• Americans divided on TikTok ban as Biden campaign joins the app, AP-NORC poll says

    Americans divided on TikTok ban as Biden campaign joins the app, AP-NORC poll says

    Feb 16, 2024 11:25 PM EST

    ... in this space." Last year, former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy joined the app in an effort to reach younger voters, despite calling it “digital fentanyl” that must be banned. Other Republican candidates found other methods to get their messages on the platform, such as producing video clips that could ...

  • GOP Rep. Van Duyne discusses divides in House over Ukraine aid, border security

    GOP Rep. Van Duyne discusses divides in House over Ukraine aid, border security

    Feb 14, 2024 11:40 PM EST

    Amna Nawaz: Well, these are U.S. government and Border Patrol numbers, figures and characterizations. (Crosstalk) Rep. Beth Van Duyne: Yes, but that's absolutely -- it's only catching what's coming through those ports of entry. (Crosstalk) Amna Nawaz: Which is the vast majority of the fentanyl coming into ...

  • What you should know about the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas

    What you should know about the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas

    Feb 14, 2024 02:33 AM EST

    ... Homeland Security Committee has been holding hearings over roughly the last year where Republicans have repeatedly lambasted Mayorkas. Witnesses have included an Arizona sheriff, families who have lost loved ones to the fentanyl crisis, experts on constitutional law, and former Homeland Security officials who served under former President Donald Trump.

  • Senate approves Ukraine aid, but bill faces GOP opposition in House

    Senate approves Ukraine aid, but bill faces GOP opposition in House

    Feb 13, 2024 11:55 PM EST

    ... for Israel, $14 billion, just under $10 billion for humanitarian aid. That does include for civilians in Gaza. And there are sanctions and penalties for fentanyl for international operations and perhaps some countries if they're found to be complicit with fentanyl. Now, here's what happened. In the end ...

  • Senate advances Ukraine aid bill without border security and immigration reform

    Senate advances Ukraine aid bill without border security and immigration reform

    Feb 08, 2024 11:40 PM EST

    It also does include fentanyl sanctions and penalties for some foreign powers and entities. But what is important here is that this is now a bill that has the votes to make it through the Senate. We don't know when it will, because, of course, the Senate takes its ...

  • Senate votes to begin last-ditch effort to approve funding for Ukraine and Israel

    Senate votes to begin last-ditch effort to approve funding for Ukraine and Israel

    Feb 08, 2024 06:45 PM EST

    ... in Ukraine, Israel, Gaza and other places. The revamped package includes legislation to authorize sanctions and anti-money laundering tools against criminal enterprises that traffic fentanyl into the U.S. A separate section of the compromise border legislation that would have provided a long-awaited pathway to residency for tens ...

  • Senate Republicans block bipartisan border package, scrapping deal they had demanded from Democrats

    Senate Republicans block bipartisan border package, scrapping deal they had demanded from Democrats

    Feb 07, 2024 08:22 PM EST

    ... Gaza and other places. Schumer said the revamped package would include legislation to authorize sanctions and anti-money laundering tools against criminal enterprises that traffic fentanyl into the U.S. A separate section of the compromise border legislation that would have provided a long-awaited pathway to residency for tens ...

  • WATCH: Schumer brings border bill and Ukraine and Israel aid bill to floor, challenges GOP to vote

    WATCH: Schumer brings border bill and Ukraine and Israel aid bill to floor, challenges GOP to vote

    Feb 07, 2024 05:45 PM EST

    Schumer added that the revamped package would include legislation to authorize sanctions and anti-money laundering tools against criminal enterprises that traffic fentanyl into the U.S. However, it was not clear whether the new plan, even if it passed the Senate, would gain support from House Speaker Mike Johnson ...

  • WATCH: House fails to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas

    WATCH: House fails to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas

    Feb 06, 2024 10:23 PM EST

    ... Homeland Security under Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., had been investigating the secretary for much of the past year, including probing the flow of deadly fentanyl into the U.S. But a resolution from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., a Trump ally, pushed it to the fore. The panel ...

  • Senators release $118 billion package pairing border policy with aid for Ukraine and Israel

    Senators release $118 billion package pairing border policy with aid for Ukraine and Israel

    Feb 05, 2024 12:11 AM EST

    White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said Sunday that Johnson has “continued to tie himself in knots to delay border security, delay crucial investments in the fight against fentanyl, and delay Border Patrol hiring — as a host of his House Republican colleagues openly state that they only oppose the bipartisan border ...