US Republicans are increasingly warming to the idea of waging war against Mexico’s powerful drug cartels, according to Politico, which spoke to several lawmakers in the party about the controversial idea. Former president Donald Trump is eager to send “special forces” south of the border to take out the cartels, …
Read More »Republicans demand Ukraine aid oversight
The House Oversight Committee demanded on Wednesday that the Pentagon, State Department and US Agency for International Development prove that the $113 billion in military and economic aid allocated to Ukraine isn’t being lost to “waste, fraud, and abuse.” In a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Secretary of State …
Read More »House Republicans to investigate Biden family
Republican lawmakers announced on Thursday that they would probe whether US President Joe Biden had been “swayed by foreign dollars or influence” through his son, Hunter Biden. President Biden met with more than a dozen of Hunter’s foreign associates, including the executive of a Ukrainian energy firm that employed the …
Read More »Republicans favored to retake US House, Senate up for grabs
The Republican Party is on course to regain control of the US House of Representatives, according to several news organizations that are tracking the midterm election vote count. In the Senate, the Democrats and GOP are neck and neck. According to AP, Democrats and Republicans so far have 47 seats …
Read More »Establishment Republicans love to blame Donald Trump for their losses, but they are their own problem
Rep. Liz Cheney – the daughter of former US Vice-President Dick Cheney, of the President George W. Bush era – had publicly positioned herself as chief co-prosecutor of former President Donald Trump in the congressional hearings into the events around the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021. But …
Read More »US Republicans demand FBI release Trump search affidavit
Republican lawmakers are demanding the affidavit used as the basis for the search warrant issued for former US President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach home be unsealed, arguing the extraordinary step of sending the FBI in to seize documents from a former president’s residence requires proof of equally extraordinary justification. Unsealing …
Read More »Republicans vow to investigate FBI’s Trump raid
US House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-California) and other Republican lawmakers have condemned President Joe Biden’s administration for raiding the Florida home of Donald Trump, warning that they will investigate politicization of the Department of Justice (DOJ) when they take back control of Congress. “The Department of Justice has reached …
Read More »Texas Republicans declare Biden ‘not legitimately elected’
Texas Republicans adopted a plank to their platform declaring the 2020 election of Democrat Joe Biden as US president to be illegitimate on Saturday during the party’s first in-person convention since 2018. It was one of several planks signaling the party’s further shift rightward. “We reject the certified results of …
Read More »House Republicans slam ‘woke’ Pentagon spending
The US Department of Defense is splurging too much money on promoting Pride Month, while neglecting “military preparedness,” a faction of Republican congressmen has charged, in a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. The representatives say they want full accounting of the DOD’s use of taxpayer dollars spent on …
Read More »Republicans slam ‘misinformation’ tool used in schools for ‘left-wing bias’
Republicans in Congress are sounding alarms over a partnership agreement between the NewsGuard ‘disinformation’ service and a major teachers’ union, arguing the tool is prone to bias and the union is deliberately politicizing American students. In letters sent to both NewsGuard and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), GOP Representatives …
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