CNN, April 18, 2021]. While initially a Tea Party group, the Freedom Caucus now primarily pushes an America First agenda centered on immigration. And the powerful Republican Study Committee’s (RSC) new leadership also strikes an immigration patriot tone foreign to the Business First GOP. This change is personified the groups’ leaders, respectively Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs and Indiana Rep. Jim Banks. There’s more that can be done, but they are on the right path.
Why did the America First Caucus cause such a ruckus anyway? It allegedly echoed “white nationalist” rhetoric by daring to mention “Anglo-Saxon traditions” and warning that mass immigration threatens America’s traditional demographic makeup [
Gun Stocks Move as Supreme Court Takes Up Second Amendment Case
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal challenging the constitutionality of New York s gun laws.
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SWBI) - Get Report were on the move Monday after the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal to expand gun rights in the U.S.
This is the first time the Court is taking up a Second Amendment case since Justice Amy Coney Barrett tilted the balance of the court to a 6-3 conservative majority.
The court announced they will review a lower-court ruling that upheld New York s restrictive gun permit law after turning down a review of the case last June before the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
endIndex: When I took office, I decided that it was a fairly basic, simple proposition, and that is I got elected to solve problems, Biden said at his first official news conference in March. And the most urgent problem facing the American people, I stated from the outset, was COVID-19 and the economic dislocation for millions and millions of Americans.
Had Biden stumbled on these key tasks, his emerging, and staggering, multi-trillion dollar aspirations to remake the US economy and much of the social safety net would have appeared not just ambitious but politically inconceivable.
He promised 100 million vaccines administered in his first 100 days, and delivered 200 million. With a Democratic-controlled Congress, he sent out the $1,400 emergency checks that never arrived under ex-President Donald Trump and a Republican Senate.
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The US has begun to withdraw troops from Afghanistan ahead of the White House’s September 11 deadline, marking the beginning of the end of America’s longest war.
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Countries are pledging aid to India as it fights a deadly pandemic wave. India today reported 352,991 new cases and 2,812 virus-related deaths, marking the world’s highest daily caseload for the fifth straight day. Covid-19 cases have risen astronomically in India since March. In response, the US will deploy supplies and support, including ventilators, PPE and rapid diagnostic test kits. The UK, Germany and neighbor Pakistan, as well as tech giants Microsoft and Google, have also pledged supplies and relief. Meanwhile in the US, the CDC and F
Most Americans feel good about Biden’s first 100 days April 26, 2021
ust over half of Americans approve of the job President Joe Biden is doing as he marks 100 days in office, thanks mainly to the way he is handling the coronavirus pandemic.
WASHINGTON Just over half of Americans approve of the job President Joe Biden is doing as he marks 100 days in office, thanks mainly to the way he is handling the coronavirus pandemic.
According to a new survey by Washington / Post-ABC News, 52 percent of Americans say that they at least somewhat approve of the actions Biden has taken so far, while 42 percent disapprove.