Category: USA
California Issues Order to Ease Housing Crisis Set Off by Fires
New York Times An executive order from Gov. Gavin Newsom cleared the way for more temporary housing and prohibited price gouging at rental properties to aid thousands of displaced residents. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/us/california-housing-order-wildfires.html
Read MoreTrump’s House GOP allies demand swift confirmation of Cabinet picks amid delays
Fox News FIRST ON FOX: A group of House Republicans is urging the Senate to act fast on confirming President-elect Trump’s Cabinet nominees amid dramatic hearings and some recent delays in the process. “As elected officials, Congress is tasked with reflecting the will of the American people. The results of last November make clear that…
Read MoreTrump’s ‘blacklist’: President-elect describes the type of people he doesn’t want to hire
Fox News Days away from his upcoming Jan. 20 inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump declared in a Truth Social post that the incoming administration had already hired more than 1,000 people to work for the U.S. government. He also indicated that individuals who have worked with or been backed by “people suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome,”…
Read MoreDem Massachusetts governor now wants to limit illegals in crime-ridden migrant shelters
Fox News Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey is hardening her approach to the state’s migrant crisis in the face of mounting safety concerns and just days before President-elect Trump is sworn into office. Healey, a Democrat, is proposing drastic changes to how the state houses migrants by proposing that all families staying in emergency shelters be in the…
Read MoreBiden warns of ‘ultra-wealthy’ ‘oligarchy’ despite accepting donations from Dem mega-donors
Fox News President Biden warned in his farewell speech of an “ultra-wealthy” “oligarchy” posing a threat to America as big tech CEOs have been warming up to President-elect Trump in recent months — despite his own administration accepting donations from Democratic mega-donors. Biden spoke Wednesday as reports emerged this week that Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos…
Read MoreComer calls out Biden’s ‘failure’ to get federal employees to return to the office, vows to get it done
Fox News Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., isn’t playing around when it comes to bringing federal employees back to the office. In the committee’s first hearing of the 119th Congress, Comer delivered remarks slamming the Biden administration’s “failure” to get federal employees back to the office. “When President Trump’s team enters federal agency…
Read MoreHouse Freedom Caucus to draw battle lines on reconciliation fight after presenting plan to Trump
Fox News FIRST ON FOX: The conservative House Freedom Caucus is preparing to release a proposal for Republicans’ planned conservative policy overhaul that would raise the debt limit by two years or roughly $4 trillion, Fox News Digital is told. Congressional Republicans are preparing for a massive conservative policy overhaul through the budget reconciliation process.…
Read MoreThe House Democrat who wants Trump to go big on tariffs
Washington Post As most Democrats slam Trump’s tariffs, Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) is defending the president-elect in Congress. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/16/trump-tariffs-golden-democrats/
Read MoreHouse Dems push Garland to drop charges, release second part of Jack Smith report
Fox News House Judiciary Democrats penned a letter Wednesday asking outgoing U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to drop the charges against President-elect Donald Trump’s former co-defendants in the classified documents case. They want Trump’s valet Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, the property manager of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, to walk from…
Read More‘Our agents are relentless’: Feds shut down cross-border tunnel used by Mexican cartels for smuggling into US
Fox News U.S. and Mexican law enforcement worked together to locate and shut down a man-made cross-border tunnel used by cartels to smuggle cargo into the U.S. across the southern border — complete with lighting and ventilation. Border Patrol in El Paso, Texas, discovered the tunnel on Thursday. In a statement, Customs and Border Protection…
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