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“I prefer vehicles with internal combustion engines that burn fuels that we have in the United States," Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said.

Missouri’s U.S. senators lambast lawyers’ group, saying it has become purely partisan political vessel and should not be used in considering judicial nominees.

Now U.S. attorney for Washington, Martin wants all felon-in-possession gun cases to be handled in federal courts, where convictions bring hefty prison terms

President Donald Trump touted the gold card plan during an address to a joint session of Congress on March 4, but didn't ask Congress to take action to implement it. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

He’s sued China, Starbucks, and the Biden administration, among others. Critics call it grandstanding.

Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kans., is moving to reintroduce a bill that would outlaw federal funding to trans surgeries and treatments nationwide.

State attorneys general have a higher profile than in years past, thanks to lawsuits against the federal government and others, and few have been as active as Republican Andrew Bailey of Missouri. He's said he'll seize Chinese-owned assets to force...

Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin faced pushback from conservatives on social media over a comment interpreted as suggesting the brains of Trump voters haven't fully formed yet.

More than two dozen Senate and House Republicans demand the International Olympics Committee to align with President Donald Trump's executive order banning trans athletes from women's sports.

Still a conservative standard-bearer and irritant to liberals, Missouri’s senior U.S. senator is carving out position as legislator concerned with workers’ rights, blue-collar benefits.

‘The truth is, I doubt Congress will repeal CHIPS,’ a CHIPS and Science Act opponent, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), told The Epoch Times.

Legislation Would Force Employers to Bargain Fairly, Timely, and in Good Faith WASHINGTON, March 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Teamsters Union commends Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) for introducing the Faster Labor Contracts Act, which would require employers to...

Welcome to What the Media Missed, where we dig into the many examples of legacy media malpractice that disgraced the nation’s front pages this week—while highlighting how Daily Kos goes past the spin to uncover the real horror stories of our new Trump era.Medicaid in dangerAsk Donald Trump his position on Medicaid and he’ll swear up and down that Republicans won’t lay a finger on the program, which covers over 66 million Americans. Legacy media outlets have largely given Trump the benefit of the doubt—an odd choice given the president’s tendency to just make shit up.Despite his pledge to “love and cherish” Medicaid dominating the headlines, Trump this week backed a House GOP spending plan that would enact sweeping cuts to the health insurance program. Daily Kos dug into what those cuts mean for elderly and low-income Americans, including benefit cuts so extreme that many states will have no choice but to force currently insured seniors out of the program. Meanwhile, the top 1% of American earners would reap the benefits, in the form of a tax cut. Trump must be breathing a sigh of relief over all the soft headlines he and Speaker Mike Johnson are getting, because a new Associated Press-NORC poll found that cutting Medicaid remains one of the most unpopular ideas in America. Roughly 70% of respondents said the government should either preserve or expand Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, while majorities of Democrats, Republicans, and independents all said protecting those programs should be a priority. Johnson and House Republicans cross those voters at their own peril.Trump’s embrace of hardline Medicaid cuts may make things harder for him in the Senate, after Trump ally and Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley openly broke with the president to condemn the idea of gutting the program. Capitol Hill is headed for another entitlement crisis. It couldn’t happen to more deserving scumbags.Ukraine fumbleSpeaking of squishy headlines, the continued institutional surrender of the American media continued this week with a flood of headlines intended to put a normalizing spin on Trump’s most legally outrageous actions. That was especially true of Trump’s stunning decision to align the United States with Russia in its ongoing war in Ukraine, a baffling and sudden strategic realignment without parallel in American history.Even international media outlets got in on the minimization. The BBC described Trump as “very frustrated” that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declined a deal that would award half of his nation’s lithium and titanium to American companies. In fact, this was no “deal”—it was an attempt by Trump to use Ukraine’s war weariness to rob the country blind. What did Republican leaders have to say about Trump’s outrageous and potentially criminal quid pro quo offer? Who knows! Outlets like The New York Times treated the silence of GOP lawmakers as standard operating procedure instead of a shameful dereliction of duty.As it turns out, it wasn’t that hard to find Republicans who were frustrated and even furious at Trump’s decision to betray one of the GOP’s core foreign policy principles. Daily Kos found examples from lawmakers including Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska ,and Rep. Mike Lawler of New York, among plenty of others. The criticism was there the entire time—the legacy media just didn’t bother trying to find it. The sanewashing of Steve BannonLegacy media’s love of conflict was on full display this week when crackpot anti-government podcaster Steve Bannon blasted Elon Musk as a “parasitic illegal immigrant” trying to “play-act as God.” The Times eagerly took Bannon’s bait, framing the feud as a battle between the chaotic Musk and the principled, cost-cutting conservative Bannon.Back in reality, Daily Kos saw the Bannon-Musk feud for what it really was, noting that “Steve Bannon totally isn’t jealous of Elon Musk.” The piece offered some psychoanalysis that the legacy media missed—including the growing realization among stalwart MAGA loyalists like Bannon that tech billionaires like Musk have displaced many of Trump’s earliest acolytes. It doesn’t help matters that Bannon, a repeat federal felon who pleaded guilty last week to yet another fraud case, is now too politically toxic even for Trump. Bannon’s indignation over Musk’s misbehavior isn’t a matter of principle—it’s the frustrated rage of a man who’s realized too late that he’s been pushed to the side. That must come as an especially bitter pill for Bannon, who played a lead role in connecting Trump’s MAGA movement with the tech billionaires who are now poised to take it over. In the end, Bannon was iced out of power for breaking his own cardinal rule: Never look for honor among thieves.Headline Watch with Oliver WillisOh (no), Canada ...xThe New York Times is the problem. Look at this dumb shit in this dumb paper. (Peter Baker, of course)— Oliver Willis (@owillis.bsky.social) 2025-02-18T12:04:36.721ZCampaign Action

