STAT News' Rachel Cohrs discusses rising prescription drug prices, Washington Times' Susan Ferrechio discusses House Republicans' investigations into the Bidens, and Bipartisan Policy Center's Shai Akabas discusses the debt limit.
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland and Sarah Charles, a top USAID official, testify on the conflict in Sudan before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
House Oversight and Accountability Chair James Comer (R-KY), and other Republican members of the committee, updated reporters about the ongoing investigation into President Biden's family. Chair Comer accused the Bidens of making over $10 million from foreign nationals while Joe Biden served as vice president, and said they did so by being associated with over 20 companies that were mostly formed during that time. He and the other members then explained further, naming Chinese and Romanian individuals through which this alleged activity was done. When Chair Comer was asked by a reporter about alleged foreign business deals made by former President Donald Trump's family during his time in office, he replied, "I actually know what his businesses are," referring to Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law. "What are the Biden businesses?...These were set up when Joe Biden was vice president."
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas held a news conference in Washington, DC ahead of Title 42 expiring the next day. The pandemic-era public health order allowed border patrol to turn away asylum seekers. It was first implemented during the Trump administration. The secretary warned migrants surging to the border that the lifting of Title 42 does not equate to an "open border." He added, "In fact, it is the contrary...tougher consequences for people who cross the border illegally."
FBI Director Christopher Wray and Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator (DEA) Ann Milgram testify before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on the president's 2024 budget request for their agencies.
The House will begin work on the Republicans' border security bill as well as legislation to provide states incentives to recover fraudulent unemployment insurance benefit payments during the COVID-19 pandemic.
DHS Sec. Mayorkas on new rules for migrants applying for asylum, House starts work on GOP border security bill, interview with Politico's Erica Orden on Rep. George Santos pleading not guilty to federal charges, POTUS in NY on debt ceiling talks.
DHS Secretary Mayorkas on new rules for migrants applying for asylum, House starts work on GOP border security bill, interview with Politico's Erica Orden on Rep. George Santos pleading not guilty to federal charges of fraud and theft of public funds, President Biden in New York on debt ceiling talks.
DHS Secretary Mayorkas on new rules for migrants applying for asylum, House starts work on GOP border security bill, interview with Politico's Erica Orden on Rep. George Santos pleading not guilty to federal charges of fraud and theft of public funds, President Biden in New York on debt ceiling talks.
DHS Secretary Mayorkas on new rules for migrants applying for asylum, House starts work on GOP border security bill, interview with Politico's Erica Orden on Rep. George Santos pleading not guilty to federal charges of fraud and theft of public funds, President Biden in New York on debt ceiling talks.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and other House Republicans held a press conference from Capitol Hill after the House passed border security legislation, 219-213. The bill passed ahead of the midnight expiration of Title 42, the emergency health order that authorized removal of migrants who came from countries where COVID-19 was present. The bill includes resuming construction on the U.S.-Mexico border wall, more funding for additional border patrol agents, new limits on migrant asylum seekers, and requiring employers to use E-verify on employees. Speaker McCarthy also addressed the impending debt limit deadline, saying he and President Biden would meet next week to further discuss it, and that their respective staff members were also working on the matter.
