Category: National Security

Speaker McCarthy, House Republicans Speaks About HR 2 After Passage

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), joined by House Republicans, holds a press conference on the passage of H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act, at 5:15 p.m. ET on May 11. …


Mayorkas Says DHS ‘Ready to Meet’ Influx of Border-Crossers as Title 42 Expires

Hours before Title 42 was set to expire on May 11, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said that stemming the flow of illegal immigrants at the U.S.–Mexico border would be a difficult but manageable challenge for the Biden administration. “This is a challenge, and we are going to meet this challenge,” Mayorkas…


Mayorkas Says DHS ‘Ready to Meet’ Influx of Illegal Immigrants as Title 42 Expires

Hours before Title 42 was set to expire on May 11, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said that stemming the flow of illegal immigrants at the U.S.–Mexico border would be a difficult but manageable challenge for the Biden administration. “This is a challenge, and we are going to meet this challenge,” Mayorkas…


House GOP Budget Plan Would Derail $630 Billion in Planned Defense Projects, Pentagon Leaders Say

Dialing spending back to Fiscal Year 2022 levels would cost the Department of Defense (DOD) at least $100 billion next year and set back weapons procurement by more than $630 billion over the next five years, the Pentagon’s chief number-cruncher told a Senate panel on May 11. But the 14 percent slash in the military’s…


LIVE NOW: House Subcommittee Hearing on DHS Suppression of Free Speech

The House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability holds a hearing at 2:00 p.m. ET on May 11 on the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Misinformation, Disinformation, Mal-information Monitoring Program. The hearing is entitled Censorship Laundering: How the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Enables the Silencing of Dissent. …


House Subcommittee Hearing on DHS Suppression of Free Speech

The House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability holds a hearing at 2:00 p.m. ET on May 11 on the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Misinformation, Disinformation, Mal-information Monitoring Program. The hearing is entitled Censorship Laundering: How the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Enables the Silencing of Dissent. …


LIVE 10:30 AM ET: GOP Senators Speak About Biden’s Border Catastrophe

Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), joined by other Republican senators, holds a press conference on how the Biden administration’s border crisis is turning into a catastrophe with the end of Title 42 at 10:15 a.m. ET on May 11. …


GOP Senators Speak About Biden’s Border Catastrophe

Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), joined by other Republican senators, holds a press conference on how the Biden administration’s border crisis is turning into a catastrophe with the end of Title 42 at 10:15 a.m. ET on May 11. …


IN-DEPTH: Biden Administration Draws Bipartisan Fire for Not Anticipating Sudan Crisis

The only people surprised that rival generals were marshaling forces to battle for supremacy in Sudan were the U.S. State Department and its Africa desk, Republican and Democratic senators alleged during a May 10 hearing on “options for an effective policy response” to the unfolding catastrophe. As a result, senators said, when fighting exploded April…


Biden Administration Draws Bipartisan Fire for Not Anticipating Sudan Crisis

The only people surprised that rival generals were marshaling forces to battle for supremacy in Sudan were the U.S. State Department and its Africa desk, Republican and Democratic senators alleged during a May 10 hearing on “options for an effective policy response” to the unfolding catastrophe. As a result, senators said, when fighting exploded April…