Hispolitica

As the year comes to a close, lawmakers and citizens are preparing to usher in a new decade that will bring forth a promising start and a contentious election season that will dictate the path that America will take.

The House passed President Trump’s amended North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on Thursday by overwhelming bipartisan support in a bitterly divided Congress.

Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro says the lack of diversity in Iowa and New Hampshire no longer makes them qualified to lead the presidential nominating calendar.  Since the late 1960's, campaigns start with Iowa caucuses followed by the New Hampshire primaries. Castro's comments on Sunday evening may anger officials and voters in both states. He […]

It was an unexpected move: the Trump administration announced on Thursday that it would be cutting military aid to the government of Cameroon. That aid was, for the nation of Cameroon, a vital resource in their ongoing fight against Islamic extremism. Cameroon is the tip of the spear in the fight against Boko Haram. The […]

State legislators across the country are once again “rolling the dice” on whether to support gaming in their respective states. With the majority state legislative sessions beginning in January 2020, gaming industry officials and representatives are dreaming of Black Jack and sharpening their arguments as to why gaming is needed in states like Florida and […]

Yesterday, the House unanimously passed the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act. This bill was introduced by Florida Representatives Ted Deutch (D-FL) and Vern Buchanan (R-FL) the law would make it a federal crime for "any person to intentionally engage" in animal cruelty, including burning, drowning, suffocating, impaling or otherwise injuring "non-mammals, birds, reptiles […]

On Monday, The U.S. Treasury Department renewed a license allowing Chevron Corporation to continue drilling for oil in Venezuela for another ninety days.  Florida Democratic Party Chair Terrie Rizzo responded “Once again Trump has sold out an ally to support a dictator. While the President has pledged support for Guaidó, yesterday the Trump administration turned its back on Democracy in Venezuela […]

Earlier today, in Washington, Senator John Cornyn (R-TX); who serves on the Senate Finance, Intelligence, and Judiciary Committees, spoke on the floor.  The Republican Senator addressed the Democrats' handling of the current impeachment proceedings. ‘When it comes to impeachment, arguably one of the most serious responsibilities under our constitutional for Congress, House Democrats have simply […]

This week Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D-Minn) campaign reported raising $1.1 million in the last three months for her 2020 re-election campaign. With the average donation being $14.55, over 55,000 people have donated to the campaign this quarter, according to what her team says.  Omar has raised almost double from last quarter's $617,000 and the majority […]

It is going to be a heated race in Georgia between U.S. Representative Lucy McBath (D-Georgia) and former Republican Congresswoman Karen Handel (R), if Handel wins her primary. In looking at some polling and money raised, it appears as if McBath is set to battle Karen Handel, and she may be reading the writing on […]

Congresswoman Debbie Murcasel Powell (D-FL 26th District) held a meeting at her office to acknowledge the efforts of leaders in the Hispanic community.  Murcasel Powell, who is of Ecuadorian descent, spoke with the ambassador to Ecuador in Washington about the anti-government protests which began when President Lenin Moreno began raising taxes and eliminated a subsidy […]

Looks like the competition is heating up in for the Democratic primary election in the swing state of Arizona. Mark Kelly is a former astronaut and husband to past Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords.  Kelly has announced he will run for the Senate seat that use to belong to John McCain. “I care about people, I […]

Representative Rashida Tliab (D-MI) is undergoing an extended review by the House Ethics Committee over salary issues from her 2018 campaign; prior to her election into the House of Representatives. This is the first time the committee has acknowledged that Tliab’s actions are being carefully examined. Committee Chairman Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) and Texas Representative Kenny Marchant (R-TX) […]

A police officer in Fairfax County, VA was suspended after turning over an undocumented immigrant into federal custody. The unidentified officer arrived at the scene of a car accident on September 21. The driver did not have his license and the officer turned him over to an ICE agent that was nearby. “This is an […]

