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House Republicans said they are eager to question former special counsel Robert Mueller when he testifies in open session before two House panels next month.
While Democrats have spent weeks seeking an appearance from Mueller so they can ask about President Trump's efforts to obstruct his two-year investigation into Russian collusion during the 2016 presidential campaign, the GOP is planning a much different line of questioning.
The situation at America's southern border is a crisis that continues to deteriorate. In May, Customs and Border Protection reported that 144,278 aliens were apprehended at the southern border, and that more than 675,000 have been apprehended this fiscal year. This doesn't even reflect the "got-aways," which some agents have told me could be two to three times higher.
The Senate Appropriations Committee approved legislation last week that would exacerbate the border crisis. House Democrats have somehow managed to produce a legislative proposal that is even worse than the Senate effort.
WASHINGTON, DC – President Trump is giving Congress two weeks to negotiate fixes to asylum and immigration loopholes, or he says "big deportation begins".
"We're doing a fantastic job under the circumstances. The Democrats aren't even approving giving us money," Trump told Meet the Press. "Where is the money? You know what? The Democrats are holding up the humanitarian aid.
A group of Republicans in the House are attempting to block a Democrat-led provision that would prevent Defense funding from being used to construct a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The provision is being included in the National Defense Authorization Act, which has been submitted to the House Rules Committee.
PHOENIX – U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs said Tuesday at least 2 million immigrants in the country illegally were likely the focus of potential deportations that President Donald Trump said could happen soon.
"(There are) about a million people who have already received due process – they've had a court review their case and say you are illegally in the United States. … They need to be sent home," Biggs (R-Ariz.) said on KTAR News 92.3 FM's Arizona's Morning News.
Another 1 million, he said, had court dates but failed to appear.
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), the first vice chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, announced an unlikely partnership on Tuesday.
The bipartisan duo launched the War Powers Caucus, a group that says it is "dedicated to restoring Congress's constitutionally-mandated authority over matters of war and peace."
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) created a new political firestorm Tuesday, stating that detention centers housing immigrants are "exactly" like concentration camps and then doubling down in the face of GOP criticism.
"The U.S. is running concentration camps on our southern border, and that is exactly what they are," Ocasio-Cortez said during an Instagram Live appearance on Monday night.
Congressional proceedings are usually pretty dry, but on Wednesday, House floor watchers might as well have been tuned into a reality TV show given all the shenanigans occurring as lawmakers debated their first spending package for the upcoming fiscal year.
Between a Democratic lawmaker calling her GOP male colleagues "sex-starved" and Republicans using a series of procedural tricks to delay proceedings, there was no shortage of tension to kick off the fiscal 2020 appropriations process.