Elise Stefanik, Cabinet Hopes Dashed, Considers Her Next Move
The New York Republican is contemplating a run for governor and nursing a feud with the House speaker after seeing her cabinet dream evaporate.
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The New York Republican is contemplating a run for governor and nursing a feud with the House speaker after seeing her cabinet dream evaporate.
G.O.P. leaders used a procedural maneuver to close off an avenue for House members to demand answers from the Trump administration, including on the defense secretary’s use of Signal.
The Take It Down Act, which united a coalition of conservative and liberal lawmakers, criminalizes the nonconsensual sharing of sexually explicit images of others and requires companies to remove them.
As part of legislation to pay for President Trump’s domestic agenda, including his immigration crackdown, House Republicans want to impose or increase fees for legal entry into the United States.
Greg Casar, a Texas Democrat and new chairman of the House Progressive Caucus, says his party must adopt economic populism to recapture voters and effectively counter President Trump.
Representative Gerald E. Connolly of Virginia said he would not run for re-election. He will also give up his leadership spot on the oversight panel as he faces cancer.
Republican lawmakers are set to lay out specifics of their sweeping fiscal package as Congress returns for a critical month, giving Democrats an opening for fresh attacks.
Five Democrats met with Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk, who face deportation by the Trump administration.
Conservatives in the House say they won’t back any package without deep cuts that would all but certainly affect the health program. Some Senate Republicans say they won’t accept such cuts.
The Texas Republican, a holdout on the plan until the end, said commitments from President Trump and G.O.P. senators to pursue deeper spending cuts persuaded him to vote yes.