House Republicans are toying with the idea of attaching additional U.S. Secret Service (USSS) funds to a short-term spending patch aimed at avoiding an Oct. 1 partial government shutdown. Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is teeing up a vote Wednesday evening on his plan to avert a shutdown, a six-month spending patch called a continuing resolution (CR), which is being paired with a measure to require proof of citizenship...

Billions of dollars allocated for Ukraine will expire at the end of the month if Congress does not act, according to a warning from the Biden administration.  Some 10% of the $61 billion in funding Congress passed for Ukraine in April remains unspent – and the White House has requested Congress extend its Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) to offer aid to Ukraine beyond a Sept. 30 deadline. “We...

UNIONDALE, NEW YORK – It’s been 40 years since a Republican nominee has carried New York state in a presidential election.  You have to go back to President Ronald Reagan, who won the state as part of his landslide re-election victory in 1984. But that’s not stopping former President Trump from holding a rally Wednesday in his native state, which he has no serious chance of carrying in...