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United States Representative James Comer (R-Kentucky, who chairs the House Oversight Committee, once again fell flat during an interview with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo over supposed evidence of criminal activities that the GOP claims to have accumulated against President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

Following a series of unendearing interviews this week, Comer on Thursday insisted that the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice are stymieing their probe into the clandestine connections that Republicans believe the Bidens have with international interests.

Republican strategist Karl Rove suggested former President Donald Trump damaged his re-election chances with his performance at Wednesday's CNN town hall.

During a Thursday appearance on Fox News, Rove argued that Trump's town hall appearance turned off independents. The Republican strategist displayed a whiteboard with his talking points.

Fox News host Steve Doocy pushed back against Rep. James Comer (R-KY) after the powerful Oversight Committee chairman claimed President Joe Biden and his family were engaged in an influence-peddling scheme.

"I know the Republicans said that the smoking gun were these financial records that you were able to subpoena and got your hands on," Doocy told Comer on Thursday. "And your party, the Republican investigators, say that that's proof of influence peddling by Hunter and James [Biden]."

Political brinkmanship over raising the US debt ceiling risks "serious economic costs" even without the "catastrophe" of a default, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Thursday at G7 finance talks in Japan.

Hours earlier, former president Donald Trump urged Republican legislators to trigger the first-ever US debt default by refusing to lift the limit if Democrats do not agree to spending cuts.

The release comes between a pair of meetings at the White House. After sitting down with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday, President Joe Biden told reporters they plan to come together again on Friday.

Biden and congressional Democrats are calling for a clean bill and stressing that GOP lawmakers took action on the debt ceiling three times under former President Donald Trump. However, House Republicans continue to hold the global economy hostage, demanding massive spending cuts that would affect working families—as demonstrated by their recent passage of the so-called Limit, Save, Grow Act, which would increase the debt limit by $1.5 trillion or until March 31, 2024, whichever comes first.

The fate of tens of thousands of people seeking asylum at the United States' southern border will, from Friday, hinge on an app that has just 2.5 stars in the App Store.

For immigration managers, a sleek, computerized way to manage the wave of people expected to arrive when Covid-era rules lapse must have been tempting.

Rep. James Comer (R-KY) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) spent an evening together at the Treasury Department, where they said they were allowed to view bank transactions that they say proves President Joe Biden's family was being given cash from foreign countries. The problem they've run into is in showing that evidence and proving it.

For years, Republicans have claimed that Biden was on the take from China because his son helped negotiate 20 percent of the sale of a mine to a Chinese company. Greene claimed she saw the Bidens had a "web" of LLCs that they were getting money through, including Burisma, which at no time was ever owned or run by any Biden family members. His son Hunter was merely on the board.

Speaking to CNN congressional correspondent Manu Raju on Wednesday, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said he will not support Rep. George Santos (R-NY) if he runs for re-election.

“No, I'm not going to support him," McCarthy told Raju. "Santos has a lot going on. I think he has other things to focus on in his life other than running for re-election.”

A far-right U.S. senator who last year promoted a racist narrative about Black people earlier this week suggested he doesn’t have a problem with white nationalists serving in the military, AL.com reports.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) on Monday criticized President Joe Biden’s efforts to remove extremists group members including white nationalists from serving in the military during an appearance on WBHM, a National Public Radio affiliate in Birmingham.