Last week, Republicans in Congress passed a framework for a proposed round of funding for ICE and Border Patrol. The measure was intended to end an impasse over Department of Homeland Security funding, which lapsed over 10 weeks ago. But the budgetary framework, which includes $70 billion for both agencies, came with a twist: No Democratic input needed. Republicans bypassed the normal…
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Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin has dismissed calls for the committee’s full “autopsy” report of the 2024 election to be released, saying that it would be “navel gazing” to focus on the historic loss for the party against President Donald Trump. On his podcast Pod Save America on Tuesday, Jon Favreau grilled Martin, asking the party leader why he reneged on his pledge in…
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Lawmakers and privacy advocates are demanding answers from the Trump administration about its weaponization of digital tools and popular web platforms to spy on critics and activists. Targets have included a student who attended a pro-Palestine protest and anonymous web users posting about President Donald Trump’s violent immigration crackdown, but the administration’s secret systems of…
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New polling has found that just 4 percent of Democratic voters support increasing military aid to Israel, marking a massive rift with congressional Democrats at a time when other polling has found that disapproval of Congress has tied its all-time high. The Economist/YouGov polling released this week found that only 11 percent of American adults say that the U.S. should increase military aid…
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Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee have sent a letter addressed to FBI Director Kash Patel demanding answers regarding a recent article in The Atlantic that alleges he regularly engages in excessive partying, drinking, and travel at the expense of taxpayers. “A damning and explosive report recently revealed that the men and women of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are…
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A top official from the Biden administration has said that he is supportive of President Donald Trump’s attack on Iran from June of last year and suggested that Joe Biden may have done the same if he had been elected to a second term in office. Amos Hochstein, senior energy adviser to Biden within the State Department, said that the Biden administration had modeled similar scenarios to last…
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