With deadline looming, Senate races to approve $1.2 trillion government spending package

With deadline looming, Senate races to approve $1.2 trillion government spending package – CBS News Watch CBS News Amid a divided Congress, the House Friday approved a $1.2 trillion government spending package, sending it to the Senate ahead of a midnight deadline in an effort to avoid a partial government shutdown. Scott MacFarlane has the

‘The Utah Way’: Conservative, Deep Red State ‘Most Welcoming’ for Illegal Immigrants

Republicans in House, Senate, Gubernatorial primaries say Biden ‘open border’ policies is top issue, but state’s ‘lax’ laws ’magnetize’ illegal migration. Driver ‘privilege’ licenses, ID cards, medical insurance for children, in-state college tuition and financial aid, swift occupational licensing, no 72-hour holds for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and a process to deflate some

Some Democrats Say They Would Save Speaker Johnson From Ouster

After Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) filed a motion to vacate Speaker chair on March 22, several Democrats say they would vote against it. An unlikely source of aid for House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.)—who is facing a motion from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to oust him after bringing the government funding package to

Mandated Wage Hikes Imperil Disappearing Family Farms, Panel Is Told

House committee calls on USDA, not the Department of Labor, to set pay scale for farmworkers. There are 544,000 fewer farms in the United States than there were in 1980 and more than 151 million acres formerly tilled are no longer producing commercial crops. There are myriad reasons why, but among most prominent—especially for the

Jordan Subpoenas Biden’s Ghostwriter in Continuing Classified Records Probe

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) subpoenaed President Joe Biden’s ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, on Friday, pressing for details about the president’s handling of classified documents. Last month, Special Counsel Robert Hur published his findings from his investigation into President Biden’s handling of classified documents. Among the findings, Mr. Hur said in 2016 then-Vice President

Lawmaker: CBP One App a ‘Racket’ for Would-Be Illegal Immigrants to Gain Entry

Democrats say the CBP One phone app streamlines process for migrants entering under the greatly-expanded ‘humanitarian parole’ program. Republicans called the Biden administration’s use of the CBP One phone app a “mass parole scheme” to unlawfully allow hundreds of thousands of would-be illegal immigrants into the country at a March 21 House Homeland Security joint