Category: USA
Senate border budget triumphs after all-night session while Trump-backed House bill lags
Fox News Senate Republicans scored a win over their House counterparts in the early morning hours of Friday, officially passing their preferred budget resolution to tackle some of President Trump’s priorities, such as securing the southern border. After hours of back-to-back voting on Democratic amendments, the bill to fund border security, energy and defense finally…
Read MoreEXCLUSIVE: Red state governor says DOGE aligns with GOP’s ‘fiscal sanity’
Fox News EXCLUSIVE: Governors from across the country are descending upon Washington, D.C., this week for the National Governors Association’s winter meeting. Among them is Gov. Tate Reeves, R-Miss., who said the Department of Government Efficiency has renewed Republican governors’ optimism in the federal government. Reeves, who was elected governor of Mississippi in 2019 and…
Read MoreNew law clamps down on homeless as blue city advocate admits the ‘frustration’ is justified
Fox News A blue California city voted last week to impose a strict ban on camping on public property, including penalties such as fines or jail time for those “causing, permitting, aiding, abetting, or concealing” homeless encampments. While activists argue the ordinance “criminalizes” homelessness, one advocate — who himself once struggled with drug addiction and…
Read MoreFederal judge orders Trump admin to comply with previous order to lift foreign aid freeze
Fox News A federal judge on Thursday ordered Trump administration officials to comply with his previous order to temporarily lift a freeze on nearly all foreign aid, temporarily restoring it to programs worldwide. In his order, Judge Amir H. Ali, a Biden appointee, said Trump administration officials had used his Feb. 13 order to temporarily…
Read MoreTrump Names ‘Pardon Czar’ to Advise on Clemency
New York Times President Trump commuted Alice Johnson’s life sentence during his first term, and later pardoned her for her drug conviction. She will advise him on similar cases. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/us/politics/trump-pardon-czar-johnson.html
Read MoreOvernight ‘Vote-a-Rama’ in the Senate Frames a Contentious Budget Debate
New York Times Before adopting Republicans’ budget resolution, senators were engaging in an all-night parliamentary marathon that Democrats used to try to force the G.O.P. into politically damaging votes. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/us/politics/senate-vote-budget.html
Read MoreJustice Dept. to Drop Discrimination Case Against Elon Musk’s SpaceX
New York Times The Justice Department had sued SpaceX in 2023, accusing the company of violating federal law by refusing to hire refugees and people granted asylum in the United States. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/us/politics/spacex-elon-musk-discrimination-doj.html
Read MoreTrump Claims Power to Fire Administrative Law Judges at Will
New York Times The Justice Department said a law protecting the officials from arbitrary removal is an unconstitutional intrusion on presidential authority. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/us/politics/trump-power-administrative-law-judges.html
Read MoreFormer Sheriff’s Deputy Is Convicted in Killing of Colorado Man
New York Times Andrew Buen was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the 2022 killing of Christian Glass, who was experiencing a mental health crisis on a mountain road. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/us/colorado-deputy-christian-glass-shooting.html
Read MoreTrump’s DOGE stays on track after pair of federal judge rulings
Fox News Two federal judges declined this week to stop the Trump administration from firing federal workers and conducting mass layoffs, allowing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to remain on track with finding and slashing wasteful government spending. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper shot down a request from several federal labor unions,…
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