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GOP lawmakers with sniper, combat experience scope out Trump shooting site

BUTLER, Pa. – Republican Rep. Cory Mills of Florida and Rep. Eli Crane of Arizona visited Butler, Pennsylvania, on Thursday and have raised several questions about the attempted assassination of former President Trump. Mills, an Army combat veteran and tactical security specialist, and Navy SEAL sniper veteran Crane visited the site and climbed onto the...

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Six House Dems vote with GOP to condemn Kamala Harris for 'border czar' role

The House of Representatives voted along bipartisan lines to condemn Vice President Kamala Harris’ handling of the U.S.’ southern border, the first piece of legislation targeting Harris since she became the Democrats’ presumptive 2024 nominee. Six Democrats joined all Republicans in voting for the measure, which passed 220-196. The House Democrats who voted for the...

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Jeffries says Republicans are 'making up' Kamala Harris border czar title

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., accused Republicans of “making up” the title of “border czar” in reference to Vice President Kamala Harris, just before six members of his House Democratic Caucus voted to criticize her handling of the migrant crisis. “We have a single legislative item that is on the floor today … it’s...

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Biden’s 'decline': GOP lawmakers question what Kamala knew and when she knew it

House Republicans are questioning whether Vice President Kamala Harris was aware of any signs of cognitive decline in President Biden before his performance in last month’s presidential debate prompted similar concerns among the wider public. “I don’t see how anybody in the president’s inner circle could not have known about his cognitive decline,” House Foreign...

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'Everyone's mad': Fight to avoid government shutdown shatters House GOP peace

The fight to avoid a government shutdown is again bringing out the fault lines within the House GOP’s razor-thin majority. House Republican leaders sought to avoid another messy, drawn-out battle over federal funding this year by rolling out an ambitious schedule to pass all 12 individual appropriations bills before the annual August recess. That effort...

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Secret Service failures during Trump rally spur concerns for Netanyahu visit, McCaul says

EXCLUSIVE: House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, is raising concerns about the security of U.S. and world leaders visiting here in the wake of the failed assassination attempt against former President Trump. “Yeah, I mean, of course,” McCaul told Fox News Digital when asked whether security lapses at Trump’s Butler, Pennsylvania ,rally made him...

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House unanimously votes to create Trump assassination attempt commission

The House of Representatives unanimously voted to establish a bipartisan commission to investigate the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. No lawmakers voted “no” nor “present,” and 416 voted “yes.” Ten Democrats and six Republicans did not vote. The task force will be comprised of seven Republicans and six Democrats, with the members likely...

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Kamala Harris hit with articles of impeachment over border crisis, 'misleading' people on Biden

A House Republican lawmaker is filing articles of impeachment against Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday, over both her handling of the border and knowledge, if any, of President Biden’s alleged cognitive decline. Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., is accusing Harris of breaching public trust and of willfully refusing to uphold U.S. immigration law in two...

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Secret Service Chief Cheatle has resigned. This is how we fix the USSS before it's too late

“The assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump on July 13th is the most significant operational failure at the Secret Service in decades.” These are not my words: This is from former Secret Service Director Kimberley Cheatle’s opening testimony at Monday’s hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. One would think that Cheatle...

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Former SEAL sniper says Trump was 'extremely vulnerable' during visit to PA shooting site

Republican Rep. Eli Crane of Arizona visited Butler, Pennsylvania, on Monday with a bipartisan group of lawmakers and raised several questions about the attempted assassination of former President Trump. Crane, a former Navy SEAL sniper, filmed himself on the rooftop from which Thomas Crooks shot at Trump with a rifle, wounding the Republican candidate’s ear,...