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A resolution by Rep. Troy Nehls, R-TX, is being circulated among Republican lawmakers on Wednesday to punish the House Democrat who was thrown out of President Donald Trump’s speech for protesting. Nehls is leading the censure resolution against Rep. Al Green, D-TX, and is expected to make it public sometime today, a source with knowledge of the document told Fox News Digital. It accuses Green of having ‘willfully disrupted the joint session, remained defiant,’ and...

South Dakota Sheriff Pat West told Fox News Digital he is already feeling the impact of Trump’s crackdown on border security ahead of President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night. West, the Meade County sheriff and a guest of Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D. for Trump’s speech, said the supply of drugs crossing the southern border is no longer meeting the high demand for drugs like methamphetamine and fentanyl in...

‘Squad’ member Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., used a whiteboard to deliver real-time responses to President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday. While other Democrats held up pre-printed signs, Tlaib scribbled several messages throughout the evening. As President Trump delivered his 100-minute-long speech, Tlaib scribbled several messages on a mini-whiteboard, including, ‘No king!,’ ‘What about the immigrants that worked for you?,’ and ‘That’s a lie!’ Tlaib’s actions seemed to be against...

A group of House conservatives are heading to the White House Wednesday to discuss the path forward for avoiding a partial government shutdown. ‘It’s a meeting with the House Freedom Caucus leadership, and then a few of the people who philosophically share our feelings about the fiscal situation,’ House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris, R-Md., told Fox News Digital. ‘And we’re going to hear what the president has to say.’ Fresh off an internal battle...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who encouraged his fellow Democrats to attend President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress on Tuesday, described the speech as ‘the most divisive’ in American history after its conclusion. Jeffries, D-N.Y., said the president ‘did not try to unite the country’ nor did he address ‘serious economic challenges facing everyday Americans.’ ‘Instead, President Trump promoted the reckless Republican budget that sets up the largest cut to Medicaid in our country’s...

President Donald Trump proclaimed that ‘wokeness is gone’ during his joint address to Congress Tuesday night. Speaking to a bipartisan crowd in the U.S. Capitol building, Trump touted his administration’s early efforts to roll back ‘wokeness’ in the U.S., taking aim at ‘gender-affirming’ procedures for minors. ‘I want Congress to pass a bill permanently banning and criminalizing sex changes on children, and forever,’ Trump said during his speech. ‘Ending the lie that any child is...

President Donald Trump promised to ‘make America affordable again’ by reducing the cost of energy during his joint address to Congress Tuesday night. Speaking in the U.S. Capitol, Trump said that he was ‘fighting every day’ to ‘reverse’ the economic damage that he blamed on his predecessor, former President Joe Biden. ‘Joe Biden especially let the price of eggs get out of control,’ Trump said. ‘The egg price is out of control, and we’re working...

President Donald Trump kicked off his address before a joint session of Congress Tuesday evening.  ‘To my fellow citizens, America is back,’ Trump declared after thanking the members of Congress and first lady Melania Trump.  ‘Six weeks ago, I stood beneath the dome of this Capitol and proclaimed the dawn of the golden Age of America,’ he said. ‘From that moment on, it has been nothing but swift and unrelenting action to usher in the...

Conservatives on social media slammed Senate Democrats for posting videos with identical scripts ahead of President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress Tuesday night. Mashups of the identical videos, which included Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., leading the ‘Sh– That Ain’t True’ social media campaign, have gone viral on social media. Many conservatives on social media, including Elon Musk, are asking, ‘Who is writing the words that the puppets speak? That’s the real question.’ Senators Elizabeth...

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) on Tuesday announced the cancelation of $4.5 million in grants, including one for alpaca farming in Peru, another for reducing social discrimination of recyclers in Bolivia and another for promoting cultural understanding of Venezuelan migrants in Brazil. The Inter-American Foundation, an agency given a $60 million budget to issue foreign grants, was reduced to its statutory minimum — one active employee, according to a statement from DOGE.  Grants that...