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(Washington, DC) — President Biden is slamming Republicans for blocking a border security bill in the Senate yesterday. Biden in a statement claimed that Republicans don’t care about securing the U.S.-Mexico border and want to exploit the issue leading up to the November elections. Senators voted 43 to 50 to tank the proposal negotiated by a group of Democratic and Republican senators. The legislation also failed earlier this year following opposition from Donald Trump. Biden said the bill would have hired more Border Patrol agents and personnel and provide funding for technology to stop fentanyl trafficking. This article…
On the second anniversary of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, the Biden campaign released a new digital ad that hammers former President Donald Trump on gun control.”We honor those we lost in Uvalde,” the ad says in text that appears over a black screen. As “Ave Maria” plays, the text continues, and an altar memorializing the 19 children and two teachers in the 2022 massacre appears and then transitions to photos of President Biden and first lady Jill Biden visiting Uvalde soon afterward. “Joe Biden expanded background checks, and is fighting to ban assault weapons,” the…
Nikki Haley says who she plans to vote for in 2024 presidential election CNNBiden campaign official meets with Haley supporters hours after she said she’d vote for Trump CNNTrump suggests Nikki Haley will be on his team ‘in some form’ after vote pledge The Washington PostOpinion | Nikki Haley, Ever Pragmatic, Tries to Keep Her Options Open The New York TimesTrump says Republican Party is ‘coming together’ after Nikki Haley voices support Fox News This article was originally published by a www.cnn.com . Read the Original article here. .
T-R PHOTO BY ROBERT MAHARRY Republican Iowa Senate District 26 candidates Gannon Hendrick, left, and Kara Warme, second from left, and House District 51 hopefuls Brett Barker, second from right, and Marty Chitty, right, participated in a forum hosted by the Marshalltown Area Chamber of Commerce at Dejardin Hall on the MCC campus Thursday night. A total of four Republican candidates hoping to represent the area in the Iowa Legislature took the stage during a forum hosted by the Marshalltown Area Chamber of Commerce at Dejardin Hall on the Marshalltown Community College (MCC) campus on Thursday night, sharing their qualifications…
Topline The jury in former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial is expected to start deliberating on Wednesday as his trial comes to a close, meaning Trump may become the first former president convicted of a crime as soon as next week depending on their ruling—setting the ex-president up for a potential prison sentence, though legal experts believe that may be unlikely. Former President Donald Trump sits in the courtroom for his criminal trial at Manhattan Criminal … [+] Court on May 21 in New York City.Getty Images Key Facts Trump faces 34 felony charges of falsifying business records, based on…
A veteran tactician who worked on Ronald Reagan’s campaign. An ex-Marine wounded in the Middle East. The former voice of UFC cage-fighting. A golf caddie turned social media maestro.Meet Donald Trump’s election A-team.They are among a handful of distinctive figures who form a tight, disciplined inner circle around the former U.S. president in his bid for the White House, according to interviews with more than a dozen people close to the Trump campaign including current and former officials, donors and strategists. This article was originally published by a www.japantimes.co.jp . Read the Original article here. .
A group of Republican senators is demanding that the IRS investigate a number of nonprofits supporting any pro-Hamas unrest on American campuses to see if their tax-exempt statuses should be revoked. Headed up by U.S. Sen Joni Ernst, a Republican from Iowa, 16 senators signed their names to a May 9 letter to IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel obtained by Just the News. “We write to demand you open an investigation to determine if the supporters of the National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP)…have engaged in conduct warranting revocation of their tax-exempt statuses on the basis of their financial support…
Manhattan prosecutors won’t be penalized for a last-minute document dump that caused former President Donald Trump’s hush money criminal trial to start later than scheduled, a judge ruled Thursday.Judge Juan Merchan rejected the defense’s request that prosecutors be sanctioned for a deluge of nearly 200,000 pages of evidence just weeks before the trial’s scheduled start. The documents were from a previous federal investigation into the matter. Merchan agreed to delay the start of the trial from March 25 to April 15 to allow the former president’s lawyers to review the material. But at a hearing in March, he rejected their…
Illustration: Ryan Melgar This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Miriam Adelson often tells a story from her childhood: Around 1950, when she was 4 or 5 years old and the state of Israel itself was one or two, she wanted to dress up for Purim as Queen Esther. Esther, the Tanakh tells us, was a beautiful Jewish woman who married gentile King Ahasuerus. She used her bravery, smarts, and station to thwart a plot to slaughter the Jews. But Miriam didn’t get to be Esther. Her…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans again blocked a bill meant to clamp down on the number of migrants allowed to claim asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer sought Thursday to underscore GOP resistance to the proposal.The legislation, negotiated by a bipartisan group of senators, was already rejected by most Republicans in February when it was linked to a foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies. But with immigration and border security becoming one of the top issues of this year’s election, Democrats are looking for an answer to the barrage of GOP…