#GOP border bill limiting asylum protections passes House

#GOP border bill limiting asylum protections passes House

House Republicans on Thursday passed their long-promised border crackdown, voting to finish former President Trump’s border wall and severely restrict access to asylum the same day President Biden is set to lift the use of Title 42. H.R. 2 — originally designed to be one of the first major pieces of legislation passed under the…

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#GOP leaders blink, makes last-minute changes to debt bill

#GOP leaders blink, makes last-minute changes to debt bill

House GOP leadership apparently caved to Midwestern Republicans and hardliners on their major debt limit and tax cut bill overnight, making changes to biofuel tax credits and public assistance work requirement provisions despite insisting on Tuesday that they were done negotiating the measure and would not make any more changes to it. The last-minute changes…

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#How the House GOP blew up at Biden’s State of the Union 

#How the House GOP blew up at Biden’s State of the Union 

How the House GOP blew up at Biden’s State of the Union  House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) had said that Republicans would not play “childish games” during President Biden’s State of the Union address on Tuesday. While it started as a cordial event, by the end, the speech had some of the rowdiest pushback from an opposing party…

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