Space agency’s GOP fans make their case to shield it from cuts | World News | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
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WASHINGTON — As House Republicans sit down to write their fiscal 2024 spending bills, appropriators are vowing to protect defense, veterans and border security funding from cuts. Some are pushing to add another spending category to the protected list: NASA. While the space agency has long seen bipartisan support in Congress, Republican plans to slash […]
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House speakership fight puts Houston Republican Dan Crenshaw’s chairmanship dreams at risk – Houston Public Media | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) The fight over the speakership of the House is keeping two Houston Republicans from taking up leadership posts. The contest could cost one of them a desired and high-profile committee chairmanship. Congressman Michael McCaul is the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He’s likely to get that chairmanship whether […]
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Alabama becomes latest state to ban TikTok on government devices | News | #elections | #alabama
MONTGOMERY— Alabama has joined more than a handful of other states in banning the use of social media app TikTok on government state-owned devices and networks. Recently, national security officials have warned of the growing threats posed by the video-sharing social media app TikTok, which is owned by Chinese company ByteDance and potentially subject to […]
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15 GOP states ask court to keep Trump-era immigration rule Title 42 | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Asylum-seeking migrants from Colombia board a Customs and Border Patrol transport van after crossing the Rio Grande, in Del Rio, Texas, May 22, 2022. Marco Bello | Reuters Fifteen Republican states on Monday night asked a federal judge to keep a Covid-era policy in place that allowed authorities to severely restrict asylum-seekers from crossing the border into […]
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