The troop deployment comes after Trump signed multiple executive orders to expand border security. President Donald Trump ordered a new deployment of around 1,500 troops to the U.S. southern border on Jan. 22, as part of his ongoing effort to halt illegal border crossing and smuggling efforts. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed the
The National Iranian American Council held a press conference on Jan. 21 discussing the executive order’s impact. Immigrant groups fear that President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order on national security is a precursor to a punitive travel ban that will target students who participated in pro-Palestinian university encampments and make obtaining visas more difficult.
The Pentagon will send up to 1,500 additional active-duty troops to the southern border, following President Donald Trump’s executive orders on border security, officials said Wednesday. The troops, set to be deployed in the coming days, will assist border patrol agents with logistics, transportation, and barrier construction, according to the officials. Around 2,200 active-duty forces
The panel will be led by Rep. Barry Loudermilk under the House Judiciary Committee. House Republicans led by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced a new select subcommittee investigating the events before and after the breach at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The subcommittee is mandated to “uncover the full truth that is owed to
‘And that’s why more people are watching the Cartoon Network, ‘Spongebob’ reruns right now,’ Burchett says Rep. Tim Burchett (R., Tenn.) skewered CNN’s poor ratings Wednesday, joking to anchor Jim Acosta that SpongeBob SquarePants reruns and Cartoon Network get more viewers. “I was at the White House covering the first Trump administration when they had
George Soros ‘didn’t want to create an employment agency,’ his son says Alex Soros receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom on behalf of his father, George Soros (Tom Brenner/Getty Images) George Soros was “very upset” by the massive number of employees and “amount of bureaucracy” at his liberal nonprofit, the Open Society Foundations, according to
President Trump is threatening to use his powers to adjourn Congress so he can make recess appointments for at least some of his top Cabinet nominees and their deputies, enabling them to begin running the largest federal departments. Mr. Trump most recently raised the prospect of plunging the executive and legislative branches into uncharted constitutional