(The Center Square) – Lawmakers have prevented a government shutdown by passing a six-month funding stopgap bill, with the U.S. Senate voting 54-46 hours before the midnight deadline. The passage of the Continuing Resolution follows a nail-biter cloture vote Friday afternoon, where nine Democrats and one independent ultimately voted for Republicans’ Continuing Resolution, which needed 60 votes […]
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CBP closes temporary processing centers, launches new phone app (The Center Square) – Illegal border crossings dropped to their lowest level for the month of February in recorded history, according to the latest U.S. Customs and Border Protection data. In February, 28,654 encounters and apprehensions of illegal border crossers were reported nationwide – a roughly 90% […]
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When the Biden administration announced $27 billion in environmental grants last April, it set the clock ticking on a predicament: how to get the unprecedented sums for the President’s envisioned NetZero future out the door before the fiscal year ended on Sept. 30? The task was complicated by the fact most of the […]
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Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is the right man to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the best man to calm the rough political waters overwhelming health care and scientific integrity. Hysteria ‘lives loudly’ in the Trump 2.0 resistance. The legacy media, Democrats, and many in the old establishment are untethered from reality; the […]
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President Donald Trump is wading through a sea of legal challenges from federal judges intent on blocking his attempts to audit the federal government, reduce wasteful spending, stem the flow of taxpayer dollars overseas, and end birthright citizenship. While Trump has secured a small number of legal victories, he is being blocked on multiple fronts […]
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An interparty feud between Democratic leaders has broken out between the House and Senate members after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said that he would be voting for the Republican-led so-called “clean” continuing resolution that will fund the government for the remainder of the fiscal year which ends Sept. 30. The chaos began when Schumer appeared […]
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Business agency is moving offices out of sanctuary cities of Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, New York City and Seattle Of the many priorities announced by Small Business Administration Administrator Kelly Loeffler, several eliminate policies implemented by the Biden administration that diverted taxpayer money from American small businesses to illegal border crossers. Loeffler’s policies support President […]
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Labor unions representing federal workers are facing another challenge to collective bargaining rights – and even their very existence – in a newly introduced Republican bill meant to prevent American taxpayer dollars from subsidizing union costs. The Federal Workforce Freedom Act would prohibit federal employees from organizing or joining labor unions in order to collectively bargain, as […]
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Democrats are getting weirder and weirder. And not just the ones on the outside, protesting just about everything that Trump does. But the ones inside the United States Capitol as well. I’m kinda confused about why anybody (except the beneficiaries) would protest stopping fraud. Yet the Democrats and their outside agitators continue to do so. […]
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The historic first steps towards peace in Ukraine are apparently being taken with both Ukraine and Russia appear to agree to a 30-day ceasefire, first with Ukraine at a March 11 meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and later Russia after U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff met with […]