Republican lawmakers sound antsy about cutting a program that benefits many of their own constituents.

Beltway journalists reported Thursday on "confusion" spreading throughout the White House and the Republican caucus following U.S. President Donald Trump's endorsement of a House plan that would slash Medicaid and comments from the administration that suggested Trump will not protect Medicare—but Democratic lawmakers and progressive advocates said the message was crystal clear." Donald Trump and Elon Musk want to cut taxes for billionaires like themselves—and pay for it by gutting Medicare and Medicaid," Maurice Mitchell, national director of the Working Families Party, said in a statement. "They don't care if families have to take on crushing debt to pay for care, as long as it makes them much, much richer."Mitchell offered the translation of contradictory statements from Trump that came Wednesday, with the president expressing support for a House resolution aimed at imposing his border and energy policies and extending his 2017 tax cuts that primarily benefited the wealthy.The House resolution "implements my FULL America First Agenda, EVERYTHING, not just parts of it," the president said, suggesting his opposition to a Senate proposal that would push for two separate bills.Calling for $2 trillion in spending cuts in order to fill the $4.5 trillion hole the tax cuts would blow in the deficit, the proposal would include potential cuts of $880 billion to Medicaid, which have made some Republicans in Congress express doubt that they could support the package without angering millions of constituents who rely on the low-income healthcare program.Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is among the Republicans who have expressed "concerns" about the "very deep cuts to Medicaid" included in the House proposal, which Larry Levitt of Kaiser Family Foundation said would "go well beyond eliminating fraud and abuse."Hours before he endorsed the House plan, Trump said neither Medicaid nor Medicare "is going to be touched" in the Republican budget, and his later comments reportedly came as a surprise to his top aides who were unaware of what Medicaid cuts Trump would be willing to approve.The White House further muddled its message about how it intends to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and corporations, including those who helped fund Trump's election campaign, when a spokesperson attempted to clarify that the government healthcare programs relied on by more than 100 million people would be preserved."The Trump administration is committed to protecting Medicare and Medicaid while slashing the waste, fraud, and abuse within those programs—reforms that will increase efficiency and improve care for beneficiaries," White House spokesperson Kush Desai told Politico Wednesday, before sending an updated statement that left out the mention of Medicare.The administration's attempt to remove Medicare from the conversation about possible cuts didn't get past Democratic lawmakers including Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), who said the original comments indicated "a war on Medicare."Voters who supported Trump because they believed his promises to protect Medicaid and Medicare "were had," according to the administration's latest comments, said Helaine Olen of the American Economic Liberties Project."By endorsing House Republicans' budget plan, Trump once again is putting the interests of the ultrawealthy and corporations over the needs of everyday Americans, supporting a plan that devastates the healthcare of tens of millions of Americans," said Accountable.US executive director Tony Carrk. "Trump's statements to the contrary cannot mask his betrayal to millions of people across the country who believed he would lower their costs. Medicaid is more than a pawn in the administration's game: It's an essential program for millions of Americans of all ages."Trump's newly confirmed commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, further made the White House's objectives clear when he claimed on Fox News that Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare are rife with "$1 trillion of waste, fraud, and abuse" and will be slashed."We have almost $4 trillion in entitlements and no one's ever looked at it before," said Lutnick. "You know Social Security is wrong, you know Medicaid and Medicare are wrong, so he's gonna cut $1 trillion, and then we're gonna get rid of all these tax scams that hammer Americans.""Howard Lutnick, Trump's billionaire buddy turned commerce secretary, has confirmed that the administration was simply lying to MAGA supporters about not touching Social Security and Medicare," wrote Malcolm Ferguson at The New Republic on Thursday. "This is a long cry from the party that was telling its voters—many of whom are elderly conservatives on government benefits—that they wouldn't lay a finger on the programs they need most."

