policies

By Mike Krause | Complete Colorado DENVER–Members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, along with a member of the Colorado congressional delegation, are demanding information from local authorities in Denver and Boulder on sanctuary policies the lawmakers say help shield criminal illegal aliens from deportation. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Immigration Subcommittee Chairman Tom McClintock (R-CA), and Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO) on Tuesday directed letters to Denver District Attorney John Walsh, Denver Sheriff Elias Diggins, and Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas. Jordan and McClintock also sent separate letters to Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty, Boulder County Sheriff Curtis Johnson, and Boulder Police Chief Stephen Redfearn. Evans...