Stephen Dinan

Supreme Court cancels oral argument on Title 42 border policy

The Supreme Court on Thursday canceled oral argument in a case seeking to challenge President Biden's cancellation of the Title 42 pandemic border expulsion policy.

February 16, 2023

Immigrants in workforce surge under Biden; native-born lag behind

More than 2 million new immigrants have arrived to take jobs in the U.S. since 2019, according to a new study released Thursday that challenges a growing chorus of voices arguing the country needs more immigrants to keep the economy humming.

February 16, 2023

Texas AG mounts legal challenge to Pelosi’s designated voter scheme

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a lawsuit Wednesday to unravel the 2023 spending bill Congress approved late last year, saying too few lawmakers showed up in person to vote on the measure for it to be valid.

February 15, 2023

Texas asks court to halt Joe Biden’s border ‘parole’ plan

Texas asked a federal judge Wednesday to issue an injunction halting President Biden's new program offering to admit up to 30,000 migrants a month under a new "parole" policy, saying the administration invented a new immigration procedure without permission from Congress.

February 15, 2023

A world of hurt: Workshops aim to help federal employees cope with ‘ecogrief’

The Interior Department's Fish and Wildlife Service is offering "ecogrief" training to employees who are struggling with a sense of trauma or loss as they witness a changing environment.

February 15, 2023

Biden and inflation added $3.1 trillion to federal deficit, CBO reports

President Biden and the Democrat-led Congress helped add $3.1 trillion to the federal deficit over the next decade, the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday, delivering a depressing picture of the government's finances and the economy.

February 15, 2023

Sen. Joni Ernst calls on HHS to permanently bar Wuhan virus lab from getting U.S. money

The Chinese virology lab that some analysts blame for igniting the coronavirus pandemic has been stripped of its U.S. funding, but Sen. Joni Ernst said it has not been blacklisted to make sure it can't get federal money in the future.

February 14, 2023

Illegal crossings at northern border ‘historic’

Temperatures may have dipped to below zero along the U.S.-Canada border last month, but the pace of illegal immigration was overheated as people poured across the less-protected boundary.

February 13, 2023

ChatGPT went to Congress, became a pro-choice, anti-gun liberal; refused to write conservative bills

The intelligence might be artificial, but the bias is real.

February 13, 2023

Border numbers plummet as Biden’s new strategy kicks in

Homeland Security Department officials took a victory lap Friday after seeing illegal border crossings plummet in January, saying a new program to convert crossings into legal arrivals appears to be working.

February 10, 2023

House votes to overturn D.C.’s illegal immigrant voting plan

A bipartisan House voted Thursday to block the District of Columbia's new plan to allow noncitizens to vote in local elections, with lawmakers saying the city was crossing dangerous lines in trying to expand its pool of voters.

February 9, 2023

Democrats discount pandemic fraud, fear it will taint government programs

As Republicans work to expose massive amounts of fraud in pandemic assistance programs, Democrats are responding with a feverish rearguard defense, saying that whatever the level of waste, millions of people were saved by the government's money.

February 8, 2023

Biden slams ‘Big Lie’ politics for endangering Paul Pelosi

President Biden on Tuesday blamed what he called the "Big Lie" for last year's attack on Paul Pelosi, husband of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and pleaded for bipartisan condemnation of political extremism.

February 7, 2023

Biden breezes by border crisis, pleads for bipartisanship on immigration

President Biden gave only the briefest of mentions Tuesday to the chaos at the southern border, acknowledging "problems" but saying his policies have finally begun to eat into record numbers of migrants coming from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela.

February 7, 2023

Border Patrol leaders say they need more border wall, gaps leave the country vulnerable

Two senior Border Patrol chiefs told Congress on Tuesday that they need more border barriers because they help shape and control the flow of illegal immigration and drug smuggling into the U.S.

February 7, 2023

Black Republican unloads after Democrats say border security is ‘white nationalist conspiracy’

Rep. Byron Donalds, a Black Republican, unloaded on Democrats on Tuesday after they tweeted that worrying about border security was a "white nationalist conspiracy," challenging them to say that to his face.

February 7, 2023

10,000 cartel drones detected crossing U.S. border last year

One single sector of the southern border saw more than 10,000 illegal drone incursions from Mexico last year, a senior Border Patrol agent told Congress on Tuesday.

February 7, 2023

Homeland Security Dept. confirms soaring migrant deaths at border

Homeland Security released its most comprehensive data yet Monday on southwestern border deaths, confirming a massive surge in 2021 that coincided with the start of the chaos that erupted on President Biden's watch.

February 6, 2023

Debt crunch looms, but nobody knows how much is too much

As another debt fight looms on Capitol Hill, some experts say the fretting over the size of the government's credit card is premature.

February 2, 2023

U.S. must weigh Taliban funds vs. Afghan misery

The money the U.S. is sending to avert a humanitarian disaster in Afghanistan is also propping up the oppressive Taliban regime, and it has become so bad that an inspector general says federal officials need to rethink whether the U.S. support programs are worth it.

February 2, 2023