Vice President JD Vance leaves the Republican Senate luncheon in the Capitol on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Senate Republicans on Tuesday said they are open to the idea of Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) accessing the IRS’s sensitive taxpayer information, as long as there are guardrails in place. Reports emerged over the weekend that a member of Musk’s team at DOGE was attempting to access that information — which includes [...]

Senate Republicans on Tuesday said they are open to the idea of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) accessing the IRS’s sensitive taxpayer information, as long as there are guardrails in place. Reports emerged over the weekend that a member of Musk’s team at DOGE was attempting to access that information — which includes [...]

Josh Hawley, a conservative Missouri Republican, has been pushing for the rate cap since 2023, a move that has put him in line with the most liberal U.S. legislators

RFK Jr. passed a key Senate committee vote after a holdout GOP lawmaker, Sen. Bill Cassidy, backed him.

The welcome sign at Naval Station Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in 2023.

The Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau risk leaving Americans’ nearly $18 trillion in consumer debt with less supervision or regulation, NBC News reported.One CFPB staffer said Monday that every meeting and work item on their calendar, including reviewing investigative actions, had been deleted.“I think at some point, the machinery is going to start to jam up,” said the employee, who asked to speak anonymously out of fear of reprisal. “What is the industry going to do on its own?”As of Monday evening, the CFPB’s homepage said “404: Page not found,” though other parts of the site appeared to be working. The homepage of the CFPB displayed an error message on Monday. ()The confusion comes after a turbulent weekend at the CFPB, whose acting director, Russell Vought, told employees late Saturday to stop most work activities and on Sunday not to report to the office for the rest of this week. He also said in a post on X that the agency “will not be taking its next draw of unappropriated funding because it is not ‘reasonably necessary’ to carry out its duties.”Meanwhile, staffers at the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency project have sought access to CFPB personnel information, part of efforts driven by the world’s richest person to remake or eliminate entire federal agencies from the Education Department to the nation’s main foreign aid body.Both moves targeting the CFPB have already drawn lawsuits from a federal union.The CFPB has been a target of GOP and Wall Street critics since its inception in 2011. That includes Vought, a co-author of Project 2025, a conservative blueprint for President Donald Trump’s second term that calls for abolishing the bureau altogether. The independent agency, a brainchild of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., was set up by the Federal Reserve in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Last year it survived a business-backed challenge to its funding that wound up before the Supreme Court.In his first term, Trump installed Mick Mulvaney as the agency’s director, who had previously called the CFPB a “joke” and stripped the agency’s ability to pursue discrimination cases. He also dropped a lawsuit against payday lenders and fired the agency’s 25-member consumer advisory board.The bureau is again under fire from Trump officials after an aggressive four-year run during the Biden administration, by the conclusion of which the CFPB estimated it had clawed back nearly $20 billion in consumer relief.Congress granted the CFPB the power to supervise banks with more than $10 billion in assets and to regulate lending by nonbank entities, including mortgage, auto, payday and private student loan issuers. In addition to writing and enforcing rules for making consumer financial products fair and efficient, the agency also solicits, tracks and publishes consumer complaints.One of the agency’s biggest recent wins over industry players has been limiting overdraft or insufficient funds fees. After years of CFPB scrutiny of these surcharges, many banks started dropping the