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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., talks to reporters just after House Republicans narrowly approved their budget framework, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, April 10, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House GOP wants to pump billions into Trump’s deportations and detentions as part of tax bill

Republicans in Congress are working to pump billions of dollars into President Donald Trump’s mass deportation and border security program.
 
Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba voices his opposition to Mississippi House Bill 1020, Jan. 31, 2023, during a protest at the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Mayor of Mississippi’s capital city trailing in runoff election amid federal bribery indictment

 
U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, left, and Washington Metropolitan Police Department officer Daniel Hodges listen as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol holds a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Biden pardons Fauci, Milley and the Jan. 6 panel. It’s a guard against potential ‘revenge’ by Trump

 
President Joe Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Biden is still considering pardons for people who have been criticized or threatened by Trump

 
Vice President Kamala Harris shakes hands with House Speaker Mike Johnson of La., after a joint session of Congress confirmed the Electoral College votes, affirming President-elect Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Congress certifies Trump’s 2024 win, without the Jan. 6 mob violence of four years ago

 

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Supporters of President Donald Trump climb the west wall of the the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Lawmakers brace for Trump’s promised Jan. 6 pardons. Some are urging restraint

 
President Joe Biden awards the Presidential Citizens Medal to former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Biden awards the 2nd highest civilian award to leaders of the Jan. 6 committee and 18 others

 
Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., listens as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol holds a hearing at the Capitol in Washington, June 28, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

After investigating Jan. 6, House GOP sides with Trump and goes after Liz Cheney

 
President-elect Donald Trump takes the stage before he speaks at the FOX Nation Patriot Awards, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, in Greenvale, N.Y. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)

Trump says he can’t guarantee tariffs won’t raise US prices and won’t rule out revenge prosecutions

 

AP Race Call: Democrat Bennie Thompson wins reelection to U.S. House in Mississippi’s 2nd Congressional District

 

Democrat Bennie Thompson wins reelection to U.S. House in Mississippi’s 2nd Congressional District

 
FILE - Fannie Lou Hamer, a leader of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, testifies before the credentials committee of the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, N.J., on Aug. 22, 1964, as her racially integrated group challenged the seating of the all-white Mississippi delegation. (AP Photo, File)

Fannie Lou Hamer rattled the Democratic convention with her ‘Is this America?’ speech 60 years ago

 
FILE - Representative Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., talks during a hearing on Capitol Hill, Jan. 10, 2024, in Washington. Two Republicans will compete on Tuesday, April 2, for the right to challenge Thompson, a16-term Democratic incumbent, in Mississippi's second congressional district. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Mississippi’s US House primary runoff

 
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas speaks at a news conference at the U.S. Border Patrol South Station in Eagle Pass, Texas, Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

House GOP is moving swiftly toward Mayorkas’ impeachment as Senate focuses on a border security deal

 
FILE - Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill, Nov. 8, 2023, in Washington. House Republicans are marching ahead with impeachment plans, their sights on Mayorkas as "derelict in his duty" over handling of the U.S.-Mexico border. Speaker Mike Johnson gave his nod to Wednesday's hearing at the Homeland Security Committee.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

As House GOP launches effort to impeach Mayorkas, senators want to strike a border deal with him

 
FILE - Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., speaks with reporters hours after former President Donald Trump rescinded his endorsement of Brooks in Alabama's Republican primary for Senate, dealing a major blow to the congressman's campaign, March 23, 2022 in Hueytown, Ala. The congressional committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection has requested for three more House Republicans to come in and testify. The requests to Reps. Andy Biggs, Mo Brooks and Ronny Jackson come weeks after investigators revealed new evidence of their involvement in former President Donald Trump’s desperate attempt to stay in power. (AP Photo/Kimberly Chandler, File)

Jan. 6 panel wants answers from GOP’s Brooks, Biggs, Jackson