Stephen Dinan

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘confident’ that GOP will impeach Mayorkas

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene told supporters the House will finally be able to muster the votes to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas when the chamber votes this week.

February 13, 2024

GOP gets burned by latest flirtation with immigration deal

Like moths to a flame, Republicans have once again flirted with a big immigration compromise, only to get their wings singed.

February 12, 2024

Feds seek 15-year sentence for Iraqi immigrant who sought to assassinate George W. Bush

The Iraqi immigrant accused of trying to orchestrate the murder of former President George W. Bush will be sentenced Monday, and prosecutors are asking a judge to put him in prison for 15 years, saying the U.S. must send a message to shut down future plots.

February 10, 2024

House GOP opens probe into Biden administration’s ‘leniency’ toward Trump tax leaker

House Republicans announced a probe Thursday into what they said was the Justice Department's lenient treatment of the man who leaked then-President Trump's taxes.

February 8, 2024

Supreme Court Justices Jackson, Thomas say Trump ballot challenge misreads Civil War history

They've feuded in the past, but Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Clarence Thomas were singing from the same songbook Thursday as they blasted the challenge to former President Donald Trump appearing on the ballot, saying it misunderstood the point of the 14th Amendment.

February 8, 2024

‘There were no guns’: Trump rejects ‘insurrection’ label for Jan. 6

Former President Donald Trump called the Supreme Court's hearing on challenges to his ballot access "a beautiful thing," saying Thursday that attempts to throw him off the ballot were "election interference."

February 8, 2024

Supreme Court skeptical of Colorado kicking Trump off ballot: ‘Just doesn’t seem like a state call’

Supreme Court justices expressed deep skepticism Thursday of the power of individual states to kick former President Donald Trump off their ballots, casting doubt on the Colorado Supreme Court's controversial decision that he be disqualified from running in the state's primary election for taking part in an insurrection against the government.

February 8, 2024

Border smuggler bites agent trying to corral her service dog

A Border Patrol agent had to get a tetanus shot after being bit by a woman arrested for smuggling illegal immigrants while refusing separation from her service dog.

February 8, 2024

Border deal collapses; senators eye slimmed-down package with Ukraine, Israel money

The Senate's new border deal officially imploded Wednesday as Republicans mounted a filibuster, saying the agreement they helped negotiate ended up being too much of a stinker.

February 7, 2024

GOP’s debt deal, migrant labor boom tamed government spending — for now

Uncle Sam's budget looks a bit better this year after Congress ordered spending to be constrained and the economy hummed along, powered in large part by the massive surge of migrants, the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday.

February 7, 2024

Mayorkas avoids impeachment as House Republicans fail to muster votes

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro escaped history on Tuesday after House Republicans fell short on their attempt to impeach him, failing to muster enough support within their own ranks.

February 6, 2024

Trump case offers study of the 14th Amendment; compares Jan. 6 riot with Civil War

America is about to get an intense history lesson, courtesy of former President Donald Trump and those trying to keep him off the ballot this year under the Constitution's 14th Amendment.

February 6, 2024

GOP chairman calls Mayorkas a ‘reptile,’ White House sees antisemitism

The White House on Tuesday accused Republican Rep. Mark Green of antisemitism after he reportedly called Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas a "reptile" in urging colleagues to impeach the secretary.

February 6, 2024

Schumer dares GOP to vote against border bill: ‘No time for grandstanding’

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer vowed Tuesday to push ahead with a vote on the bipartisan border security deal and national security spending bill and lashed out at Republicans who are poised to tank the bill.

February 6, 2024

Senate border bill hits wall of bipartisan blowback

The walls are closing in from both sides of the aisle on the Senate border security bill, as liberals and conservatives say they can't stomach the policy changes.

February 5, 2024

Border experts divided on whether Senate deal will end the crisis

Mark Morgan, who ran Customs and Border Protection under President Trump, said there are so many loopholes in the Senate's new immigration deal that it is unlikely to solve the chaos at the southern border.

February 5, 2024

Border deal angers liberals too

It's not just conservatives who are balking at the new Senate border deal, with key Democrats and liberal pressure groups furious over what they see as President Biden's surrender on immigration.

February 5, 2024

Steve Daines, chair of Senate GOP’s campaign arm, blasts border security deal

Sen. Steve Daines, the Montana Republican whose job is to get Senate GOP candidates elected, came out in opposition Monday to a southern border security deal with Democrats tied to a $118 billion aid package with money for Ukraine and Israel.

February 5, 2024

Senate immigration deal backtracks on border wall deadlines

Tucked inside the new Senate border deal is language that would allow President Biden to postpone wall-building, giving him a chance to avoid erecting any more barriers during this current term.

February 5, 2024

Immigration deal gets tepid thumbs-up from Border Czar Kamala Harris

Vice President Kamala Harris weighed in with her lukewarm backing Sunday for the new bipartisan border deal, saying she thinks it will give the administration "additional solutions."

February 5, 2024