Tag: Mexico

Freedom Caucus Chairman and member of the House Select Committee on Benghazi Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is interviewed at the conclusion of the hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015.

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House Freedom Caucus co-founder Jim Jordan ‘open to running’ for speaker

Anna Giaritelli, Al Weaver · April 13, 2018 3:15 pm

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue does not support a carbon tax or other pricing mechanism imposed by the federal government, a spokesperson clarified.

NAFTA likely to be completed this year, USDA’s Sonny Perdue says

Sean Higgins · April 12, 2018 4:24 pm

White sign language interpreter fired

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The speaker’s race runs through ‘Fox and Friends’

Philip Wegmann · April 12, 2018 3:51 pm

President Donald Trump waves as he arrives back at the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 5, 2018, from a trip to White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.

Trump thanks California Gov. Jerry Brown for sending National Guardsmen to southern border

Katelyn Caralle · April 12, 2018 11:43 am

"The number one concern is that we work really hard to fulfill our campaign promises, and that we at least put bills on the president's desk," said Meadows.Â (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

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Mark Meadows’ influence looms large in race to succeed Paul Ryan

David M. Drucker, Susan Ferrechio · April 12, 2018 4:00 am

In this Jan. 5, 2011 file photo, then-Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, who was elected House Speaker later that day during the 112th Congress, walks out of his home on Capitol Hill in Washington.

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John Boehner dismisses idea of a House Freedom Caucus member replacing Paul Ryan

Melissa Quinn · April 11, 2018 6:33 pm

Rep. Jim Jordan, a top conservative lawmaker, disputed that there is any movement inside the Freedom Caucus to oust House Speaker Paul Ryan or seek a change in leadership. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston)

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Jim Jordan suggests Paul Ryan is stepping down because tax reform was his ‘papal conversion’

Anna Giaritelli · April 11, 2018 2:02 pm

Trump and his left-wing Mexican doppelganger

Roberto Velasco-Alvarez · April 9, 2018 4:00 am

A Texas National Guardsman exits an observation tower in Hidalgo, Texas, on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014. Several dozen soldiers in the Rio Grande Valley are the first of up to 1,000 called up by Gov. Rick Perry last month, Texas National Guard Master Sgt. Ken Walker of the Joint Counterdrug Task Force said Thursday.

White House defends National Guard deployment to Southwest border: ‘We’ve got a leaking boat’

Kelly Cohen · April 8, 2018 1:52 pm

President Donald Trump talks with reporters as he reviews border wall prototypes, Tuesday, March 13, 2018, in San Diego.

Trump celebrates ‘sealing up’ the border after National Guard deployment begins

Al Weaver · April 7, 2018 6:49 pm

A soldier stands guard on the top of a hill as faithful commemorate Good Friday during Holy Week in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Friday, April 10, 2009. Drug violence has spiked since President Felipe Calderon began a national crackdown on organized crime in 2006. Battles among cartels, their rivals and soldiers have led to nearly 9,000 deaths and a cross-border crime spillover.

Trump deploys National Guard to US-Mexico border Friday night

Anna Giaritelli · April 7, 2018 3:07 am

Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks at an event.

Jeff Sessions directs border prosecutors to adopt ‘zero-tolerance policy’

Kelly Cohen · April 6, 2018 6:54 pm