Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) has invoked the right to "self-defense" to combat the state's border crisis following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to allow Border Patrol agents to cut razor wire installed along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The U.S. budget deficit increased 23 percent to $1.7 trillion, an increase of $320 billion, in the year after the Biden administration pushed through the Inflation Reduction Act which it claimed would close the government’s funding gap.