Republicans made claims about illegal voting by noncitizens a centerpiece of their 2024 campaign messaging and plan to push legislation in the new Congress requiring voters to provide proof of U.S. citizenship. Yet there's one place with a GOP supermajority where linking voting to citizenship appears to be a nonstarter: Kansas.
Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) said Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) should be re-elected as House Speaker, noting the Louisiana Republican "inherited a disaster." During an appearance on ABC's "This Week," host Jonathan Karl asked Lawler whether Johnson would and should be reelected as Speaker. "Yes, and yes," he replied. "The fact is that Mike Johnson inherited a disaster when Matt...
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, a moderate Republican, said on Sunday that he does not think President-elect Trump has permanently changed the GOP. “We've always been a spectrum in the party. We've had moderates, we've had fiscal conservatives and social moderates and social conservatives. It's a huge spectrum, and it's a big tent, and it...
Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) on Sunday signaled an openness to supporting Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) for their respective posts in the forthcoming Trump administration but said he has concerns about some of President-elect Trump's other choices. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” anchor Dana Bash asked Kim...
President-elect Trump's administration has promised a fresh approach to internet bans, government spending, border security, and immigration policies, warranting each topic to be a top spot on the Republican list of priorities for the 119th Congress. These topics are likely to be the focus of Sunday's talk shows. In an interview aired Sunday, former House Speaker Newt...
Israel must strike Iran now, hitting high-value targets within the Islamic Republic, in order to provide the second Trump administration with leverage over the New Eurasian Axis and to end the radical clerics' rule.
Kim Jong Un vowed to launch a tough anti-U.S. strategy in the coming few years, as President-elect Trump prepares to enter his second term in office. During a five-day Workers’ Party meeting this past week, Kim said North Korea would launch “the toughest anti-U.S. counteraction” in the coming years “for its long-term national interests and...