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Not only have polls and prediction markets tilted recently toward Donald Trump winning the presidential election, they are also pointing to Republicans flipping the Senate and retaining control of the House. A GOP sweep would give Trump a freer hand to enact his agenda. While U.S. presidents have broad authority on immigration and tariffs, changes to tax and spending policies would require congressional approval. The latest polling analysis from 538 gave Trump a 53-in-100 chance of winning the election versus 47 out of 100 for Kamala Harris. It also gave Republicans an 87-in-100 chance of taking the Senate majority away...

The letter, spearheaded by Reps. Mike Lawler (R-NY) and Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) said Congress has taken note of the numerous UN actions "aimed to delegitimize Israel's right to self-defense." Any downgrade in Israel's status or standing at the UNGA will result in a corresponding downgrade of US financial, material, and political support to the UN, more than 100 bipartisan members of Congress wrote in a letter on Thursday addressed to UN Secretary-General António Guterres.

'The Biden-Harris Administration has guaranteed that upward of 1 million aliens—the overwhelming majority of whom likely would otherwise not have a legal basis to remain in the United States—can stay in the country indefinitely...' A chart released by the House GOP shows how many immigration cases the Biden-Harris administration has tanked, which has resulted in some 1 million illegal aliens being allowed to remain in the US indefinitely The Biden-Harris administration has allowed some 1 million illegal immigrants to remain in the country indefinitely due to its slew of immigration court case dismissals, terminations and other “administrative maneuvering,” according to...

Kamala Harris has been accused of plagiarism for the second time in as many weeks, this time including Congressional testimony she gave as a district attorney and at least one instance of lifting material from Wikipedia. According to the Washington Free Beacon, Harris lifted much of her 2007 testimony before Congress from a Republican district attorney in Illinois named Paul Logli. She also allegedly copied a paragraph from Wikipedia in a 2012 report on human trafficking. In a third instance, the outlet reported that Harris passed off a fictionalized story about a sex trafficking victim as fact, only changing the...

Vice President Kamala Harris plagiarized material in addition to her book Smart on Crime, an analysis by Washington Free Beacon’s Aaron Sibarium found Tuesday. The additional allegations of plagiarism diminish the credibility of the Harris campaign’s denial of plagiarism. The Beacon’s Sibarium reported Harris also plagiarized pages of congressional testimony from a Republican colleague and a fictionalized story about human trafficking. Sibarium reported on Harris’s material from congressional testimony: Virtually her entire testimony about the bill was taken from that of another district attorney, Paul Logli of Winnebago County, Illinois, who had testified in support of the legislation two months...

Harris’ campaign is promising that if she is elected and the numbers in Congress work, Democrats will eliminate the Senate filibuster.Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is promising that if Harris is elected president and the numbers in the House and Senate are favorable, they will eliminate the Senate filibuster for a singular altruistic purpose — to enshrine Roe v. Wade as the law of the land. They ignore polling that suggests there are other issues at the top of Americans’ daily concerns.The putative Harris administration would try again to eliminate the filibuster just one more time to pass the John...

High-ranking alumni of some of the most powerful congressional offices in the country have lobbied on behalf of companies controlled or greatly influenced by the Chinese military, disclosures show. Former congressional staffers with ties to powerful members of Congress, like Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Republican House Whip Steve Scalise, have worked to influence policy on behalf of Pentagon-designated “Chinese military companies” like DJI, BGI and Huawei. Chinese military companies are those the Department of Defense (DOD) has determined are “directly or indirectly owned, controlled or beneficially owned by” the Chinese military, as well as those that contribute...

The lover of Fulton County DA Fani Willis and ex-Trump prosecutor Nathan Wade spilled the beans before Congress in a damning deposition last week. The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee, which is investigating the anti-Trump DA's financial affairs and prosecution of former President Donald Trump, released the 132-page testimony Monday in a move sure to spur Willis, who had demanded that Wade not answer certain questions under oath due to the "confidential" nature of the information. https://x.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1848381640432591302 She previously said in a scathing letter sent to the committee's chairman, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), that the proceedings could compel Wade to divulge...

Rattling through my brain right now is: "what happens in an EV tie?" I think I know but am not certain. Does the House vote on the President and the Senate vote on the VP? IIRC that's the way it works. But what I'm wondering is how,exactly,does it work? Is it the incoming House and Senate or the outgoing ones? Is it a simple majority of House and Senate members? I'm hoping that there might be a Constitutional scholar out there who's be willing to straighten me out.

Some Nevada voters will receive new ballots after an error listed Lynn Chapman, running for Nevada’s second congressional district under the Independent American Party label, as a member of the Democratic Party. The error, first reported by the Nevada Appeal over the weekend, incorrectly lists Chapman as a Democrat on ballots in Carson City for Nevada’s second congressional district. Chapman, who is a member of the Independent American Party, is one of four candidates seeking the position, alongside Republican Mark Amodei, Libertarian Javi Tachiquin, and non-partisan candidate Greg Kidd. Since the error was discovered, the Carson City Clerk-Recorder’s office has...

