Politic

Because Republicans in the House refuse to do any work, Speaker Mike Johnson has created a huge problem for himself and his party. The deal that the Senate made to pass four of the five government funding bills, but leave the Department of Homeland Security out of it, while only giving DHS a two-week CR, […]

The DOJ wants the American people to believe that they have released all of the Epstein files, but that appears not to be true. It depends on the definition of all. The law that the Department of Justice has been violating for more than 40 days required everything to be released. However, the Trump administration

Senate Democrats played hardball on the government shutdown, and they won. Now, with the American people demanding that ICE be reined in, Democrats have done something that is both practical and hardline. On the Senate floor, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer laid out what the Democrats, and the vast majority of Americans, want: Let me be

Donald Trump once had Republicans block and kill a bipartisan immigration reform bill because he wanted to run on the “immigration crisis” during the 2024 election. Trump did run on immigration, but polling shows that immigration wasn’t the reason why he won the election. The economy, inflation, and costs were why Trump was able to

As Democrats plan for the present and push for reforms to ICE in order to pass Department of Homeland Security funding, they are also looking toward the future. ICE has been so damaged reputationally by what Trump has done that there is a widespread belief that it will never be able to come back. PoliticusUSA’s

A House minority that launches an impeachment drive of a president or an administration official is often doing so to inform voters, call attention to misconduct, or to generate attention. Most minority party impeachment talk goes nowhere because the minority party doesn’t have the votes to do anything. In the House, it is straight majority

The killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, MN on Saturday morning, and the misinformation spread by Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and others in the administration is having a shattering impact on the second Trump administration. After the shooting, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem claimed that Pretti was brandishing a gun at border patrol agents. Pretti

The momentum for impeaching Kristi Noem was building since ICE shot and killed Renee Good. After the second killing of an American citizen in Minneapolis by agents under DHS, Republicans are now breaking with Trump. The pressure on Trump to fire DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is escalating. Republicans haven’t gone as far as to call

The main reason why Republicans have broken with Trump and are abandoning him after Alex Pretti was killed by border patrol agents in Minneapolis is that Pretti was a licensed gun owner who was legally allowed to carry a concealed weapon. The Trump administration used Pretti exercising his Second Amendment rights as justification for shooting

Congressional Republicans were happy to stay silent and get in line with the Trump administration after an ICE agent murdered Renee Good in Minneapolis. They either turned a blind eye or echoed the administration’s lies and misinformation about the shooting of Good, but after Alex Pretti was shot and killed by border patrol agents, something