A majority of Texas House Republicans asked President Joe Biden to declare an emergency at the southern border, according to a letter obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation Wednesday. Fourteen of Texas’ 23 Republican representatives signed on to the letter penned by Rep. Lance Gooden asking Biden to approve Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s request for a federal emergency declaration in response to the border crisis, according to the letter. The Republicans cited a massive influx of around 16,000 migrants, mostly from Haiti , who established a temporary camp under an international bridge in Del Rio, Texas, over the weekend. “The crisis at the border has reached a tipping point. The president can no longer deny an emergency exists, and Texas cannot be expected to continue shouldering the cost of securing our southern border,” Gooden told the DCNF. “President Biden must grant the governor’s request for a federal emergency declaration.” Texas National Guard Soldiers & …
EXCLUSIVE: Top Republican Explains How Biden’s Budget Package Raises Taxes, Hurts Working Class
The highest-ranking Republican on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee slammed Democrats’ massive trillion-dollar budget reconciliation package, arguing it raises taxes on working class Americans. Ways and Means Ranking Member Kevin Brady said the $3.5 trillion legislation, titled the Build Back Better Act, would fuel inflation, devastate small business and set the U.S. back economically relative to competing nations. “There is a steep price that Americans will pay for this bill,” Brady told the Daily Caller News Foundation in an interview. “Our government has never wasted so much money that kills so many American jobs, drives prices even higher and hooks a whole new generation of the poor on government dependency.” The highest-ranking Republican on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee slammed Democrats’ massive trillion-dollar budget reconciliation package, arguing it raises taxes on working class Americans. Ways and Means Ranking Member Kevin Brady said …
Trump “succeeded” where Russia failed by attacking election integrity, ex-GOP Arizona AG says
Arizona's former Attorney General Grant Wood slammed the election misinformation spread by former President Donald Trump and his right-wing allies, saying they have "succeeded" where Russia and other enemies of the U.S. have previously failed. Wood served as Arizona's attorney general from 1991 to 1999 when he identified as a Republican, and later became a Democrat in 2018. The former GOP official's remarks came in response to the results of the controversial Cyber Ninjas audit of Arizona's Maricopa County's 2020 election results—which reaffirmed President Joe Biden 's victory over Trump. The Cyber Ninjas audit had been launched by Arizona Senate Republicans due to Trump's baseless claims of widespread voter fraud. "Part of the irony here from these so-called true blue—red, white and blue Americans—is that this has always been the goal of Russia and of our enemies abroad who couldn't defeat us in any other way. They wanted us to try to fall from within when we as a people …
City Arrest Tactics, Used on Protesters, Face Test in Court
New York City has one memento from the 2004 Republican National Convention that seems destined to last: an especially bitter dispute over the city's methods and motives in detaining hundreds of protesters, well beyond the ordinary legal time limit of 24 hours, without the usual access to lawyers. At times, the Police Department kept people in custody for two days or more before issuing them tickets for offenses like disorderly conduct. Led by a vigorous defense from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, city officials say they did their best under a sudden and extraordinary flood of arrests, acknowledging that bystanders may have been swept up. Lawyers for a number of protesters say what the city did amounted to illegal preventive detention, a calculated effort to limit the chances of confrontation and possible embarrassment. The full dimensions of the dispute may emerge in a contempt-of-court hearing for the city on Sept. 27, and in civil lawsuits that have been filed or are threatened. …
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Betsy DeVos gives veiled Trump criticism, says GOP movement not dependent on “any one person”
Former U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos offered veiled criticism of former President Donald Trump on Saturday, saying she worries that "principles have been overtaken by personalities" in the Republican Party during a GOP conference in Michigan. She said the GOP movement is not "dependent on any one person," although she did not name the former president, while speaking in an address on Mackinac Island, the Detroit Free Press reported. "Politics now are so often about people, not the policies that impact lives directly," she said, according to the newspaper. DeVos served in her role throughout most of the Trump administration before resigning January 7 following the riot at the U.S. Capitol. She cited the former presidents' rhetoric as an "inflection point," though some accused her of resigning to avoid calls to push for Trump's removal using the 25th amendment. "We should be highlighting and celebrating your Administration's many accomplishments on behalf of the …
51 percent of Americans believe Capitol riots were attempted coup: poll
A slim majority of Americans believe the attack on the U.S. Capitol by President Donald Trump 's supporters was an attempted coup, a new poll shows. Hundreds of Trump's supporters attacked the nation's Capitol on Wednesday after the president encouraged them to march to the building and confront lawmakers, who were convened to certify President-elect Joe Biden 's Electoral College victory. Trump told his supporters that they should "fight much harder," while his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani said he wanted "trial by combat." New polling by Ipsos released on Thursday found that 51 percent of Americans view the actions of Trump's supporters as an attempted coup. Additionally, 70 percent of Americans said they opposed the violent insurrection. At the same time, the polling found that 19 percent of American backed the riot, while 31 percent said the protests were necessary to protect the nation. Similar polling released by YouGov on Thursday morning showed that 45 percent …
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Why did an IRA splinter group get named in a gang war?