fees on their own. In fact, the revenue banks derived from overdraft fees dropped more than $6 billion between 2019 and 2023. That agency push culminated in a final rule in December that would have capped overdraft fees at large banks to $5, but its fate is now uncertain.Consumer advocates told NBC News shortly after the election that the popularity of the CFPB’s overdraft crackdown might lead Trump officials to leave those protections in place. But last week, the Republican-led House Financial Services Committee presented a draft resolution to overturn the bureau’s overdraft rule.The CFPB issued a separate rule last March that appears to be all but defeated. That move slashed the typical credit card late fee from $32 to $8, drawing swift legal pushback from card issuers. A federal judge in Texas recently rejected the CFPB’s request to lift an injunction barring the rule, and it’s unlikely that the agency will submit further appeals under Vought’s leadership.“I wonder if the new approach is just, ‘We’re not going to even bother to formally change the effective [rule] dates,’” the CFPB staffer said. “We’ll just not do anything, and we expect the industry to also know that we’re not going to do anything.”Russell Vought, the acting director of the CFPB, has instructed agency staffers to halt most work activities.Some relief for cardholders could come legislatively, though that path is steeper and narrower than the CFPB’s typical rulemaking process.Earlier this month, Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., introduced a bill to cap credit card interest rates at 10%, echoing one of Trump’s campaign promises. However, the measure is expected to meet fierce opposition in Congress and from the financial industry. Lindsey Johnson, president and CEO of the Consumer Bankers Association, said in a statement that the effort reflected “Socialist-type pricing policies” that are “the best way to drive up costs for consumers.”The agency has made other strides in protecting borrowers’ credit health, including surfacing violations made by student loan services and uncovering errors in medical debt reporting.In 2023 — following a CFPB report on medical debt complications — the three major reporting bureaus announced they were wiping medical collections under $500 from consumers’ credit reports, causing an estimated 22.8 million people to see at least one medical bill dropped from their files. Last month, the agency finalized a rule that would remove an estimated $49 billion in medical bills from the credit reports of around 15 million consumers.Consumer advocates have pointed out that the medical debt rule, like the rule capping credit card fees, is vulnerable to being overturned by Congress.Under the Biden administration, the CFPB had also been positioning itself as a watchdog of Big Tech and artificial intelligence, as the industries crept deeper into consumers’ wallets. It created guardrails around “buy now, pay later” installment loans and increased its scrutiny of tech companies that have expanded into digital payments.Musk himself, who called to “Delete CFPB” following Trump’s win, has participated in the latter trend. In January, his social media platform X announced a deal with Visa, the largest U.S. credit card network, allowing X users to move money between bank accounts and make peer-to-peer payments.This article first appeared on NBCNews.com. Read more from NBC News here:Wasabi worries and truffle troubles: Tariffs threaten crops that U.S. farmers struggle to growTimberwolves sale to Alex Rodriguez and Marc Lore back on track after arbitration rulingTrump says Palestinians wouldn’t be allowed back into Gaza under his plan

Trump and allied Republicans aim to cast aside the party’s long-held antipathy toward unions and lure more voters.

President Trump and most Senate Republicans are having dinner on Friday at Mar-a-Lago before the lawmakers head to a campaign retreat.

House and Senate Republicans are plowing full steam ahead with conflicting strategies to enact President Trump’s sweeping agenda, putting the two conferences on a collision course. The contrasting game plans — the House’s one-bill track versus the Senate’s two-bill blueprint — have been simmering on Capitol Hill for weeks but are set to come to [...]

Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, said Monday he’s placing a “blanket hold” on President Donald Trump’s nominees for the State Department, slowing down his hopes of quickly installing personnel in key positions.Schatz, who sits on the Foreign Relations Committee, said his move is in protest of Trump’s billionaire adviser, Elon Musk, declaring that he and the president will shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development.“Dismantling USAID is illegal and makes us less safe. USAID was created by federal law and is funded by Congress. Donald Trump and Elon Musk can’t just wish it away with a stroke of a pen — they need to pass a law,” Schatz said in a statement.“Until and unless this brazenly authoritarian action is reversed and USAID is functional again, I will be placing a blanket hold on all of the Trump administration’s State Department nominees,” he continued. “This is self-inflicted chaos of epic proportions that will have dangerous consequences all around the world.”A “hold” is essentially a threat to prevent a speedy vote for a nominee in the full Senate. It forces Republicans to jump through hoops and burn floor time to confirm them, which adds up when there are many lower-level nominees for the department who might otherwise get fast-tracked to the floor for votes.Trump Administration3 hours agoWhat is USAID? Explaining the US foreign aid agency and why Trump, Musk want to end itTrump Administration2 hours agoUSAID headquarters in Washington is blocked after Musk says Trump agrees to close the aid agencyNominees require a majority to be confirmed in the Senate. Republicans have 53 senators, so Democrats cannot scuttle Trump’s picks on their own. But they can drag out the process and detract from other nominees or bills that GOP leaders prefer to spend time on.Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday he had been named acting administrator of USAID. Although the Senate voted unanimously to confirm Rubio, there are many high-ranking positions underneath him that also require Senate approval.Democratic lawmakers gathered Monday afternoon to speak outside USAID’s Washington headquarters to blast the “illegal” shutdown of the agency, accusing Trump and Musk of circumventing Congress.“We will use every power that we have at our disposal in the US Senate. My colleagues will do the same thing in the House. This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today,” Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said. “Let’s not pull any punches about why this is happening. Elon Musk makes billions of dollars off of his business with China. And China is cheering at this action today. There is no question that the billionaire class trying to take over our government right now is doing it based on self interest.”Holds on nominees were used extensively by Republicans to protest former President Joe Biden’s policies over the last four years.In 2023, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., placed a hold on over 400 military promotions for 10 months in protest of the Department of Defense’s abortion travel policy.Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., briefly placed a blanket hold on civilian nominees for the State Department and the Department of Defense in 2021 in protest of the Biden administration’s handling of the military withdrawal from Afghanistan.And a group of Senate Republicans placed holds on Biden’s nominees, including judicial nominees, in the wake of court cases that were brought against Trump in 2024.The Trump administration has yet to formally put forward nominees for many of the vacant ambassadorships and assistant secretary positions that require Senate confirmation. But there are nominees for several key positions within the State Department that are already in the pipeline.Among those waiting to be confirmed are Elise Stefanik as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, along with those positions immediately under Rubio: Christopher Landau for deputy secretary of state; Michael Rigas for deputy secretary of state for management; and Adam Boehler for special envoy for hostage affairs.Veteran career foreign service officers or civil servants are currently the acting leadership in these positions, but they are not able to act with the same authority as those who have been tapped by the president for the position. There are currently almost 100 ambassadorships awaiting nominations, according to the American Foreign Service Union, including senior leadership at the U.S. mission to the U.N.This article first appeared on NBCNews.com. Read more from NBC News here:Live updates: Trump to discuss tariffs with officials from Canada and MexicoUnder Trump, conservatives reignite a battle over race and the ConstitutionElon Musk says he and Trump are shutting down USAID

Independent drivers deserve to be treated fairly, not to become targets of predatory practices.

President Trump’s FBI director nominee Kash Patel pledged in his confirmation to end the "targeting" of Americans by the government for religious reasons.

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One on Friday.

Hearing-mania is set to consume Capitol Hill on Thursday as a trio of President Trump's top allies appear for high-stakes confirmation showdowns with senators that could make or break their chances of getting across the finish line. Tulsi Gabbard, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Kash Patel will simultaneously appear for confirmation hearings Thursday morning, setting [...]

