Peltola-championed legislation includes troop pay raise, crackdowns on fentanyl, new critical munitions storage for Alaska WASHINGTON – On Friday, Representative Mary Peltola (AK-AL) voted in favor of H. Res. 1102, the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2024, securing key defense and border provisions for Alaska and the country. Rep. Peltola helped ensure the government funding […]
U.S. Republican lawmakers sparred Monday over a new bipartisan proposal that would tighten migration controls at the U.S.-Mexico border while also providing billions of dollars in new financial aid to Ukraine and Israel. The measure was negotiated by Democratic and Republican senators during months of talks and is supported by Democratic President Joe Biden. But […]
(Anchorage, AK) – On Monday, Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor joined 26 other states in an Iowa and Utah-led letter to the Biden Administration, supporting Texas’s border defense. “The lack of resolve by the federal government under the current administration is causing a catastrophe at the border that is impacting law abiding Americans across our country,” said […]
“Speculating that the GOP is blocking border security legislation to help Trump win the election would sound like a crazy conspiracy theory but it’s literally what the Republicans are saying is happening.” Critics have long argued that Republicans are interested only in using immigration—and increasingly hysterical claims of a crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border—as a political cudgel, and not […]