Why defunding IRS auditors won’t be easy GOP promise to keep 

Republicans heading into November’s midterm elections are talking a big game on the IRS, promising to take back the $80 billion in agency funding provided by Democrats and scuttle plans to hire what the GOP has characterized as an army of new auditors.  The strategy could pay political dividends at the polls in November if the GOP is correct that the calls will motivate their base, but it will also raise expectations that Republicans will follow through on their vows.   House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) says the first bill a new Republican majority will

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New York mayor declares state of emergency over influx of migrants

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Musk knocks Trump’s Truth Social: 'Essentially a rightwing echo chamber’

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White House says no change in nuclear posture after Biden 'armageddon' remark

The White House has not seen any new intelligence to indicate there is an imminent threat of Russia using nuclear weapons, even as President Biden warned that the rhetoric coming from Moscow put the world at its greatest nuclear risk since the Cuban Missile Crisis. “We have not seen any reason to adjust our own strategic nuclear posture, nor do we have indications that Russia is preparing to imminently use nuclear weapons,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters aboard Air Force One. Jean-Pierre downplayed the severity of Biden’s rhetoric, arguing he was reinf

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Grassley a 'no' on Graham's 15-week abortion ban

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