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A handful of House Republicans are lobbying to reopen a loophole allowing foreign students to stay in the United States for taking online courses at colleges and universities, Breitbart News has learned.

President Trump bucked the political establishment in his own party and the donor class, siding with American workers, by halting a series of foreign visa worker programs.

Senate Republicans led by Tim Scott of South Carolina introduced police reform legislation Wednesday, with new restrictions on chokeholds and other practices, as the GOP responded to widespread protests and some riots over the deaths of George Floyd and other black Americans.

GOP Senators from Mississippi told a local news outlet that statues representing states at the Capitol and a state’s flag is a state matter.

The GOP remains on the hunt for a new city to host August’s Republican National Convention, and Jacksonville, Florida, and Savannah, Georgia, appear to be under serious consideration.

Thirty-eight House Republicans have joined nine Republican Senators in lobbying the White House to continue importing foreign workers to the United States even as more than 36 million Americans are jobless.

Nine Republican Senators are lobbying President Trump to import more foreign workers, claiming there are not enough qualified Americans to take jobs even with more than 36 million out of work.

United States Senate candidate Jeff Sessions says there is no shortage of American labor, calling out lawmakers and their “corporate friends” for supporting a continued flow of foreign workers to the U.S. to take jobs in the midst of mass unemployment.

U.S. Senate Finance Committee chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) told Breitbart News exclusively that his plan to reform prescription drug pricing would specifically focus on reining in federal taxpayer spending on drugs covered by Medicare and Medicaid plans.

Former ESPN personality Jemele Hill spoke out against the coming GOP runoff election between Jeff Sessions and Tommy Tuberville.

President Trump’s campaign, the Republican National Committee (RNC), and joint committees raised over $86 million in February, the RNC announced on Monday.

The 27-year-old Florida man who police arrested and charged for driving his vehicle into a GOP voter registration tent told a local news outlet on Friday that he did not intend to hurt anyone.

The Florida man who authorities say deliberately crashed into a GOP voter registration tent in Jacksonville, Florida, on Saturday was motivated by disdain for President Trump, according to the police report detailing the incident.

A man was arrested after he allegedly drove his van through a GOP voter registration tent in Jacksonville, Florida, on Saturday.

Republicans in the House are planning a full-scale offensive to back up the agenda President Donald Trump presented during Tuesday’s State of the Union address.

The Utah GOP formally denounced Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) after he voted to convict President Trump, reaffirming its firm support of the commander-in-chief and ripping the Democrats’ impeachment effort as a means to “distract America from the serious issues we face.”

President Donald Trump said in his remarks at the State of the Union address on Tuesday at the nation’s Capitol that his administration is addressing concerns about climate stewardship with legislation Republicans in Congress are introducing, including the Trillion Trees Act.

Members of the GOP shouted “four more years” as President Trump took the podium at the start of Tuesday’s State of the Union address.

123 Republicans in the Senate and House are pleading with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf to bring more foreign workers to the United States to compete against working-class Americans for jobs.

The Democrats have rallied around Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) Green New Deal, a resolution calling for the radical transformation of the U.S. economy and infrastructure. Republicans are now responding with their own ideas for what environmental stewardship looks like ahead of the 2020 election.

Chairwoman of the Ohio Republican Party, Jane Timken, is defending Republican governors like Ohio’s Mike DeWine for asking the federal government to continue resettling refugees in their states.

After House Democrats spent almost 24 hours presenting their argument for impeaching President Donald Trump and removing him from his duly elected office, Trump’s legal team took just two hours to present facts that they said “completely collapse” the Democrats’ case against him and that Americans should decide who will be president in 2020.

The Illinois GOP is demanding that state officials “who allowed” noncitizens to vote in the 2018 elections be fired from their positions.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said on Wednesday that 45 GOP senators are prepared to dismiss the charges against President Trump and effectively end the Senate impeachment trial.

A Gallup poll shows the Republican Party firmly behind President Donald Trump as he faces impeachment, with 93 percent opposed to a Senate impeachment conviction and removal, and 51 percent of Americans overall agree.

A federal judge, appointed by former President Bill Clinton, has blocked American communities and states from stopping refugee resettlement — a power that President Trump granted to them through an executive order last year.

An Iranian national who was arrested about five miles from President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, originally arrived in the United States as a refugee, Breitbart News has learned.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) is the first governor in the United States to halt refugee resettlement in his state, a move that comes as the state has been inundated over the last three decades with mass immigration.

Facing backlash, Republican governors are pitching refugee resettlement to opponents as a close cooperation between state officials and refugee contractors who are tasked with resettling refugees.

A number of Republican governors are doing damage control after they approved more refugee resettlement in their states, including Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, and Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine.

Several Republicans heaped praise on President Trump’s measured response to Tuesday’s airstrikes from Iran, which targeted U.S. military and coalition forces in Iraq.

A total of 17 Republican governors thus far have approved more refugee resettlement for their states, along with five Democrat governors who govern red states.

President Donald Trump’s working class agenda has upset the established order of things inside the Republican Party, remaking the GOP into a workers’ party.

Tucker Carlson spoke to Breitbart News Saturday about how the Republican Party has changed in many ways for the better in the past decade, especially under President Donald Trump, but how it is not happening “fast enough.”

The Afghanistan military is getting more than three times the American taxpayer funding than the construction of a wall on the United States-Mexico border, thanks to a Republican-Democrat spending package.

House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy said Republicans think they can retake the House majority in 2020 by turning out millions of voters who backed President Donald Trump in 2016 but stayed home in the 2018 midterms.