Nearly 30 vulnerable House Democrats voted for a bill Wednesday to deport illegal immigrants who commit sex crimes, signaling a shift in the party’s focus on the migrant crisis as the November elections draw near. The Republican-led bill passed 266 to 158, with 51 Democrats voting with GOP lawmakers. Democratic critics of the bill have accused it of unfairly targeting …
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Show vote: Republicans make political statement in going against Speaker Johnson
It was a “show vote” of a different kind in the House of Representatives Wednesday night. The vote showed which Republicans opposed a combination bill to avoid a government shutdown and require that people prove they are citizens to vote. It’s known as the SAVE Act. “You’ve got to own your votes,” said Rep. Chip Roy, R-Tex., who advocated the …
Read More »Shutdown fears move House Republicans to protect military paychecks
FIRST ON FOX: House Republicans are moving to protect U.S. service members’ paychecks in the event of a partial government shutdown. Rep. Jen Kiggans, R-Va., is re-introducing her Pay Our Troops Act on Thursday, with support from at least 20 fellow House lawmakers – 16 Republicans and four Democrats. It comes a day after more than a dozen House GOP …
Read More »Trump has 'presidential level' Secret Service protection, lawmakers told
Former President Trump had presidential-level security in place when officers foiled an attempt on his life last weekend, the U.S. Secret Service told lawmakers on Wednesday. The House task force probing the July 13 shooting at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, received a briefing from USSS after the incident at the ex-president’s golf course on Sunday. During that briefing, …
Read More »GOP lawmakers wrestle with emergency Secret Service funding amid government shutdown fight
House Republicans are toying with the idea of attaching additional U.S. Secret Service (USSS) funds to a short-term spending patch aimed at avoiding an Oct. 1 partial government shutdown. Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is teeing up a vote Wednesday evening on his plan to avert a shutdown, a six-month spending patch called a continuing resolution (CR), which is being paired …
Read More »House GOP braces for government funding chaos as Republican rebels mutiny before vote
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is forging ahead with a vote on his plan to avert a government shutdown and force tighter U.S. election measures through Congress on Wednesday. Johnson was forced to cancel a vote on the measure last week after it hemorrhaged GOP support for days after being unveiled. Multiple sources who spoke with Fox News Digital on Tuesday …
Read More »158 Dems vote against bill to deport illegal immigrants who commit sex crimes
More than 150 House Democrats voted against a bill that would deport illegal immigrants convicted of a sexual offense or conspiracy to commit such a crime. The Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act passed the House of Representatives along bipartisan lines on Wednesday. All present Republicans voted for the bill, as did 51 Democratic lawmakers. The measure passed 266 …
Read More »Johnson's plan to avoid government shutdown goes down in flames as Republicans rebel
House Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan to avert a partial government shutdown failed on Wednesday. It was voted down 202 to 220, with two Republicans – Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Thomas Massie, R-Ky. – voting “present.” At least nine Republicans voted against House GOP leadership’s bill, a six-month extension of the current year’s federal funding levels coupled with a …
Read More »Bipartisan House duo cracks down on gun trafficking at US-Mexico border
EXCLUSIVE: A bipartisan House duo is rolling out a plan on Wednesday to crack down on gun trafficking at the U.S.-Mexico border. Reps. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., and Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, are leading a bill that would beef up manpower at outbound inspection points at the southern border and require inspections for at least 10% of outbound transport from the U.S. …
Read More »Speaker Johnson warns illegal immigrant voting could 'throw an election' as House readies spending bill vote
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is warning that “thousands” of people residing in the U.S. illegally could shift the tides in the upcoming U.S. elections. While speaking to reporters at his weekly press conference on Wednesday, Johnson pointed out that several members of the House GOP won their elections by just a few hundred votes – or less, as in …
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