Illegal immigration was not the only reason Vice President Kamala Harris lost the presidential election to President-elect Donald Trump, but it was a big one. According to the Democratic-aligned Blueprint polling firm, the second-most popular reason voters, including Hispanic people, chose Trump over Harris was that “too many immigrants illegally crossed the border under the Biden-Harris administration.” For years, […]

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) took aim at tech mogul Elon Musk for saying that any lawmaker supporting the continuing resolution for the newly unveiled end-of-the-year funding deal should be voted out of office. "Democrats and Republicans spent months negotiating a bipartisan agreement to fund our government. The richest man on Earth, President Elon Musk, doesn’t...

Vice President-elect JD Vance met with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday night, hours after President-elect Trump torpedoed the GOP leader’s spending deal. Vance was in Johnson’s office for nearly an hour, as a handful of Republican lawmakers huddled to discuss government funding and Friday’s looming shutdown deadline. Emerging from that meeting, Vance said the...

Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) said that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will end up with a good spending deal even as Republicans, including President-elect Trump and his allies, slam the current version of the package. The speaker is looking at a plan B to fund the government ahead of Friday's shutdown, which could include a...

A Manhattan judge on Wednesday issued an order for Rudy Giuliani to appear before him to face claims that he should be held in contempt after months of failing to turn over his assets to two Georgia poll workers who won a $146 million defamation lawsuit. Judge Lewis J. Liman in Manhattan signed the order calling...

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle appeared caught off guard on Wednesday as President-elect Trump demanded that a debt ceiling hike be paired with a stopgap government funding bill, rejecting a sweeping bipartisan plan to avert a government shutdown this week. Trump said in a joint statement with Vice President-elect J.D. Vance said that while...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) poked fun at President-elect Trump's encouragement for her to "keep trying" after the congresswoman lost the vote to be the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee in the upcoming Congress. "You know it’s bad when even Trump is feeling bad for me," Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a post on...