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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is aiming to be the first Republican in decades to sponsor major, pro-union labor reform, Axios has learned. Why it matters: GOP leaders see an opportunity for a new, working-class coalition, which includes more union outreach. It's a major shift, and fault lines are already forming over President Trump's pro-labor Cabinet nominee, former Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer. Zoom in: Hawley has been quietly circulating draft legislation that would prevent employers from stalling union contract negotiations — keeping the process to months, not years, according to a copy obtained by Axios.He is looking for a Democratic co-sponsor.The senator pitched his bill at a dinner Tuesday night with Teamsters president Sean O'Brien and a small group of Republican senators — Roger Marshall of Kansas, Jim Banks of Indiana, and Ohio's Bernie Moreno and Jon Husted, sources familiar said."We look forward to advancing meaningful legislation for working people this Congress," Hawley's office told Axios.Zoom out: The effort comes as some Republicans express hesitancy about Chavez-DeRemer.Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told NBC News he is not going to support her, "I think she'll lose 15 Republicans," Paul said, describing her as "very pro-labor."Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) told NBC News he found the nomination "concerning."But she is expected to pick up Democratic support, including from fellow Oregonian Sen. Jeff Merkley, who told local reporters of his plans to back her.What they're saying: Others in the party see the nomination as a way for Republicans to win over more of the historically Democratic union voting bloc.Chavez-DeRemer's nomination "came about by Sean [O'Brien] and I working together with the President," Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) told Axios. He said she is the "perfect balance" as a former Republican lawmaker and strong pro-labor voice. Mullin and O'Brien have become friends after going viral for challenging each other to a fight mid-hearing. "I think the Republican Party is expanding. I think a lot of that's due to President Trump, and I think that that she should be a solid nomination," Marshall told Axios. He also expressed willingness to back pro-union legislation.Thought bubble: The particular issue of firms delaying contract negotiations has become a huge issue, Axios Markets co-author Emily Peck notes.Unionized workers at Starbucks, Amazon and Trader Joe's have all been stuck trying to negotiate first contracts with their employers — deep-pocketed corporations who are fighting to avoid these deals.

Donald Trump is remaking the traditional boundaries of Washington, unleashing unprecedented executive orders and daring anyone to stop him.

Of all the executive orders Trump signed on his first day in office, the one that reverberated the most across Washington was his move to pardon Jan. 6 rioters.

Asylum seekers wait Tuesday to be processed by U.S. Border Patrol as seen from Tijuana, Mexico, after President Donald Trump began his second term in office with a series of tough-on-immigration measures.

The Beltway Buzz is a weekly update summarizing labor and employment news from inside the Beltway and clarifying how what’s happening in Washington, D.C., could impact your business.Day One Predictions. Monday, January 20, 2025, is Inauguration Day (as well as Martin Luther King Jr. Day). At the Buzz, we are well stocked with coffee and protein bars, as it is expected to be a busy day. We will obviously have a lot to discuss next week, but here are some policy issues that are on our radar.Immigration. This is obviously a priority issue for Republicans, and President-elect Donald Trump could issue multiple executive orders on the topic. For example, establishing new policies relating to the southern border, travel restrictions, temporary protected status, and “Buy American, Hire American,” could all be the subject of executive orders next week.Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, as well as other members of the incoming... Read the complete article here...© 2025, Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C., All Rights Reserved.

Senator Josh Hawley drilled into a migrant rights activist during a Senate hearing on the “Remain in Mexico" policy for saying migrant crime is “not an actual issue."

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem told lawmakers that she intends to end the use of the CBP One on the first day the Trump administration.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be Homeland Security secretary, greets Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., right, during her Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee confirmation hearing Friday. Noem was introduced by Cramer and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D.

Friday's hearing will be her first chance to lay out a vision for the sprawling department that will be central to Donald Trump's plans for cracking down on illegal immigration

A growing number of states are considering legislation to ban or restrict cellphones in schools, part of an effort to remove classroom distractions for students.

Hawley apparently ready to continue support for measures that would benefit labor unions, worker safety and increasing penalties for unfair labor practices.

Missouri’s senior senator and H.W. Crocker III have similar views on America’s moral challenges, embracing calls for a revival of Christian faith.