In living memory, no Republican president has evoked the blind hatred from the left that Donald Trump has. Not even Richard Nixon, for all his flaws, provoked this seething anger, contempt, and willingness to casually toss aside historical and constitutional norms to damage him. Some on the left made noises about impeaching George W. Bush, but few of them were in Congress, and there was no official proceeding, other than an attempt by the far-left pols Dennis Kucinich and Robert Wexler, which went nowhere.But Trump? Twice. The second impeachment farce was after he left office. He was acquitted in the...

Progressive filmmaker Michael Moore called on President Biden to use his remaining time in office to enact a host of liberal policies “with a simple stroke or two of your presidential pen.” “Some people are now calling you a ‘lame duck’ president — but then it occurred to me today: You’re not done,” Moore wrote. “You’ve still got 100 days left in office!” “You don’t answer to anyone,” he added. “For the first time in over 50 years, you don’t have to campaign for anything. You are the opposite of lame, Joe. And you are not a duck.” “The Supreme...

State Senate candidate Vivian Smotherman has been busted for blowing campaign funds on a beauty consultant to do hair and makeup, signaling to voters how careless she’s likely to spend their tax dollars if elected. Smotherman is the Democrat running for the district 6 seat in southwest Colorado that includes Alamosa against incumbent Republican state Sen. Cleave Simpson. According to the LGBTQ Victory Fund, Smotherman is a bisexual transgender woman and would be the first transgender woman elected to Colorado’s state Senate. That’s if District 6 voters find Smotherman to be fiscally responsible.

A House committee probing the ongoing border crisis has subpoenaed Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra for information about tens of thousands of unaccompanied migrant children who have disappeared inside the US. House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green (R-Tenn.) compelled Becerra, in a Thursday cover letter exclusively obtained by The Post that accompanied the subpoena, to hand over documents related to the “vetting, screening, and monitoring” of migrant sponsors by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR).... HHS officials have stalled for more than a month and a half after the Homeland Security panel initially requested the records on...

Trump allegedly paid 130,000 hush money from his own funds. Congress paid millions of taxpayer funds to shut up their bimbo eruptions.

Over the past 15 years, members of Congress have survived two near-deadly shootings, a train crash with dozens of them on board, and a Capitol riot that had hundreds of lawmakers fearing for their lives.Despite those incidents, the institution is wholly unprepared for a catastrophic event that kills or incapacitates multiple members — even if that hypothetical tragedy results in a major power shift: changing which party holds the majority in the House or Senate. (snip) Right now, the main idea to address the issue is a constitutional amendment that would require members of the House to submit a list...

The deal, rolled out Sunday afternoon, would keep the government funded through Dec. 20 to buy time to hash out a funding agreement for the rest of fiscal 2025. The roughly three-month timeline is the preferred duration of Democrats and Republican defense hawks. It comes after a bill containing a six-month stopgap, the time frame sought by conservatives, failed on the House floor ... Secret Service The bill includes $231 million in funding for the Secret Service in the wake of the apparent second assassination attempt against Trump. The proposed funding for the Secret Service comes as the acting director,...

Concerning the recent House funding plan: Was it that Schumer bring the SAVE Act to the floor of the Senate to allow Senators to vote on it? Or, was the plan simply to allow Republicans to talk about the SAVE Act and how much Democrats don’t want to protect Americans from illegal immigration, whether it’s the fentanyl pouring across our border, terrorists and criminal gang members flooding the nation, or preventing illegal aliens from voting in our elections? Let’s analyze the recent failure of the Continuing Resolution + SAVE plan to see if we can tease out what the plan...

WASHINGTON — Five days after the second apparent assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, the House on Friday unanimously passed bipartisan legislation that would boost Secret Service protection for the two parties’ presidential nominees, Trump and Kamala Harris, as well as their vice presidential running mates. The vote was 405-0. It required two-thirds support of the House to pass because it came to the floor under an expedited process. In a separate action, lawmakers also passed a resolution expanding the scope of the bipartisan House task force investigating the July 13 Trump assassination attempt to include the second incident....

We’ve seen a lot of dishonest statements and allegations from the left about the events of Jan. 6 at the Capitol, with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the corrupt J6 Committee dropping the most disinformation. One of the longest-running allegations is that Donald Trump knew violence was coming but did nothing to stop it. He never requested the National Guard, the narrative goes. He didn’t care what happened.Chairman Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) of the Committee on House Administration's Subcommittee on Oversight has a different view, however, and he has newly released transcripts to back it up. In a press release...