Stephen Dinan

House passes bill to add citizenship to census, block noncitizens from House apportionment

The House approved legislation Wednesday to add a question on citizenship into the decennial census and to change the way seats in the House are doled out, slicing noncitizens from of the count.

May 8, 2024

Perjury questions dog Michael Cohen ahead of Trump trial testimony

Top House Republicans sent a criminal referral Wednesday prodding the Justice Department to investigate Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former lawyer, over allegations he lied to Congress in several pieces of testimony.

May 8, 2024

Heroes and villains of illegal immigration on display at Senate ‘Dreamer’ hearing

On one end of the Senate dais Wednesday was Mitchell Soto-Rodriguez, an illegal immigrant "Dreamer" who came to the U.S. at age 9, put herself through college and earlier this year was sworn in as a police officer, despite not having legal status in the U.S.

May 8, 2024

Ivy League schools took millions in gifts from ‘State of Palestine’ entities

Harvard University and Brown University collected more than $2 million combined from Palestinian entities in recent years, according to a report released Wednesday that questioned what the universities had to do in exchange for the funds.

May 8, 2024

GOP demands Biden block student loan forgiveness for campus protesters

The chair of the House committee that oversees education policy told the Biden administration on Tuesday to block rioting college students from having their student loans forgiven by the government.

May 7, 2024

TikTok sues U.S. to stop Congress’ ban

TikTok sued the U.S. government Tuesday, arguing that a looming ban on the social media company is unconstitutional.

May 7, 2024

Protesters from abroad put student visas at risk; Biden urged to act against terrorist sympathizers

Some of those involved in the unruly campus protests against Israel are guests of the U.S. on foreign student visas, and pressure is mounting on President Biden to start revoking those visas to help schools regain control of their grounds.

May 6, 2024

Noncitizens caught voting in U.S. elections — here’s how they did it

Federal prosecutors in North Carolina brought charges against 37 noncitizens who voted in the 2016 election, illustrating that it does happen and that partisan politics seemed to play a role in who got registered.

May 3, 2024

Biden grants DACA migrants access to Obamacare money

President Biden finalized a new policy Friday giving illegal immigrant "Dreamers" here under the DACA program full access to Obamacare, including taxpayer subsidies to buy insurance on the Affordable Care Act's markets.

May 3, 2024

IRS says it will need more money soon

IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel said Thursday that the agency has made huge strides in improving customer service, but will soon need more money if Congress wants continued progress for the rest of the decade.

May 2, 2024

GOP lawmakers urge Biden to drop Gaza refugee plans

Senate Republicans are calling on President Biden to shut down the idea of bringing Palestinians from Gaza into the U.S. as refugees, saying it would be tantamount to importing terrorist supporters.

May 2, 2024

Biden’s education secretary defends biological males in girls’ bathrooms

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona defended his new federal rules requiring schools to let students use the bathroom of their choice, saying he's defending the rights of transgender students who have been "under attack in our country."

May 2, 2024

After 100 years, feds to finally shutter ‘temporary’ government building

To borrow from Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, few things are as lasting as a temporary government building.

May 1, 2024

Biden could welcome Palestinians with refugee program, inside track on U.S. citizenship

President Biden is pondering a move to allow Palestinians into the U.S. through the refugee program, according to a news report.

May 1, 2024

Congress reveals Biden’s secret list of destination airports for illegal immigrants

The House Homeland Security Committee published the list of airports involved in President Biden's migrant airlift, which is helping hundreds of thousands of unauthorized migrants skip over the border and fly directly into American communities.

May 1, 2024

House GOP probes U.S. taxpayer money for Russian medical researchers

The House Energy and Commerce Committee said Tuesday that it is probing the Biden administration's medical research spending to see if any of it is still going to Russia in defiance of a White House order.

April 30, 2024

Senators blame ‘inexcusable failure of leadership’ for Biden’s college aid fiasco

Republican senators excoriated the Biden administration Tuesday for wasting time on legally dubious student-loan forgiveness schemes while ignoring the mismanaged college financial aid process, which has left hundreds of thousands of students in the lurch this year.

April 30, 2024

Education Department probing Columbia University over protests, treatment of Jewish students

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona on Tuesday said his department has opened an investigation into Columbia University for potential violations of civil rights laws amid pro-Palestinian protests and danger to Jewish students.

April 30, 2024

Americans say Biden’s border chaos is an invasion; federal judges say it’s not

Republican attempts to label the migrant surge an "invasion" have fallen flat in the courts, where judges say the flow of people and drugs looks less like a Constitution-breaking military incursion and more like the kinds of border problems that have plagued the country for decades.

April 29, 2024

Immigration groups demand crackdown on migrants boarding planes

Border security experts are demanding that Congress use an upcoming debate over the Federal Aviation Administration to pass legislation that would make it tougher for immigrants living in the U.S. illegally to get on airplanes without using identity documents from their native countries.

April 29, 2024