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GOP Races to Avert Shutdown Over ICE Furor

Democrats say they'll block spending deal over DHS bill as Friday deadline nears, tension grows

(Newser) - Republicans are racing against the clock to keep parts of the federal government open as a political firestorm over immigration enforcement in Minneapolis threatens to derail a key spending deal. Funding for the Pentagon, Department of Homeland Security, and other agencies runs out on Saturday, and Senate Democrats say they'...

Britt: Speaker Told Me Not to Worry About SOTU Response

She says she was 'pumped' to be portrayed by Scarlett Johansson on 'SNL'

(Newser) - Sen. Katie Britt says House Speaker Mike Johnson told her she had nothing to worry about before she delivered her much-mocked response to President Biden's State of the Union address last week. In an episode of fellow Republican Sen. Ted Cruz's podcast released Wednesday, she said she was...

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Katie Britt Fallout Continues

Senator insists she was not trying to mislead with decades-old sex trafficking story out of Mexico

(Newser) - Sen. Katie Britt's first big foray onto the national stage continues to make headlines, but probably not the ones she'd wanted. The junior Alabama senator delivered the GOP rebuttal to President Biden's State of the Union address, and she's been fending off criticism ever since that...

Britt Sticks to Sex Trafficking Tale

No one else can find story's relevance to Biden's border policies

(Newser) - Pressed Sunday about the sex trafficking story she included in her Republican response to President Biden's State of the Union address, Sen. Katie Britt said everyone should have listened to her more carefully. In her nationally televised appearance Thursday night, she described the horrific sexual abuse of a woman...

5 Points From the GOP State of the Union Rebuttal

Katie Britt calls Biden a 'dithering and diminished leader'

(Newser) - Sitting at her kitchen table in Alabama, Sen. Katie Britt called President Biden a "dithering and diminished leader" and warned of a bleak American future under his presidency in the Republican rebuttal to his State of the Union address Thursday evening, the AP reports. The first-term Alabama Republican, the...

Youngest Female Senator Will Deliver SOTU Response

Katie Britt is the 'opposite of everything Joe Biden is,' fellow GOP senator says

(Newser) - "She's young, female, and full of energy—opposite of everything Joe Biden is," Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin says of his colleague Sen. Katie Britt, who will deliver the GOP response to President Biden's State of the Union address. The 42-year-old from Alabama is the youngest Republican...

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