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Va., led a successful Senate resolution to end President Donald Trump's emergency tariffs on Brazil, with plans for more tariff votes this week.
Five Republicans joined with Democrats on a vote to end the national emergency that President Trump has declared as the basis for sweeping tariffs on Brazil.
The Senate passed a resolution Tuesday aimed at ending President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Brazil, with five Republicans joining Democrats in a rare bipartisan rebuke of the president over trade policy.
The GOP-led report claims the former president's use of the autopen, which goes back decades, makes his executive actions 'void,' urging the DOJ step in.
As the government shutdown drags into another week, neither President Donald Trump nor most House Republicans are even in town. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has opted to once again keep the lower chamber out of session this week, while Trump is on a multicountry trip in Asia.
House Speaker Mike Johnson and GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene went back-and-forth during a private call with House Republicans on Tuesday, according to one source on the call, as tensions rise during the shutdown.
The committee requested that the Justice Department investigate former President Joe Biden's executive actions, including his pardons.
The House Oversight Committee accused the former president’s staffers of making executive decisions in his place toward the end of his presidency.
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Tuesday he had discussed the limits of the U.S. Constitution with President Donald Trump, and that there was not enough time to amend the founding document to allow the Republican a third White House term.
It's still early, but the Republican field is coming into focus in Arizona's GOP-friendly 5th Congressional District.