A bipartisan group of senators announced a deal on gun control legislation Sunday in the wake of recent mass shootings — though the compromise excludes President Joe Biden’s “assault weapons” ban and a raised minimum age for rifle purchases.
Senate Republicans are demanding answers from the Biden administration about a federal contract signed with KPMG last year to promote monoclonal antibody treatments that they argue did little to forestall shortages of the therapeutics, which were badly needed as thousands died of COVID-19.
Republicans have made serious gains in voter registration, sharply cutting into Democrat advantages across key battleground states since November 2020, according to data from Secretaries of State in Pennsylvania, Florida, North Carolina, Iowa, and Nevada.
As the high-level U.S. delegation sent a message of support for Taiwan during a visit on April 15, the Chinese regime said it conducted military drills around the island, reinforcing its threat to use force to bring Taiwan under control.
A group of 19 Senate Republicans and 13 House Republicans helped Democrats and President Joe Biden pass their $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that includes no federal funding for infrastructure, such as a border wall, to reduce illegal immigration to the United States.
Alfredo Ortiz, president and CEO of the pro-small business group Job Creators Network, slammed the 19 Republican U.S. Senators who supported the Democrat-backed infrastructure bill as suffering from “Republican Stockholm Syndrome” and said the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill “is just table ante for Democrats’ $3.5 trillion socialist bill that will quickly follow.”
The Senate passed Biden's $1 trillion infrastructure bill on Tuesday with the help of 17 Republicans when much of the bill "has nothing whatsoever to do with infrastructure."
Former President Donald Trump issued a statement Saturday slamming the infrastructure bill as a “gift to the Democrat Party, compliments of Mitch McConnell.”
