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GOP Sen. Mullin Drafting ‘Very Secret’ Border Bill with Democrats

Axios.com reports that at least one Republican senator is working with pro-immigration Democrats to draft a border bill for 2025. Detailed Thursday. Oklahoma Republican Markwayne Mullin told the outlet that his “serious” project was a priority for a fast-track reconciliation bill that is expected to inject billions of dollars into border security and enforcement in […]

Murphy: Why are Democrats acting as if DOGE is 'legitimate'?

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) appeared on a podcast and accused Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy of acting like the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Committee is “legitimate.” wondered why. “We've watched President Trump's first term, when nothing was real, when everything was false or fake, it wasn't Infrastructure Week, right? Since Parkland, he's never been […]

Ocasio-Cortez pokes fun at Trump's suggestion to 'keep trying' to lead Democrats

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (New York) has urged President-elect Trump to “keep trying” after she lost the top Democratic nomination for the House Oversight and Accountability Committee in the next Congress. I teased him for giving him a pep talk. “You know it's bad that even President Trump has a bad feeling about me,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote. […]

Jeffries suggests Democrats will oppose a 'clean' funding bill after Johnson's plan falters

House Majority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York indicated Wednesday that Democrats would oppose any federal spending bill that departs from the bipartisan agreement announced the day before, warning Republican leaders of risking a government shutdown. He accused them of breaking the agreement. In a short statement, Jeffries called out the growing conservative backlash against […]

Senate Democrats launch probe into Trump IRS nominee

Democratic senators on Wednesday launched an investigation into former Rep. Billy Long (R-Missouri), President-elect Trump's nominee to head the Internal Revenue Service. They want to know how he promoted a pandemic-era tax credit called the Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC), which is riddled with fraudulent claims and disrupted IRS operations. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron […]

WV Democrats say Biden’s ‘egregious’ pardon choices are ‘what we would expect from Trump’

The West Virginia Democratic Party condemned President Biden's last-minute selection of people to receive presidential pardons and said they expected similar action from his rival, President-elect Trump. In a statement released late Monday, local party leaders praised Biden for guiding the United States “through significant economic challenges,” while also praising those convicted of public corruption. […]