House lawmakers will again lock horns with President Donald Trump this week over his declaration of a national emergency to redirect Pentagon funds from military construction projects — including $97 million in Nevada — to build a border wall.
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Gary Martin is the Washington correspondent for the Review-Journal covering Congress. He previously served as political and government editor for the San Antonio Express-News. He has worked at newspapers in Texas and Arizona. Martin received a journalism degree from Colorado State University.
The 59-41 vote to terminate the president’s declaration of a national emergency at the southern border is expected to force the president to issue the first veto of his administration.
A last-minute effort by Senate Republicans to avoid a vote on a resolution disapproving of President Trump’s push for funds for a Southwestern border wall appeared to fail Wednesday.
President Donald Trump’s 2020 budget calling for $4.7 trillion in spending landed with a thud Tuesday in the House Budget Committee where Democrats said the irresponsible blueprint calls for extreme cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and other programs.
A Trump administration request to revive the licensing process at Yucca Mountain includes funds to hire 77 lawyers for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Despite unease in the Republican ranks, the Senate will vote this week on a resolution that would terminate a national emergency declaration by President Donald Trump that allows him to redirect funds to build a border wall.
Nevada lawmakers tried to create a new roadblock to transforming Yucca Mountain into a nuclear waste repository on Thursday by introducing bills in the House and Senate that would require the government to study alternative uses of the site.
The move was seen as an effort to calm the wave of criticism unleashed over Rep. Ilhan Omar’s remarks criticizing Israel, which fractured the Democratic caucus and set off a furor that party leaders have struggled to contain.
Nevada is asking a federal appeals court to block the Department of Energy from secretly moving more weapons-grade plutonium into the state.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen defended Trump administration immigration policies and the president’s declaration of a national emergency at the southern border, saying the situation is not a manufactured crisis.
A congressional showdown with President Donald Trump is looming as the Senate sets the stage for the first presidential veto with expected passage of a House-approved resolution to terminate his attempt to take funds from military projects to build a border wall.
Nevada lawmakers will fire the first shot Tuesday in the expected legislative battle over Yucca Mountain in the new Congress.
Senate Republicans abandoned a century-old tradition and confirmed a circuit court appointee without the support of both home-state senators, a break in precedent that a Nevada senator said diminishes the prerogative of states in the judicial selection process.
A panel of scientists are urging a “reset” of the nation’s stalled nuclear waste management system and recommendations to manage and store the material that include using Yucca Mountain as a potential repository.
House Democrats delivered a rebuke to President Donald Trump on Tuesday with a vote to terminate his national emergency declaration and deny him the ability to use Pentagon funds to build portions of a border wall.
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