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FIRST ON FOX – House GOP Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., penned a scathing letter to the leaders of Harvard University, alleging that by slow-walking its investigation into the assault of a Jewish student on campus in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, the Ivy League school will effectively allow one of the perpetrators to graduate “despite …

FIRST ON FOX: House Republicans’ campaign arm is announcing that it raised more than $33 million in the first three months of 2024. It comes as GOP leaders brace for battle to keep and even expand their razor-thin majority in the House of Representatives this November. “In a game of inches for the House majority where every seat matters, Republicans …

More than a dozen House GOP privacy hawks have blocked the House of Representatives from advancing a Speaker Mike Johnson-backed bill to renew a controversial federal government surveillance tool known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). It comes hours after former President Trump posted on Truth Social, “KILL FISA, IT WAS ILLEGALLY USED AGAINST ME AND …

FIRST ON FOX: House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., is gearing up to announce that he’s raised a whopping $12 million in the first three months of 2024 as the GOP braces for the battle to keep the House majority. It’s part of $36 million the No. 2 House Republican has raised so far during the 2024 election cycle, which …

Former President Donald Trump says the Arizona Republican Party’s recent pro-life legislation went “too far” after previously stating abortion issues should be left to the states. Trump spoke to reporters after landing in Georgia on Wednesday and was asked for his reaction to the Arizona Supreme Court’s ruling outlawing all non-lifesaving abortions. Asked Wednesday whether the state judges went “too …

FIRST ON FOX Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas upped his fundraising game the past three months as he faces a bruising re-election race this year for a third six-year term in the Senate. The conservative firebrand lawmaker brought in over $9.7 million during the January-March first quarter of 2024 fundraising, according to figures shared first with Fox News on …

Only in Congress can you be late and early at the same time. First, there was criticism that House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., didn’t push sending the articles of impeachment for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas after the House voted to impeach him in February. The argument was that the Senate wasn’t ready yet. Plus both chambers wanted to make …

The Senate on Wednesday afternoon voted in favor of passing a bill reversing the Biden administration’s actions mandating states to track and set reduction goals for greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles on highways. The chamber approved the resolution in a 53-47 vote in which Sens. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz.; Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio; Jon Tester, D-Mont.; and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., joined every …

FIRST ON FOX: A group of House Republicans is pressing New York City Mayor Eric Adams on whether any federal funds are being used for his city’s prepaid debit card program for migrants. Adams’ Immediate Response Card pilot program is aimed at giving asylum-seeking families about $350 per month on a prepaid debit card, at a total cost to the …

Former President Trump may haul in roughly $15 million at top dollar fundraisers Wednesday in Atlanta and Orlando, Florida, as the former president aims to take a big bite out of President Biden’s formidable campaign cash advantage in their 2024 election rematch. “My father has two fundraisers today….they’ll raise $15 million today. They’ve never seen fundraising numbers like this in …