Rep. Tony Gonzales's (R-Texas) pessimistic prediction that the House GOP conference will lose its majority in November is sparking frustrations among Republican lawmakers, while underscoring just how competitive the race for the lower chamber will be this fall. The surprise comments from Gonzales at the Texas Tribune Festival on Thursday drew widespread attention, breaking from the positive expectations other GOP lawmakers have publicly hammered home. |
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BY BRETT SAMUELS AND ALEX GANGITANO |
President Biden is charting a course for his final 135 days in office, ramping up his public appearances as he seeks to cement his legacy and support Vice President Harris's White House bid.
After a lengthy summer vacation on beaches on opposite coasts, Biden hit the road for three separate trips upon returning to Washington, all in key battleground states. He appeared with Harris in Pennsylvania on Labor Day Monday and capped the week with trips to Wisconsin and Michigan to tout his administration's investments in rural communities. |
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From heat protections for workers to restrictions on toxic chemicals, the Biden administration is set to leave several of the significant environmental and health protections it has floated unfinished.
The fate of many of these regulations likely depends on the outcome of November's election, as a Harris administration would probably continue them, while a Trump administration likely would not. |
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House Republicans on Friday unveiled their highly anticipated plan to avert a government shutdown that is sure to upset Democrats and has already drawn skepticism from some in the GOP. The 46-page plan would keep the government funded into March 2025, while tacking on language for stricter proof-of-citizenship requirements for voting, setting the stage for a budget showdown with Senate Democrats later this month. |
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Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said she would be backing Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas) in the Texas Senate race, endorsing the House member over the Republican incumbent, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). "I want to say specifically, though, here in Texas, you guys do have a tremendous, serious candidate running for the United States Senate," Cheney said during her Friday appearance at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, stopping as she was cut off by a raucous applause. |
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Former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney, who served with former President George W. Bush, said Friday that he will support Vice President Harris in the November election. Cheney issued a statement confirming he would back the Democratic nominee over former President Trump, hours after his daughter, former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), told an audience in Texas that he would be voting for Harris. |
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Ian Sams, a spokesperson for Vice President Harris's campaign, took a slight swing at Fox News anchor Dana Perino during an interview Friday. "Is it a risk to put all your chips on one debate, when she hasn't really been able to do any sort of Q and A with anybody, except for in debate prep?" Perino asked Sams on Fox News's "America's Newsroom," referring to Harris. |
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Mark Geragos, an attorney for Hunter Biden, said Friday that the president's son pleaded guilty in his federal tax case due to him not wanting to put his family through the "parade" that a trial could bring. "He pled open because … his defense was eviscerated, and he did not want to further put his family through a horrible, horrible kind of parade for no reason, basically," Garagos told NewsNation's Blake Burman on "The Hill." "It was salacious for no reason." |
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BY ZACH SCHONFELD AND ELLA LEE |
A New York judge on Friday delayed former President Trump's sentencing until Nov. 26, a ruling that ensures Trump will not face any criminal punishment until after the election. Trump has employed delay as a habitual legal strategy, hoping to retake the White House and halt his prosecutions. |
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OPINION | Last week, California's legislature passed a bill banning deepfakes, citing concerns over how AI tools are increasingly being used to trick voters, among other crimes. I say, good luck with that! Deepfakes are just one part of the political misinformation campaigns carried out by some of our most trusted platforms over the last few years. |
OPINION | The Biden administration is offering 500,000 undocumented immigrants protection from deportation and an opportunity to become citizens under a new "parole in place" policy. The protection is offered to persons married to U.S. citizens who have lived in the U.S. for at least 10 years with no felony convictions. Republicans are suing to stop this, framing the policy as an attempt to swell the ranks of Democratic-leaning voters at the expense of enforcing immigration laws. This is not an unfounded fear. |
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BY JONATHAN SWAN, MAGGIE HABERMAN, KATIE ROGERS AND REID J. EPSTEIN |
Vice President Kamala Harris is holed up for five days in a Pittsburgh hotel, doing highly choreographed debate practice sessions ahead of Tuesday night's clash. There's a stage and replica TV lighting and an adviser in full Lee Strasberg method-acting mode, not just playing Donald J. Trump but inhabiting him, wearing a boxy suit and a long tie. The former president's preparations are more improv. |
BY TARINI PARTI AND ANDREW RESTUCCIA |
When Kamala Harris made the decision in 2011 to pull out of multistate mortgage settlement negotiations during the foreclosure crisis—a defining moment in her political career—the then-California attorney general drafted a blistering letter with the help of one of her most trusted aides. The pair debated every word, with Harris peering over her aide's shoulder as he typed. "I have concluded that this is not the deal California homeowners have been waiting for," they wrote. More than a decade later, that aide, Brian Nelson, was one of the first people Harris hired during another defining moment in her political career. |
BY MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER AND CAL WOODWARD |
Inside Washington's federal courthouse, there's no denying the reality of Jan. 6, 2021. Day after day, judges and jurors silently absorb the chilling sights and sounds from television screens of rioters beating police, shattering windows and hunting for lawmakers as democracy lay under siege. But as he seeks to reclaim the White House, Donald Trump continues to portray the defendants as patriots worthy of admiration, an assertion that has been undercut by the adjudicated truth in hundreds of criminal cases where judges and juries have reached the opposite conclusion about what history will remember as one of America's darkest days. |
BY DAN LAMOTHE AND ABIGAIL HAUSLOHNER |
House Republicans are expanding their investigation of the Biden administration's withdrawal from Afghanistan, according to people familiar with that matter, pursuing additional witness testimony as former president Donald Trump attempts to make the war's deadly endgame a central issue with the election now weeks away. The House Foreign Affairs Committee's GOP majority has been in contact with at least three senior military officers who were in Kabul in August 2021 and directly involved in the hastily organized evacuation of tens of thousands of people whose safety was in jeopardy when the Afghan government collapsed. The operation left U.S. forces partially reliant for their security on Taliban militants, whose regime U.S. and coalition forces had warred with for 20 years, as they made a stunning return to power. |
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