Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX) on Tuesday filed articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. The survey found that three-quarters, 76 percent, are concerned about the size of the U.S. national debt, which stands at over $31.4 trillion. According the U.S. national debt clock, that amounts to over $94,000 per U.S. citizen and more than $246,000 per U.S taxpayer. The House voted Tuesday afternoon to establish a new special panel to probe what Republicans call the "weaponization of the federal government." House Speaker Kevin McCarthy confirmed late Monday that he will make good on his pre-midterm pledge to remove three high-profile Democrats — Reps. Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell and Ilhan Omar — from their House committees.

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Steve call into the show for the first time since his 3 week holiday break and catches up with how he spent his holiday over in his home country of the United Kingdom. Also discussed is the California Budget shortage, reparations, the teacher preparation program study, and they talk about the speaker of the house fiasco. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, one of the House GOP’s most prominent figures, was denied the chairmanship of the chamber’s Homeland Security Committee Monday in favor of a member of the right-wing House Freedom Caucus — days after Crenshaw called opponents of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy “terrorists.”

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Things went from bad to worse for Rep. George Santos (R-NY) on Monday after a complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission accused the Republican of a wide range of campaign finance violations. The White House refuses to comment or provide clarity on President Joe Biden’s remark to a Salvation Army official in El Paso this past weekend — that he spent time with the Secret Service in Poland and Ukraine. Attorney General Merrick Garland assigned a U.S. attorney to review the roughly ten classified documents that were found in an old office of President Joe Biden, CBS News reported on Monday. According to a report released by Chicago Public Schools’ Office of the Inspector General, the 2021-2022 school year saw 772 investigations into teachers for allegedly raping, sexually assaulting, or grooming students.

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Republicans in the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that would abolish the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), eliminate the national income tax, and replace it with a national consumption tax. Outgoing Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is conducting focus groups of Republican voters around the country as part of his not-yet-official 2024 presidential campaign, the governor confirmed on Monday night in a farewell interview with the Washington Examiner. Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), the Rules Committee ranking member, called the procedures of the new Congress passed by the House “essentially a ransom note to America from the extreme Right” on early Monday evening as lawmakers debated the package before a final vote.

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Prince Harry has revealed that in the decades-long wake of his mother Princess Diana’s death, he turned to “drinking heavy” and — and sampled a series of mind-altering hard drugs. Elon Musk's Twitter takeover has made him so unpopular in the state of California that it's unlikely he'd be able to get a fair trial, his lawyers argued in a recent court filing. Air Force One touched down in El Paso, Texas, on Sunday afternoon as President Biden made his first trip to the beleaguered Mexican border since he took office two years ago — for a brief three hour visit.

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California's government is facing an estimated budget deficit of $24 billion this year, a stark reversal from the record-setting surpluses that the state saw in recent years which comes amid ongoing inflation and heightened fears of a looming recession. Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., revealed on Sunday that he is being placed on the House Republican Steering Committee in exchange for supporting Kevin McCarthy for House speaker. The California branch of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the largest employee union in state government and the purple-and-yellow shock troops of the Democratic Party, has ousted its president. California Gov. Gavin Newsom used his second-term inaugural address at the state Capitol to take swipes at leading nameless Republican politicians.

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Seven conservative bills are guaranteed to receive a House vote as a result of last week’s tough speakership negotiations. Texas Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw apologized on Sunday for referring to some of his GOP colleagues as “terrorists” during negotiations that led to the election of Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as House speaker. President Joe Biden is reportedly gearing up to declare a 2024 re-election bid after months of speculation about whether the 80-year-old Democrat had another campaign in him.

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Opposition to House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) for Speaker from a handful of Republican members has the potential to derail his bid and set a marker in history as the first multiple-ballot Speaker election in a century. For five years in a row, Finland has ranked No. 1 as the happiest country in the world, according to the World Happiness Report. 

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Friday marks the second anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection.

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Opposition to House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) for Speaker from a handful of Republican members has the potential to derail his bid and set a marker in history as the first multiple-ballot Speaker election in a century. A strip mall home to two popular restaurants was severely damaged by fire Friday morning in southeast Fresno. Fresno County Superior Court has decided to rescind the Emergency Zero-Dollar Bail.

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