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Senate's 'border security' deal on immigration illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Don’t fall for the Senate’s ‘border security’ deal

By David N. Bossie

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., right, talks to reporters outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024, following a meeting with President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Schumer says Republicans ‘taking cues from Donald Trump’ to thwart border deal

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., right, talks to reporters outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024, following a meeting with President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Senate passes stopgap funding to avert shutdown, sends bill to House for final approval

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Migrants are taken into custody by officials at the Texas-Mexico border, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024, in Eagle Pass, Texas. U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson is leading about 60 fellow Republicans in Congress on a visit to the Mexican border. Their trip comes as they are demanding hard-line immigration policies in exchange for backing President Joe Biden's emergency wartime funding request for Ukraine. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Conservatives pressure speaker to add tough border security to stopgap

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Then-House Speaker-elect Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., addresses members of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Oct. 25, 2023. Congressional leaders have reached an agreement on topline spending levels for the current fiscal year 2024 that could help avoid a partial government shutdown later this month. Funding is set to lapse on Jan. 19 for some agencies and Feb. 2 for others. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Congress again averts partial shutdown, Democrats aid Speaker Johnson to pass short-term extension

By Alex Miller and Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks while standing with Republican members of Congress, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024, in Eagle Pass, Texas. Johnson is leading about 60 fellow Republicans in Congress on a visit to the Mexican border. Their trip comes as they are demanding hard-line immigration policies in exchange for backing President Joe Biden's emergency wartime funding request for Ukraine. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Johnson digs in against Senate border deal after meeting with Biden

By Jeff Mordock, Alex Miller and Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., pauses during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. House Republicans are off to a raucous start in their first week back in Washington after an extended holiday break. Some are openly criticizing new House Speaker Mike Johnson. Others helped sink a routine procedural vote to express their displeasure with topline spending levels that Johnson negotiated with Democrats for the current fiscal year.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Speaker Mike Johnson sticks by his deal with Democrats, insists Congress will finish spending bills

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Adeel Mangi: Hamas' favorite judicial nominee illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Adeel Mangi: Hamas’ favorite judicial nominee must never serve on the federal bench

By Mike Davis

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., right, gives a statement to reporters, Friday, Jan. 12, 2024, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Speaker Johnson is not the problem with our budgetary crisis

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene, R-Ga., arrives as Republicans meet to decide who to nominate to be the new House speaker, on Capitol Hill in Washington, late Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Marjorie Taylor Greene whacks Mitch McConnell, GOP senators over border security talks

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Sen. Joni Ernst doesn’t rule out endorsing Trump, but signals Nikki Haley is preferred candidate

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Migrants wait to be processed by the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol after they crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico, Oct. 19, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. The mayor of Eagle Pass, a Texas border city that's at the center of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's aggressive measures to curb migrant crossings, accused the state Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024, of a new escalation, saying state troopers closed a large public park along the Rio Grande without asking permission. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Senate border deal would allow 5,000 illegal immigrants a day

By Ramsey Touchberry and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., talks with reporters as Republicans hold a caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib) ** FILE **

MTG threatens to oust Speaker Johnson over border deal

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., right, gives a statement to reporters, Friday, Jan. 12, 2024, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Headaches await Speaker Johnson after affirming spending deal

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., meets with reporters as White House and Senate negotiators struggle behind the scenes to reach a U.S. border security deal at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Senate leader Schumer tees up vote on stopgap spending bill, ups pressure on Speaker Johnson

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

FILE -- Rick Jeffares, then a Republican state senator, prepares to vote on a bill during the legislative session in Atlanta, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017. Lt. Gov. Burt Jones and Senate Republicans announced on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024 that they will seek to appoint Jeffares to the State Election Board. (AP Photo/David Goldman, file)

Georgia Senate nominates Rick Jeffares, former senator, as fifth member of election board

By Jeff Amy - Associated Press

Democratic state Rep. Derrick Lente of Sandia Pueblo speaks in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Friday, Jan. 5, 2024, about tax relief and budget proposals in advance of a 30-day legislative session. The Democratic-led legislature convenes Jan. 16 amid a multibillion-dollar budget surplus to address concerns about education, gun violence, affordable housing and childhood wellbeing in an election years for House and Senate lawmakers. Lente is chairman of the House taxation committee (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)

New Mexico Legislature confronts gun violence, braces for future with less oil wealth

By Morgan Lee - Associated Press

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine speaks during a news conference, Friday, Dec. 29, 2023, in Columbus, Ohio. DeWine vetoed a measure Friday that would have banned gender-affirming care for minors and transgender athletes’ participation in girls and women’s sports, in a break from members of his party who championed the legislation. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Ohio House overrides Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of transgender sports-and-surgeries bill

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

House Speaker Mike Johnson of La., speaks to reporters following a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, at the Capitol, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) ** FILE **

House Republicans revolt against Speaker Johnson ahead of looming spending deadline

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., speaks to reporters outside his office after the House approved a 45-day funding bill to keep federal agencies open, Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023, in Washington. The measure, now before the Senate, has been held up by Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., who objects to funding for Ukraine not being included in the bill. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

Senate Republicans float stopgap government funding until March to avert shutdown

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times