Tag: Hakeem Jeffries
Homeland Security shutdown grows more likely as Republicans rebuff Democratic demands for ICE
WASHINGTON – Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and...
Speaker Johnson faces tough choices as partial government shutdown drags and debate over ICE deepens
WASHINGTON – House Speaker Mike Johnson faces tough days ahead trying to muscle a federal funding package to passage and prevent a prolonged partial...
Democrats seize on Trump administration’s efforts to fight food stamp payments
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – The Trump administration's legal efforts to fight having to fully fund food stamps for millions of vulnerable Americans is...
Government shutdown could become longest ever as Trump says he ‘won’t be extorted’ by Democrats
WASHINGTON – The government shutdown is poised to become the longest ever this week as the impasse between Democrats and Republicans has dragged into...
Louisiana and Virginia take steps toward redistricting in a growing battle for US House power
Republican lawmakers in Louisiana and Democrats in Virginia pressed ahead Wednesday with plans that could allow mid-decade redistricting as part of a growing national...
New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani rallies voters with support from Bernie Sanders and AOC
NEW YORK – New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani rallied supporters Sunday with heavyweight support from U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez...
Backing Israel was considered mandatory for New York politicians. Then came Zohran Mamdani
NEW YORK – A few weeks before his stunning loss to Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic mayoral primary, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo put forth...
Man pardoned after storming Capitol is charged with threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries
WASHINGTON – A man whose convictions for storming the U.S. Capitol were erased by President Donald Trump's mass pardons has been arrested on a...
Senate Republicans head to White House amid stalemate on shutdown
WASHINGTON – As the government shutdown enters its fourth week, Senate Republicans are headed to the White House on Tuesday — not for urgent...
Supreme Court case could lead to loss of Black representation in Congress, but the scope is unknown
WASHINGTON – A neutering by the Supreme Court of the Voting Rights Act's last remaining major provision would potentially trigger a political avalanche —...