Michigan Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib was in Detroit with Police Chief, James Craig, when she told him to hire only black analysts for the facial recognition program the city uses to identify individuals. In one of the most bizarre and racially charged comments yet, Tliab suggested the department should not hire anyone who is not black. […]

Looks like Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, will sue the U.S. Government if Elizabeth Warren is elected president in 2020. "You have someone like Elizabeth Warren thinks that the right answer is to break up the companies … I mean, if she gets elected president then I would bet that we will have a legal challenge, […]

On the 43rd anniversary of the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal money from funding abortions, "Squad" members Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., joined former Congressional Black Caucus Chairwoman Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., to repeal the amendment. "I was a staffer in 1977 to the late, great feminist congressman Ron Dellums," Lee said in the […]

Representative Adam Schiff, House Intelligence Committee Chairman, is being called a hypocrite by Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) for a phone call where Schiff said he would be willing to accept dirt on Trump. The two-year-old call was a prank by Russian radio hosts Vladimir "Vovan" Kuznetzov and Alexey "Lexus" Stolyarov, who have close ties […]

2020 Democrats told to "get real" over impeaching Judge Kavanaugh

After the recent mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton were deemed domestic terrorist attacks, Arizona Senator Martha McSally (R) has penned a bill that will make domestic terrorism a federal crime.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, the mining industry is booming, benefiting states like Texas and West Virginia, who have seen their First Quarter Growth Domestic Product (GDP) rise above the other 48 states.

Democrats say it’s a stretch to think that President Donald Trump will win over Hispanics in 2020, but don’t doubt Trump’s assertion that he is anything but very popular with Latinos.

“Mexico makes a FORTUNE from the U.S."

Rubio uses the image of Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) kissing his brother Fredo in Cuba when he discovered that his brother had betrayed him. Rubio then posted the image of Fredo’s last living moments on the lake.

Speaking at a Temple in Plantation, Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis discussed the rise of anti-Semitism, and Airbnb apparent decision to take anti-Israel position. DeSantis said that Airbnb’s anti-Semitic policies in the West Bank, and anti-Semitic tropes that have gripped politics over the past several months. “Airbnb wants to go public, they go public, the state […]

Rubio first questioned a The Post column that stated the “54 countries that recognize Guaido as president are less than 1/3 of world’s countries.”

President Donald Trump has just announced that Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro is willing to come to the negotiating table with the opposition party after the U.S. imposed crippling sanctions, including "cutting off" his country's oil revenues.

This week marked a major moment in President Donald Trump’s first term in office as he asserted that the issues concerning the border constitute a crisis. After taking to national airwaves to share his thoughts on why strengthening border security is important, Democrats held their own response, positioning Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi to give […]

“Many of us who are new members came in wanting to help shape our appropriations because our budgets are a reflection of our values… The vast majority of us who are incoming members voted for a Republican set of resolutions to reopen the government,

As Trump left the White House early Thursday morning, the president told reporters that he "probably" would declare a national emergency if he couldn't get Congress to agree to fund the wall.

President Trump is holding his ground, and so are congressional Democrats, as the federal government shutdown enters its second week. A bipartisan effort to get government back on track is in place, but Democrats refuse fund Trump’s border security wall along the U.S- Mexico border. The decision by Democrats to refute the president seems political […]

The 116th Congress will usher in a couple of new milestones, one of those is swearing in the first Equadorian-American and first South American-born migrant to its ranks. Congresswoman-elect Debbie Mucarsel-Powell narrowly defeated centrist-Republican Rep. Carlos Curbelo in one of the closest watched races of the 2018 mid-term election cycle. Mucarsel-Powell ran as a progressive […]

"I look forward to its passage in the House and signing by the President.”

“This important legislation would empower the United States."

"I can't tell you whether I support him or not until I've been able to review all of that."

Three weeks ago, President Donald Trump rightfully boasted that he helped Republicans, not only retain control of the U.S. Senate, but increase their majority in that chamber of congress.