Government
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Lutnick floats workaround to get Trump's name on Kennedy Center
After returning to the White House, Trump sacked the board of the Kennedy Center and replaced it with his appointees.
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Rep Edwards sends 22-page plea to House Ethics panel to avoid censure over gifts to female staffers
The conduct included writing poems for a staffer and crying during a slideshow at her going away office party and paying for a singer to go to a staffer’s birthday party to sing Ed Sheeran’s Hills of Aberfeldy, saying it was “from a special someone.”
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Ratcliffe in Moscow trip warned Russian intelligence officers not to attack NATO countries: reports
The Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022 and the conflict has shown no signs of ending, despite the best efforts of the Trump administration to broker a deal.
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GOP-led Congress turns to budget reconciliation with tax reform, spending cuts after stopgap passes
Trump has asked for "one beautiful big bill" but the comparisons between lawmaking and sausage-making still hold true: Lawmakers are pinning hopes that the budget reconciliation bill will extend the expiring provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) and create new tax benefits as well as offset some of the cost with spending reductions.
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Pelosi and Democrats slam Schumer for supporting vote to advance CR: 'Listen to the women'
Pelosi said that Democratic senators need to "listen to the women" in the Senate, who have presented a counter resolution that would keep the government funded for just 30 days. Schumer previously expressed support for the 30-day option.
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ICE nabs over 200 in Virginia
The operation focused on “transnational organized crime, gangs, and egregious illegal alien offenders” in Northern Virginia between March 1 and 13. The arrests included individuals allegedly connected to “notorious MS-13 and 18th Street gangs.”
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Senate passes Continuing Resolution, averting a government shutdown
President Donald Trump will have to sign the bill before midnight to avert a shutdown.
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Ex-NYPD boss Kerik blasts current commissioner for not cooperating with ICE, law enforcement
Former NYPD Commissioner Bernie Kerik says the current leadership is failing to cooperate with federal authorities.
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Putin responds to Trump's appeal to spare surrounded Ukrainians
The Ukrainian personnel in question are currently positioned in Russia's Kursk Oblast and are the remnants of an invasion force that Kyiv sent into Muscovite territory late last year.
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ICE arrests second person who allegedly participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia
The arrest follows the one made Saturday on Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia graduate student who last spring helped lead pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protestes at the New York city school.
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Sen. Kelly seeks to restore staffing at U.S. park, forest services
Arizona has 22 national parks, including the Grand Canyon, according to the park service. One of the states co-sponsoring Kelly's bill, Colorado, has 17 monuments, historic sites and trails, and national parks such as Rocky Mountain.
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House Dems criticize Schumer for agreeing to GOP CR, AOC encouraged to primary him: report
Ocasio-Cortez called on voters to call their senators to get them not to vote for the continuing resolution.
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Watch Live: Senate to vote on continuing resolution to avert government shutdown
The vote is expected to take place sometime this afternoon.