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A caucus that includes most House Republicans endorses a 15-week national abortion ban and a bill that could eliminate IVF access A caucus representing most House Republican lawmakers endorsed a national abortion ban on Wednesday.  The Republican Study Committee (RSC), which includes nearly 80 percent of all House Republicans, released its 2025 budget proposal on Wednesday, titled “Fiscal Sanity to Save America.” Despite being billed as a budget plan, it is a highly ideological document. …

On the campaign trail in January, former President Donald Trump opposed raising the retirement age and pledged not to cut Social Security benefits. “We don’t have to do that for seniors,” he told supporters. “You earned it.” Trump’s 2024 campaign also ran TV ads criticizing his primary opponent, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, for wanting to change the retirement age, saying she would end the promise of “a secured retirement.” Trump has waffled on his pledge in recent weeks — and now, Republican…

The ritual surrounding the annual State of the Union is never complete until the president’s opposition has presented its rebuttal — occasionally in an embarrassing manner.  Katie Britt, the junior Republican senator from Alabama, delivered the GOP’s rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s address on Thursday. Her impassioned, breathless speech — delivered at times in an ASMR-esque whisper from what appeared to be her kitchen — ended up feeling more like a rejected audition tape for a supporting role on “Grey’s Anatomy”…

The House of Representatives pushed through a government funding bill days before the deadline of a partial government shutdown — and some far-right Republicans are not happy. The $450 billion “minibus” spending bill passed the House Wednesday in a 339-85 vote, with nearly all Democrats and 132 Republicans voting in favor. Members of the far-right House Freedom Caucus voiced their consternation at the compromise. The hardline group released a joint statement Tuesday encouraging other Republicans to vote…

Sen. Chris Murphy accused Republicans of intentionally blocking a bipartisan immigration bill in order to fuel the crisis at the border because it aids Donald Trump‘s campaign for the presidency. “They want the border to be out of control because it helps politically, and they know has limits to what he can do through executive order,” the Democratic senator said Sunday on ABC’s This Week. Sen. Chris Murphy urges Democrats to "go on the offense" on immigration after a bipartisan border deal was tanked by…

Republicans are trying to spin the Biden impeachment inquiry forward after an hours-long deposition with his son Hunter Biden on Wednesday. It’s proving difficult, as the closed-door hearing doesn’t seem to have yielded many revelatory details. Some Republicans are even conceding that Biden performed well under questioning. “I think when the transcript comes out, it’s gonna read well for him, because they did a great job prepping,” Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) told Fox News host Harris Faulkner Thursday. GOP Rep.…

GOP lawmakers have been claiming they support protecting the treatment in the wake of a controversial Alabama Supreme Court ruling last week Senate Republicans couldn’t put their votes where their mouths were when it comes to supporting in vitro fertilization. As the fallout continues from an Alabama court ruling that deemed frozen embryos from IVF were “extrauterine children,” Democrats pushed a vote Wednesday on the Access to Family Building Act, which would enshrine federal protections for…

Celebrating his victory in the South Carolina primary Saturday, Donald Trump declared, “I have never seen the Republican Party so unified as it is right now.”It was an indisputable victory for Trump, particularly given that it was in the home state of his last remaining rival for the nomination, Nikki Haley, a twice-elected, popular former South Carolina governor. Trump beat Haley by about 20 points, and she doesn’t look likely to do much better than that going forward. Barring some shocking development, it’s a foregone…

The Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee released a mysterious statement Wednesday morning that warned of a “national security threat” facing the United States. And while we’re still not sure of the details, a new report from ABC News includes more information about what everyone might be panicking about.Astronomers Could Soon Get Warnings When SpaceX Satellites Threaten Their View“Today, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has made available to all Members of Congress information concerning…

Alejandro Mayorkas is the first Cabinet secretary since 1876 to be impeached by the House House Republicans have voted to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, after botching their first attempt last week.  Despite Republicans in the lower chamber finally delivering on their long-standing promise to impeach Mayorkas, there is little chance the DHS secretary will actually be convicted by the Democrat-controlled Senate. On Jan. 31, Republicans in the Homeland…