U.S. investigators are helping South Korea investigate the plane crash on Sunday that killed 179 people on board a plane from Thailand. The team of U.S. investigators will include the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Boeing, which manufactured the aircraft that blew up in flames when it landed at...
Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) said Sunday that the H-1B visa program benefits the economy, throwing his weight behind President-elect Trump and Elon Musk in their argument against some of their base supporters. In an interview on ABC News's "This Week," Lawler said immigration is necessary and that he supports the merit-based visa program for highly...
President-elect Donald Trump celebrated a "win for America" after a federal judge stopped the Biden administration from selling border wall materials before he takes office.
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...