BY MIKE LILLIS AND AL WEAVER |
Democrats on Capitol Hill are waging an internal war against one of their own after the GOP successfully muscled through the Senate a partisan spending bill that drew the votes of Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), eight other Democrats and an independent. The clash is pitting most of the party — including virtually every House Democrat — against Schumer, who infuriated members of his party on and off of Capitol Hill by saying Thursday night he would back the measure. |
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BY MYCHAEL SCHNELL, AL WEAVER AND MIKE LILLIS |
The Senate approved a House GOP-crafted spending bill hours before the shutdown deadline Friday evening, capping off the first funding fight of President Trump’s second term — a saga that ripped apart the Democratic Party. The legislation funds the government through Sept. 30, boosts defense funding by $6 billion and imposes $13 billion in cuts to nondefense funding. Trump is expected to sign the measure, having previously endorsed it. |
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BY ALEX GANGITANO AND REBECCA BEITSCH |
President Trump on Friday visited the Justice Department (DOJ) for a remarkable victory lap eight weeks into his triumphant return to the White House.
Trump has long blamed the department under his predecessor for unfairly targeting him in cases that involved dozens of serious criminal charges. But his visit visually solidified Trump’s grip on the Justice Department amid fears from critics that he may seek to diminish the agency’s independence and push for prosecution of his perceived enemies. |
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Senators voted Friday to pass legislation to prevent cuts to the District of Columbia’s local budget after city officials warned the District faced a $1 billion hit under a stopgap government funding bill approved by the Senate moments earlier.
The bill, which allows D.C. to continue operating at its adopted fiscal 2025 budget, passed by voice vote. |
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A federal appeals court Friday reinstated portions of President Trump’s executive orders targeting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs that were blocked by a lower court.
The unanimous three-judge panel on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the administration is likely to succeed in its February appeal, though the two judges appointed by Democratic presidents made clear a challenge could still succeed in the future. |
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President Trump rolled back on Friday over a dozen former executive orders and directives signed by former President Biden focused on gender, labor policies and industry regulations.
Trump signed an executive order late Friday that rescinded 18 executive actions signed by Biden during his four-year term in an effort to “reverse damaging policies and restore effective government,” according to a White House official.
With Friday’s executive order signed, Trump has reversed nearly 100 executive actions in his first two months back in office as he moves to reshape the federal government. |
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The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) targeted Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) in a new digital ad on Friday over his vote against a GOP-crafted bill to fund the government through September.
“Democrat Jon Ossoff voted for a reckless government shutdown that would have hurt Georgia families,” a narrator in the 30-second spot says. “Jon Ossoff voted against pay increases for our military and firefighters, against funding for border security. He even voted against our veterans.” |
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) brushed off questions surrounding his leadership and defended his decision to vote to advance the six-month GOP-crafted continuing resolution (CR) that will fund the government through the end of September, saying during an interview that he and his caucus are on the same page.
Schumer was asked on CNN by Jake Tapper if the long-time lawmaker was “worried” about his leadership position after getting fierce pushback from House Democrats and some senators in his conference about his decision to vote to move forward a funding bill that he said previously was “bad.” |
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared South African ambassador to the U.S. Ebrahim Rasool “persona non grata” and accused the diplomat of being a “race-baiting politician” over his recent comments about President Trump.
“South Africa’s Ambassador to the United States is no longer welcome in our great country,” Rubio said in a Friday post on the social platform X. “Emrahim Rasool is a race-baiting politician who hates America and hates @POTUS. We have nothing to discuss with him and so he is considered PERSONA NON GRATA.” |
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BY REP. RAJA KRISHNAMOORTHI (D-ILL.) |
OPINION | “We must take the blockchain as an important breakthrough for independent innovation of core technologies, clarify the main direction, increase investment, and accelerate the development of blockchain technology.” Those aren’t my words. That’s a quote from Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2019. And in the years since, China has certainly heeded his call. |
OPINION | The challenge of restoring fiscal responsibility will be on full display in the months ahead following the passage of the House of Representatives budget resolution for the 2025 fiscal year on Feb. 25.
It set the stage for legislation that can circumvent the Senate’s 60-vote threshold and pass with a simple majority. While it does not include specific changes to spending and taxes, it specifies which House committees should finance deficits in reconciliation legislation and by how much. |
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The Southerners at the Myrtle Beach Welcome Center had brewed Tim Hortons coffee for their northern guests. They were giving away cookies adorned with maple leaves, and lapel pins featuring the twinned flags of Canada and South Carolina.
It was Monday morning at the kickoff party for Can-Am Days, the annual ritual that honors the Canadians who have long bolstered the city’s tourist economy in the winter months. For more than 60 years, it had been the most easygoing of international summits: The local Lions Club would welcome Lions from Canada. There were garden tours and golf tournaments. In pre-internet days, the local paper would print the Canadian news.
Now it had gotten complicated and weird, a result of the trade war being waged against Canada by a capricious American president whose image is all over the Myrtle Beach T-shirt shops, his famous fist pump as popular as sea gulls and sunsets. |
The 64 pounds of meth stuffed into the seats and spare tire of a pickup truck caught the attention of border agents in El Paso, Texas, who seized the drugs last month. But it was the trays of eggs that really alarmed them.
As egg prices soar in the U.S., travelers have been stocking up on cheaper supplies in Mexico and, to some degree, Canada. The U.S. Department of Agriculture bans such imports because eggs not inspected through official channels can spread disease.
So-called egg interceptions are up 36 percent nationwide so far this fiscal year, compared with the previous year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Along parts of the Texas border, they have risen by 54 percent, according to CBP’s Laredo field office. In San Diego, they have more than doubled, CBP has reported. |
Russia and Ukraine traded heavy aerial blows overnight Saturday, with both sides reporting more than 100 enemy drones over their respective territories.
The attack comes less than 24 hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin met with U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff to discuss details of the American proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in the war with Ukraine,
Volgograd regional Gov. Andrei Bocharov confirmed that falling drone debris had sparked a fire in the Krasnoarmeysky district of the city close to a Lukoil oil refinery, but provided no further details. Nearby airports temporarily halted flights, local media outlets reported. No casualties were reported. |
The day of President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress last week, Democratic lawmakers flooded social media with videos to try to break through the Trump-dominated news cycle.
On the Senate side, more than two dozen Democrats, including Sens. Cory Booker (N.J) and Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), posted videos under the headline “S--t-that ain’t true,” reading from the same script and fact-checking Trump’s promise to lower prices.
Meanwhile, on the House side, an influencer known for making elaborate bento boxes posted a “choose your fighter”-themed video featuring Democratic congresswomen bouncing in a fighting stance while their accomplishments and fun facts were displayed on screen. |
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