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***Live Updates*** GOP Debate Night in South Carolina

Trump versus Cruz (Scott Olson / Getty)

The Republican presidential candidates debate tonight in North Charleston, South Carolina less than three weeks before the Iowa caucuses. Carly Fiorina, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum will participate in the undercard debate, which starts

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Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (C) arrives for a news conference following the weekly House GOP Conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol December 16, 2015 in Washington, DC. Ryan announced that House Republicans have reached a deal with leaders in the House and Senate on an omnibus federal budget bill that would fund the government until September of 2016. (Photo by

Rosemary Jenks: Budget Bill Helps Jihadis and Criminal Aliens, Hurts Americans

The Director of Government Relations at NumbersUSA, Rosemary Jenks, the 1.1 trillion 2016 spending bill, is “a huge debacle. Not only can we not afford it. It’s actually going to hurt the livelihood of Americans. It’s going to help jihadis. It’s going to help criminal aliens. It’s going to help refugees coming from the Middle East but it’s not going to help Americans.”

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REPORT: Mexican Gubernatorial Candidate On Gulf Cartel Payroll

One of Mexico’s largest newspapers has outed a Mexican senator who is also one of the top gubernatorial candidates as having taken money from Mexico’s Gulf Cartel. He is currently one of the favored candidates for next year’s gubernatorial election in Tamaulipas, the Mexican state bordering Texas’ Rio Grande Valley and Laredo sectors.

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Watch Senate Leaders Block Public Debate On The $1.1 Trillion Budget Plan

With a mere 68 seconds of almost incomprehensible Senate legalese, the top Republican and top Democratic leaders together blocked any debate and any public visibility into the myriad unpopular or popular, effective, dysfunctional or counterproductive measures in the $1.1 trillion 2016 omnibus spending plan.

: Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks during a campaign rally at the Siena Community Center on December 17, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Two days after participating in the fifth GOP presidential debate, Cruz began a swing through eight Super Tuesday states in five days. (Photo by

CNN: Cruz Runs as Conservative

CNN reports: “Ted Cruz, eager to extinguish any lingering liabilities with the conservative base that largely adores him, is quietly inching rightward as he surges into the Republican top tier.”

U.S. Speaker of the House Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) conducts his weekly news briefing December 17, 2015 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The House is scheduled to vote on the nearly $700 billion tax package today and the $1.1 trillion spending bill, which will keep the government runs through September, 2016, tomorrow. (Photo by

Paul Ryan’s Omnibus Budget Surrenders to EPA Radicals

Paul Ryan’s decision to remove critical riders from the Omnibus budget bill that intended to stop the EPA’s radical and statutorily unauthorized new rules that could devastate America’s coal and farming industries is just the most recent version of the GOP white flag. A vote on the Omnibus budget deal is imminent in the House, now that it has passed the companion tax bill.

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An Early Christmas Present

In 2014, Americans entrusted Republicans with Senate and House majorities to stop the Obama agenda, but Republicans refused to get in the driver’s seat of Congress. Instead, they offer this back-room, bloated bill to hike spending by another $50 Billion. It is strongly supported by Obama, Pelosi, and Reid – and strongly opposed by nearly every major segment of the Republican Party.