
“We’ve got to get the health care done,” President Donald Trump told an enthusiastic crowd of 8,000 Tennesseans at the beginning of his address to a rally in the Nashville Municipal Auditorium on Monday night.
by Michael Patrick Leahy15 Mar 2017, 8:35 PM PDT0

The big question following news on Monday that the State of Tennessee is suing the federal government on Tenth Amendment grounds over its operation of the federal refugee resettlement program in the Volunteer State is how the Department of Justice, run now by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, will respond
by Michael Patrick Leahy14 Mar 2017, 4:31 PM PDT0

The Thomas More Law Center filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of the Tennessee General Assembly and the State of Tennessee in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee on Monday challenging the federal refugee resettlement program for violating the state’s sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
by Michael Patrick Leahy13 Mar 2017, 4:24 AM PDT0

Tea Party activists, while critical of the healthcare bill proposed by Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), are giving President Trump the benefit of the doubt when it comes to the process of honoring his campaign promise to repeal and replace Obamacare.
by Michael Patrick Leahy10 Mar 2017, 5:21 PM PDT0

“Five-term incumbent Mayor Chris Louras of Rutland, Vermont was defeated this Town Meeting Day. He lost to Alderman Dave Allaire by a margin of 52 percent to 34 percent. Allaire swept all four wards,” WCAX reported Tuesday night.
by Michael Patrick Leahy9 Mar 2017, 12:28 AM PDT0

Lori Scialabba, the Acting Director at the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in the Department of Homeland Security, “announced her coming retirement from federal service” on Tuesday, a spokesperson for the department has confirmed to Breitbart News.
by Michael Patrick Leahy8 Mar 2017, 10:30 AM PDT0

Jury selection began on Monday in a federal district court in West Palm Beach, Florida in the trial of Salmon Melgen, “where he faces 76 counts charging him with stealing up to $190 million from Medicare between 2004 and 2013,”
by Michael Patrick Leahy8 Mar 2017, 1:21 AM PDT0

Eighty-nine percent of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims are not affected by the revised Executive Order 13780 titled “Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States” signed by President Trump on Monday, March 6.
by Michael Patrick Leahy6 Mar 2017, 1:18 PM PDT0

A huge crowd turned out at Legislative Plaza on Saturday to attend the Spirit of America rally in support of President Trump’s policies.
by Michael Patrick Leahy4 Mar 2017, 4:36 PM PDT0

“Solano County Public Health officials on Wednesday will begin testing nearly 300 people who were identified as ‘close contacts’ to a person confirmed in an active case of pulmonary tuberculosis disease associated with Armijo High School,” the Fairfield-Suisun Daily Republic reports.
by Michael Patrick Leahy2 Mar 2017, 5:43 PM PDT0

“It is not compassionate, but reckless, to allow uncontrolled entry from places where proper vetting cannot occur. Those given the high honor of admission to the United States should support this country and love its people and its values,” President Trump said in his speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday.
by Michael Patrick Leahy1 Mar 2017, 8:24 PM PDT0

“Solano County is warning people about an active case of tuberculosis [TB] on the campus of Armijo High School” in Fairfield, California, KOVR TV in Sacramento reported in its February 16 evening newscast.
by Michael Patrick Leahy28 Feb 2017, 9:06 PM PDT0

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt met with eleven Western Governors at a breakfast on Sunday, honoring a promise he made during his confirmation hearings and at CPAC on Sunday to reach out to state governments to re-establish trust.
by Michael Patrick Leahy27 Feb 2017, 4:15 PM PDT0

Rogue bureaucrats at the Department of Homeland Security have leaked an “incomplete” report critical of President Trump’s executive order that temporarily blocked the issuance of visas to seven Middle Eastern countries that previous administrations had declared “sponsors of state terrorism” or countries of concern.
by Michael Patrick Leahy26 Feb 2017, 2:05 AM PDT0

Newly confirmed EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt told Tea Party activist and conservative commentator Dr. Gina Loudon in an interview conducted on the main stage at CPAC Saturday that the country needs to get back to the rule of law.
by Michael Patrick Leahy25 Feb 2017, 1:34 PM PDT0

Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning wants Congress to help President Trump get rid of “rogue bureaucrats [who] are not serving the American people” by “cutting the personnel budgets of non-defense civilian departments and agencies, reducing the enacted full-time equivalent number for each department, agency and office by 10 to 20 percent reduction in the workforce on a last-one-in, first-one-out basis,” according to a statement released on Friday.
by Michael Patrick Leahy25 Feb 2017, 8:48 AM PDT0

“A group serving as a central hub of information for congressional town halls was founded by a former Hillary Clinton campaign staffer,” the Free Beacon reports.
by Michael Patrick Leahy23 Feb 2017, 1:56 AM PDT0

One week after President Donald Trump fulfilled a campaign promise by curbing the arrival of refugees from several Muslim-majority countries, a senior bureaucrat at the Department of Homeland Security countermanded his presidential directive.
by Michael Patrick Leahy22 Feb 2017, 7:32 PM PDT0

Breitbart News estimates that the 519,018 refugees who have been resettled by the federal government in the United States over the seven years and four months since the beginning of FY 2010 will cost American taxpayers more than $4.1 billion in FY 2017.
by Michael Patrick Leahy19 Feb 2017, 3:52 PM PDT0

The federal bureaucracy is comprised of about 2.6 million permanent employees protected by Civil Service and about 4,000 political appointees. Many of these bureaucrats are actively engaged in sabotaging President Trump’s agenda.
by Michael Patrick Leahy18 Feb 2017, 11:25 AM PDT0

“Health officials are recommending that 240 people at Renton’s Hazen High School get tested for tuberculosis (TB) after someone at the school was diagnosed with the infectious disease,” the Seattle Times reported on January 12.
by Michael Patrick Leahy12 Feb 2017, 2:29 AM PDT0

“A review of information compiled by a Senate committee in 2016 reveals that 72 individuals from the seven countries covered in President Trump’s vetting executive order have been convicted in terror cases since the 9/11 attacks,” according to a report issued by the Center for Immigration Studies on Saturday.
by Michael Patrick Leahy12 Feb 2017, 1:44 AM PDT0

State Treasurer Ron Estes was selected by delegates to the 4th Congressional District Republican nominating convention to serve as the party’s standard-bearer in the April 11 special election.
by Michael Patrick Leahy10 Feb 2017, 7:07 AM PDT0

Another case of active tuberculosis (TB) has been diagnosed in Hennepin County, Minnesota public schools, local officials confirmed on Wednesday.
by Michael Patrick Leahy9 Feb 2017, 4:24 PM PDT0

On Tuesday, the second full weekday after Federal Judge James Robart issued a temporary restraining order halting President Trump’s executive order that temporarily blocked the issuance of visas for seven Middle Eastern countries and temporarily banned refugees from all countries,
by Michael Patrick Leahy8 Feb 2017, 1:21 PM PDT0

One hundred Syrian refugees rushed into the country on Monday, the first full week day after Federal District Judge James Robart issued a temporary restraining order halting key elements of President Donald Trump’s immigration executive order, “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States.”
by Michael Patrick Leahy7 Feb 2017, 10:54 AM PDT0

Federal District Court Judge James Robart’s ruling on Friday placed a temporary restraining order (TRO) on many elements of President Trump’s executive order temporarily banning refugees from all countries and blocking the issuance of visas from seven Middle Eastern companies.
by Michael Patrick Leahy6 Feb 2017, 12:18 PM PDT0

Many of the 2.7 million bureaucrats employed by the federal government oppose President Donald Trump’s policies and are actively attempting to sabotage his agenda. That sabotage comes in several forms, from secretly circulating emails among fellow ideologically committed members of
by Michael Patrick Leahy3 Feb 2017, 7:24 PM PDT0

Somali refugee Dahir Adan attacked nine Americans with a knife at a mall in St. Cloud, Minn. before an off duty police officer shot and killed him on Sept. 17, 2016. Two months later Somali refugee Abdul Razak Ali Artan attacked 11 Americans with a knife and then a car on the campus of Ohio State University in Columbus before a campus police officer shot and killed him on Nov. 28, 2016.
by Michael Patrick Leahy2 Feb 2017, 11:18 AM PDT0

Two hundred and six refugees, 17 of whom are Muslims, have legally entered the United States in the four full days since President Trump signed the “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States”executive order temporarily banning refugees from entry.
by Michael Patrick Leahy1 Feb 2017, 10:21 AM PDT0