As the first busload of migrants from Texas reached New York in the summer of 2022, Mayor Eric Adams announced the city was ready with a helping hand for "every asylum-seeker that comes to New York," and his administration worked with immigration activists to get the newcomers settled.
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday trashed the House GOP's new nominee for speaker, Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota, calling him "out of touch" with Republican voters whose election would be a "tragic mistake."
The new GOP nominee for speaker is trying to convince more than two dozen Republican holdouts to back him in a vote on the House floor as soon as Tuesday.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Tuesday declared her opposition to antisemitism one day after she was criticized for deflecting a question about an uptick in attacks on Jewish people by condemning hate crimes against Muslims.
Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature have advanced a series of constitutional amendments that would outlaw private funding for elections ahead of the 2024 presidential contest, bar municipalities from allowing non-U.S. citizens to vote in local elections and enshrine existing voter photo ID requirements in the state constitution.
Sen. Rick Scott is arguing that President Biden's massive aid package which includes funds for Israel and Ukraine should be scrapped because it lacks enough bipartisan support.
U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who is running to be Houston's next mayor, expressed regret and said that "everyone deserves to be treated with dignity and respect" following the release of an unverified audio recording purported to be of the longtime Democratic lawmaker berating staff members with a barrage of expletives.
HOUSE REPUBLICANS TAKE ANOTHER RUN OFF THE CLIFF. Tuesday marked the beginning of the second phase of the House Republicans' search for a speaker. In phase one, the first three weeks of the drama, GOP lawmakers eliminated the top three party leaders in the House — Reps. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Steve Scalise (R-LA), and Jim Jordan (R-OH) — from consideration as speaker. Now, in phase two, they are looking at the second tier of possibilities. Is there a speaker in there somewhere?
PITTSBURGH — Sen. Bob Casey's visit to Nicky’s Grant Street, the iconic diner in the shadow of the Pittsburgh city-county building where Democrats who have run the city for nearly 100 years have cut deals over dippy eggs, had nothing to do with sudden hunger pains. It had everything to do with what incumbents do when they are running for reelection: endorse a local Democrat, tout economic development projects they are bringing to the area, and hand out money.