A devastating parasite is threatening to upend President Donald Trump’s efforts to lower beef prices ahead of November’s midterms. The New World screwworm, which often kills untreated livestock, has been discovered in two calves near the Mexican border in south Texas in the past week. The pest’s reemergence in the U.S. is alarming agriculture officials, ranchers and beef… Read more »

On Friday’s show: The U.S. Department of Justice has created a new “Anti-Weaponization Fund” as a way to compensate victims of “weaponization and lawfare.” Two police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, have filed a lawsuit to stop payouts from the fund from going to those attackers. Now, Houston Rep. Lizzie Fletcher has introduced a bill related to the fund, which she… Read more »

Following the introduction of President Donald Trump’s taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization fund,” members of Congress from both sides of the political spectrum are moving to protect taxpayers from further exploitation and harm. Last week, Trump announced a $1.8 billion fund as part of a settlement that would also block the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) investigations into his taxes.… Read more »

Bellaire officials, U.S. Rep. Lizzie Fletcher and community partners gathered May 12 to break ground on the Cypress Ditch Regional Flood Mitigation Project. Several community members and representatives, including Houston City Council members Abbie Kamin and Edward Pollard, also attended the ceremony. “Flood waters do not know district… Read more »

Following last week’s Supreme Court decision to temporarily allow abortion pills to be received via mail, Representative Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX) introduced a bill today that reaffirms the pill’s U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval. The recent Supreme Court ruling temporarily blocked a lower-court decision to restrict access to Mifepristone, also known as the abortion pill. For now,… Read more »

Fort Bend County congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher said she applauds a bill to end the DHS shutdown without funding ICE or Customs and Border Patrol. On Thursday, the House of Representatives passed the Senate Amendment to H.R. 7147, Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026, a bill that funds the Department of Homeland Security through Fiscal Year 2026. This bill does not… Read more »

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was pressed on cuts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), vaccine messaging and the firing of the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during a hearing on Tuesday. The hearing before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health marked the final session of four budget… Read more »

Travelers are waiting hours in massive security lines at some airports, including in Houston, as a partial government shutdown stretches on. Democrats and Republicans have struggled to reach a deal on funding the Department of Homeland Security, an agency that oversees both airport security and President Donald Trump’s mass deportation push. Democrats do not want to fund the agency… Read more »

George Randall got to George Bush Intercontinental Airport on Monday, three hours before his flight to California was scheduled to take off. He anticipated a long wait in security due to a shortage in TSA agents who haven’t been showing up to work because they haven’t been paid since mid-February.  But knowing ahead of time that the airport experience is going to be a nightmare… Read more »

Reaction among Fort Bend County's representatives in the U.S. Congress and the Texas Legislature to the U.S. and Israel-launched war on Iran were mixed, and broke largely along party lines. President Trump announced the launch of the attack shortly after the strikes began early Saturday morning, saying in a post on his Truth Social network that the Islamicist regime that has ruled the… Read more »