‘Respect our warriors’: House GOP veteran proposes key benefit to aid deployed service members
Exclusive: An Army veteran and member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee introduced a bill Thursday that would eliminate the tax for all U.S. military personnel deployed overseas. Rep. Warren Davidson's (R-Ohio) bill, the “BRAVE Act,” would amend the IRS Code to expand the exemption beyond designated combat zones to all non-permanently deployed military personnel […]
Small Pennsylvania town up in arms over plan to house hundreds of migrants in abandoned school
A small Pennsylvania town is fighting back against a proposal to turn an abandoned Civil War-era school into a shelter for hundreds of immigrant families, with residents and lawmakers vowing to thwart a “foreign invasion.” News of plans to convert the former Scottish Veterans Children's School building in Franklin County into a migrant shelter emerged […]
Chinese maritime cranes pose national security risk at ports, House GOP warns
Republican lawmakers on the Select Committee on Communist China warned in a staff report on Friday that U.S. reliance on Chinese-made offshore cranes poses national security risks because the cranes' built-in modems allow them to be controlled remotely. The committee said the discovery was alarming because the modems were “hidden” and “unauthorized” and had not […]
Army officials to face House grilling on training slides that designated pro-life groups as terrorists
Exclusive House Republicans plan to summon Army officials to testify at a hearing next week about a training presentation that called pro-life groups terrorists, Fox News Digital reported. The House Armed Services Committee's Military Personnel Subcommittee is scheduled to hear from Agnes Schaefer, Under Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, and Lt. […]
House GOP rolling out bill to block China from accessing US ports
First appeared on FOX: Republican Rep. Michelle Steele has introduced legislation that would block China and other American adversaries from accessing U.S. ports. Steele, a California Republican and member of the House Select Committee on China, introduced the Port Security Act, which would ban companies wholly or partially owned by state-owned enterprises of China, Russia, […]
Texas Officers Rescue Children from House Fire in Nick of Time
Two Vidor, Texas, police officers narrowly rescued a 7-year-old and a 9-year-old child from a fire in their home on Tuesday. Officers were first on scene after receiving reports of a fire at a home at 12 Pin Oak Street shortly before 2 a.m. Reported On Thursday. At the scene, the boys' mother told Officers […]
White House photographers decry ‘unprecedented reduction in access’ to Kamala Harris
The White House Press Photographers Association denounced the “unprecedented curtailment of access” to Vice President Kamala Harris and sent a letter to aides and the campaign urging them to allow more photojournalists around the Democratic presidential nominee. WHNPA President Jessica Koscielniak expressed concern about the reduction in seats for reporters and photographers on Air Force […]
White House: Loomer mocking Harris’s Indian heritage is ‘racist poison’
The White House on Thursday blasted right-wing activist Laura Loomer for mocking Vice President Harris' Indian ancestry. Loomer, a former congressional candidate, recently said on social media that if Harris wins the election, “the White House will smell like curry and White House speeches will be delivered via a call center.” Asked about the remarks […]
A Decision to Make: House Speaker Mike Johnson’s government funding bill divides Republicans
That came just minutes after the House finally ended a three-week battle that culminated in the election of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) last fall. The House voted to remove former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from his position but not before thoroughly eliminating three other candidates for speaker. I asked a House Republican leader what […]
Harris campaign silent on House bill banning contracts with ‘Chinese military company’ amid Walz ties
Seventy-nine Democrats voted against a bill that would effectively ban Chinese military companies from doing federal business in the United States, but Gov. Tim Walz's campaign did not state a position on the bill due to concerns about Gov. Tim Walz's ties to a research lab that does business with one of the companies targeted […]