News about Jim Risch

On Monday, President Biden unveiled his latest attempts to eliminate student loan repayments for up to 30 million borrowers and promised to'never stop giving relief' as Republicans accuse him of trying to 'buy votes' ahead of the 2024 election. On Monday, President Obama travelled to Madison, Wisconsin, to speak out about his latest attempt to eliminate student loan repayments using a variety of strategies unveiled. President Biden said, 'This relief will be life-changing.' 'I will never stop to give student debt relief to hardworking Americans,' says the author.' The president argued that it's 'good for our economy,' and that millions of Americans will 'finally get to work.' Biden also reiterated his calls to broaden apprenticeship opportunities for students, whether they enroll in college or not, as well as making community college tuition free.

Republicans have been holding up funds for months for the deployment of a force led by Kenyan police to Haiti, which is now under assault by gangs. They have a $50 million fund, but McCaul says no of the money has been used yet. At the House GOP retreat in West Virginia, McCaul told reporters, 'We've already freed up $10 million from congressional notification, not one single penny has been spent.' "I don't want to throw any more money or guns into Haiti until I get promises that it is not going to go directly to the warlords."

The top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said he is doing everything he can to find out more information about the detention of Russian-American ballerina Ksenia Karelina. Officials said Tuesday that Karelina, an American citizen, was arrested in January by Vladimir Putin's infamous Federal Security Service (FSB) on treason charges. The 32-year-old ballerina is led into a courtroom blindfolded in a video shared by a Russian news outlet, although the exact time of the incident is uncertain. Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, told DailyMail.com, "reports of the detention of Russian-American ballerina Ksenia Karelina on suspicion of high treason are troubling.' 'Putin is so afraid of the Russian people knowing the truth about his brutal and unprovoked war against Ukraine that he is willing to use whatever means appropriate to muzzle opposition.' 'I'll do everything I can to ascertain the facts of Ms. Karelina's detention and ensure that the US supports her during this difficult period,' the senator said.

The Senate passed the massive $886 billion annual defense authorization bill, which includes a pay raise for US troops and a short-term extension of the FBI's contentious surveillance system. The vote was 87-13 and included a 5.2 percent wage increase for US troops, as well as the Pentagon's promise to alert service members who were not eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine that they will be reimbursed. It also includes $800 million in additional funds for Ukraine and $11.5 billion to deter the growing threat from China.

Republicans are proposing a bill that will require children under the age of 14 to be fingerprinted along the southern border in order to reduce the use and abuse of children by human traffickers. Single migrant men are 'buying' children and carrying them across the border to appear as if they are a family unit in order to be processed faster than if they came across on their own. 'These kids are actually being used and abused repeatedly as a result of President Biden's open border policies,' Rep. Ashley Hinson told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview.'

Sen. Jim Risch of Texas, believes that deterrence is crucial in dealing with rivals China, Russia, Venezuela, and other 'No Good Nicks' on the international stage. Risch, the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, spoke with DailyMail.com exclusively at the Aspen Security Forum in Washington, D.C. The United States' first line of defense,' he said, is "always deterrence" as it faces a variety of threats around the world because it does not want to'kinetically participate.'

From last year calling their use in the Russia-Ukraine war a "war crime," to this year's assertion that cluster munitions are vital to Ukraine's defenses, Biden's administration has achieved a complete 180. In the press briefing room on Friday, White House national security advisor Jake Sullivan took the floor to defend the decision. He said making the decision to call Kiev the bombs was "not straightforward," but 'we will not leave Ukraine defenseless." We know that cluster munitions pose a danger to civilians, which is why we delayed decisions as much as we could.'

Nick Maimer, 45, of Boise, Idaho, was killed after a Russian shell tore through the building where he was stationed during violent combat over Bakhmut's besieged city. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Moscow's Wagner Group paramilitary wing, posted an appalling video of Maimer's US ID cards before referring to his lifeless corpse. In the clip, Prigozhin said, "We'll bring him over to the United States of America; we'll put him in a coffin and drape him with the American flag." Special forces veteran Perry Blackburn, who has been assisting Ukraine in the war against Russia, confirmed Maimer's identity on Wednesday. Last May, Blackburn recruited Maimer to Kyiv.