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16 Mar 2021 Republican leaders are spotlighting the heartbreak, costs, and chaos caused by President Joe Biden’s promise to welcome poor economic migrants who can survive the long trek to the United States border. “It’s more than a crisis,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said March 15 in a TV-ready press conference at the border: This is a human heartbreak. The sad part about all this — it didn’t have to happen. This crisis is created by the presidential policies of thi...

March 17, 2021 2:15 p.m. House Freedom Caucus members on Wednesday continued pressing on with attacking President Biden’s so-called “border crisis” by piling on bad faith arguments that conveniently ignored, yet touted, the Trump administration’s inhumane immigration policies. In the past week, Republicans have increasingly smeared migrants who come to the border as vectors of COVID-19 — a worry that contradicts their calls for re-openings amid the pandemic. The ...

During a Tuesday interview on FNC's "Fox & Friends First," Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) discussed his trip with Rep. Michael Cloud (R-TX) to the United States-Mexico border. | Clips

(The Center Square) – The Biden administration has sent federal officials to the Texas-Mexico border to address a surge of unaccompanied minors, as 12 Republican members of Congress arrived in El Paso to learn more about what Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is describing as a humanitarian crisis. Abbott in a several paragraph statement Monday said he was putting the president "on notice" for the humanitarian crisis he created at the border by reversing Trump-era policies. “Texas is putting Pre...

Iowa GOP Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks speaks out after traveling to Texas to assess the growing crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and 12 other House Republicans are at the southern border and will make comments from El Paso, Texas, later Monday as the GOP continues to hammer President Biden over immigration.  McCarthy, R-Calif., and other Republicans have blamed Biden himself for the massive surge in border crossings since he took office. They are likel...

Rep. Kevin McCarthy, along with the 12 other Republican members of the House, said President Joe Biden was to blame for the surge of migrant children.

Texas Republicans have sought to pin the influx on President Joe Biden’s shift away...

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson says the Biden administration needs to think long and hard about what theyve done and change course quickly before the problem gets worse. Reps. Chip Roy and Henry Cuellar of Texas introduced a bill on Tuesday aimed at eradicating an invasive weed along the Rio Grande which makes it highly difficult for border patrol agents to navigate vast areas of the southern border.  The bill, first obtained by Fox News, is a far cry from a comprehensive immigration reform pack...

U.S. House Oversight Committee investigating operator of Texas power grid Bryan Mena, The Texas Tribune March 3, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif. will lead an investigation by the House Oversight committee into ERCOTs handling of Februarys disastrous winter storm in Texas.Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call Inc. A U.S. House subcommittee is investigating the operator of Texas’ power grid for its role in leaving millions without electricity during the destructive winter storm that ham...

© Getty Images A bipartisan group of more than a dozen lawmakers on Wednesday introduced a bill banning members of Congress and senior staff from buying and selling stocks, most bonds and options contracts. Called the Ban Conflicted Trading Act, the measure is intended to prevent lawmakers and high-level staffers from enriching themselves through trades based on potentially market-moving information. Lawmakers and senior staffers are already banned from making investment decisions based on non...