World Ireland IRA Republicans Gangs The weigh-in before one of the Clash of the Clans fights on February 5 at the Regency Hotel in Dublin looked like the prelude to any other low-level boxing match. Shaky amateur footage from the event shows the crowd's favorite, 25-year-old Jamie Kavanagh, stepping down from the scales. He is wearing blue briefs emblazoned with the Superman logo. Suddenly, gunshots erupt, drowning out the heavy metal music blaring in the background. Kavanagh, along with other spectators, runs across the room in fear. Outside the venue, a child is heard saying: "Daddy, help me. Daddy, Daddy, what was that?" At least six men stormed the event that day, shooting dead a 33-year-old man named David Byrne and injuring two other people before fleeing. As police began investigating, the BBC received a surprising claim of responsibility. On February 8, a call came in to the British broadcaster. The man identified himself by using a code word. He was a …
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Why a New Mexico House Race Is a Crucial Test of the G.O.P. Focus on Crime
ALBUQUERQUE — In theory, the special election to fill Interior Secretary Deb Haaland ’s seat in the House should not be competitive. President Biden carried the Albuquerque-based district by 23 points last year, and there has not been a close race for Congress here since George W. Bush was president. Democrats in Washington and New Mexico , however, are not taking any chances ahead of the election Tuesday. They have flooded Melanie Stansbury , their nominee, with an infusion of late money, dispatched Jill Biden and Doug Emhoff to appear with her in the state, and sought to energize volunteers on her behalf. “This race is the highest priority for us,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told nearly a thousand national progressive activists on a conference call Thursday night, adding: “Any victory is good, but we want a nice, decisive victory.” Ms. Pelosi’s eagerness to notch a resounding win reflects the party’s anxiety over one of the most pressing challenges it faces: defusing …
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Judge slams Gov. Abbott “shamelessly taking his orders” from Trump on Texas election audits
A Texas judge blasted Governor Greg Abbott for "taking his orders" from Donald Trump over the announcement that there would be audits into the state's presidential election results—which followed a request for a review from the former president. The Texas Secretary of State announced the audit into the results from Dallas, Harris, Tarrant and Collin counties on Thursday. It came just after Trump urged Abbott to conduct an audit into the state's election results. "Despite my big win in Texas, I hear Texans want an election audit!" the former president wrote in a letter to Abbott on Thursday. "You know your fellow Texans have big questions about the November 2020 Election." Following the announcement, some Texas county judges expressed frustration, saying they do not know what the audits entail and that they learned about them through a press release from the office of the secretary of state, The Texas Tribune reported. "This is a weak Governor openly and shamelessly …
Democrats’ Spending Fight Carries High Stakes for Their Candidates
WASHINGTON — With President Biden’s approval ratings falling below 50 percent after the most trying stretch of his young administration, pushing through his ambitious legislative agenda has taken on a new urgency for Democratic lawmakers. Recognizing that a president’s popularity is the best indicator for how his party will fare in the midterm elections, Democrats are confronting a stark prospect: If Mr. Biden doesn’t succeed in the halls of Congress this fall, it could doom his party’s majorities at the polls next fall. Not that such a do-or-die dilemma is itself sufficient to stop Democrats’ intraparty squabbling, which the president on Friday termed a “stalemate.” Divisions between moderates and liberals over the substance, the price tag and even the legislative timing of Mr. Biden’s twin priorities, a bipartisan public works bill and broader social welfare legislation, could still undermine the proposals. But it is increasingly clear to Democratic officials that beyond …
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