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President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are both traveling to Texas border towns on Feb. 29, 2024, and are expected to fault each other for chaos in border enforcement and the high number of undocumented migrant crossings. Their dueling visits follow a failed Senate proposal to tighten border security and make it tougher for people to get asylum in the U.S. They also coincide with Americans’ rising concern about immigration. Texas Governor Greg Abbott has been battling with the Biden administration since 2021 over the state’s ability to secure its border with Mexico. Under Abbott’s leadership, Texas has sent Texas National Guard troops and state troopers to its 1,254-mile-long border with Mexico. Texas is the only border state that has built its own wall, partially dividing itself from Mexico. Texas has also constructed more than 100 miles of other barriers along the border. I am a scholar of Texas politics and government at Rice University’s Baker Institute. T...

Americans divide closely on whom they'd blame if the federal government defaults on its debts, even as most align with the Biden administration's position. Americans divide closely on whom they'd blame if the federal government default s on its debts, even as most align with the Biden administration's position on how Congress should handle the issue. If default occurs -- as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Monday could happen by June 1 -- 39% in this ABC News/Washington Post poll say they'd mainly blame the Republicans in Congress, while virtually as many, 36%, say they'd mainly blame Biden. Sixteen percent volunteer that they'd blame both equally. MORE: US debt limit: How a default could affect you That looks like a messaging snafu on President Joe Biden's part, since many more people take his side than the Republican position on the issue. Fifty-eight percent say debt payment and federal spending cuts should be handled separately, as Bide...

U.S. government networks were hit by a cyberattack affecting several agencies, but the attack does not pose a major risk to national security, an official said Thursday U.S. government networks were hit by a cyberattack affecting several federal agencies, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly confirmed on Thursday. CISA, a part of the Department of Homeland Security, previously identified a gap in software security believed to have been exploited in attack. An electronic file transfer application, MOVEit Transfer, is thought to be the target of the broader cyber intrusion, one official said. A spokesperson for Mandiant, the cyber intelligence arm of Google Cloud, said government data was stolen in the attack. CISA officials declined to say how many federal agencies were impacted and did not say who was behind the attack. Easterly downplayed the severity of the attack in a call to reporters, saying the intrusion was not as damaging as the SolarWinds hack...

Despite what prosecutors claim in Trump's indictment, he said on Fox News on Monday he hadn't shown a classified document to someone else after leaving the White House Despite what prosecutors claim in an unprecedented indictment against him, including an alleged recording of him saying otherwise, Donald Trump insisted on Monday that he hadn't shown a classified document to someone else after leaving the White House. The former president was interviewed by Fox News' Bret Baier, who pressed Trump on one of the most notable parts of the indictment that outlines the 37 federal charges against him. Prosecutors wrote in the indictment that on July 21, 2021, Trump allegedly showed what he called "secret information" to other people at his club in Bedminster, New Jersey, and acknowledged it was still classified and "highly confidential." According to the indictment, Trump allegedly said the information was "done by the military and given to me"...

Americans would be able to order the tests at CovidTests.Gov in coming weeks. The federal government program used for the last two winters to send free COVID tests to Americans' homes will get up-and-running once again in the coming weeks, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said Wednesday. Becerra made the announcement speaking to reporters at a CVS drugstore in Washington, D.C., while getting his updated COVID shot and flu shot. CovidTests.Gov has been an on-and-off presence since the winter of 2022, when the omicron variant was ripping across the country. COVID-19 rapid antigen tests are seen in this illustration photo, Jan. 31, 2023. Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images, FILE MORE: Weekly COVID hospitalizations reach 20,000 for 1st time since March but new vaccine could help: Experts At the time, President Joe Biden pledged to give out 1 billion free rapid tests. But the site was temporarily shut down that fall as a political fight dragged on over COVID fundi...

House members are headed home for the weekend – signaling that with just nine days to go, there is no funding deal in sight. Just hours after another embarrassing setback for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in his quest to avert a government shutdown, members are headed home for the weekend – signaling that with just nine days to go, there is no funding deal in sight. There won't be any other House votes for the rest of Thursday, and if votes are scheduled for Friday or the weekend, members will be given "ample notice," said Majority Whip Tom Emmer's office. Members will be "on call" through the weekend, Emmer added. Earlier Thursday, the House failed for the second time this week to bring up the GOP defense spending bill for debate, in another crushing defeat for McCarthy, R-Calif. MORE: McCarthy unsure if proposed short-term funding bill will pass as key sticking points remain Members of a group of Republican hard-liners once again voted against GOP leadersh...

A Supreme Court case brought by a group of herring fishermen from New Jersey could upend government's ability to regulate health care, environment and tax collection. CAPE MAY, N.J. -- For nearly 50 years, America's herring fishermen have been required to take federal monitor s on their boats when they set out into the North Atlantic in search of a big catch. Aboard cramped private trawlers, the monitors record the health of fish and of the sea. But when regulators asked the fishermen to pay the monitors' salaries, many said the government had gone too far. "We don't mind taking observers, you know, we have for decades now," said Stefan Axelsson, a third-generation herring fisherman. "But to be told to pay for it just isn't right." "Me and everybody around me is concerned about that, highly concerned," added Bill Bright, who has been in the herring business for four decades, "because the margins are so tight right now." Th...

Military families make sacrifices to help protect the U.S. every day -- and now they are facing an uncertain financial future should a government shutdown happen. As the nation nears another government shutdown, military families face an uncertain financial future where they may not receive a paycheck unless a spending deal passes in time. Besa Pinchotti is chief executive officer of the National Military Family Association. Her husband, Dave, is a veteran of the Marine Corps and currently a civilian employed by the Air Force; his paycheck could be affected or cut by the shutdown , if it happens. "I have no idea if my husband will get a paycheck," Pinchotti told ABC News Senior Congressional Correspondent Rachel Scott. "We're just going about our business hoping that he will, but planning in case he doesn't." MORE: 'They don't care about us': Workers who would go without pay in government shutdown speak out A government shutdown appears inc...