After voting no seven times, Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., flipped and cast the deciding vote to advance a War Powers Resolution to rein in President Donald Trump’s war in Iran without authorization from Congress.
Thousands of local service providers and volunteers are working hard to keep communities functioning and we’ll talk to two of them — Sara Walker and Melissa Evers of Wake County Meals on Wheels –
State governments should shoulder more of the cost and responsibility for natural disaster recovery, according to a report released Thursday by the Federal Emergency Management Agency review council.
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The Trump administration plans to award a $150 million contract to a small Texas firm — with no specialty in immigration law and run by a former Trump official — to provide legal services to tens of thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children, according to a Wednesday pre-published notice in the Federal Register.
The state Senate stripped some of the most contentious provisions from a state House elections bill, but left in place provisions requiring elections officials to remove noncitizens from voter rolls and giving the auditor the job of handling post-election audits.
Voters throughout much of the country will cast ballots for their U.S. senator this fall, but just nine states hold the power to determine control of the chamber — setting the course for which presidential nominees can secure confirmation and what bills advance during the next two years.
In a 6-3 decision on June 30, the court struck down limits on how much political parties could spend in coordination with specific candidates. Simply put, the ruling “gives the parties more money to spend,” said David Kolker, senior counsel at the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center.
“As new data centers go up, all of the electricity bills for American families will actually come down,” Trump said during a roundtable event at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday. He added that Big Tech companies are “happy” to foot the bill for data centers because it will allow them to continue to function and grow.
A multibillion-dollar package to fund immigration enforcement for the rest of President Donald Trump’s term faced new delays Thursday as Senate Republicans showed a rare split with the president over his new “anti-weaponization” fund.