The Laken Riley Act, named for the slain nursing school student who was attacked and killed by a Venezuelan citizen who had entered the U.S. illegally, is the first legislative win of Trump's second term.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed the first bill of his new administration, and it is named after a slain Georgia nursing student whose name became a rallying cry during his White House campaign.

Sen. James Lankford has been trying to pass legislation in response to an industry he believes will leave small towns without many pharmacy options.

The White House’s temporary pause on trillions in federal spending could set up a court fight over executive authority and Congress’s control of the purse.

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That means Congress would not only have to act to give Trump the ability to dissolve agencies in the first place, but it’d also have to approve any proposed Trump plan to eliminate FEMA.

The introduction of this legislation comes on the heels of Congress passing Britt’s Laken Riley Act.

The bill, which has divided Democrats, would require law enforcement to detain noncitizens who commit primarily theft-related crimes.

The House voted on Wednesday to pass a GOP-led bill to require detention of undocumented migrants charged with certain crimes, handing an early legislative win to President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans,

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed into law a bill named for murdered Georgia nursing student, Laken Riley.

President Donald Trump has used a signing ceremony for the Laken Riley Act to announce that his administration plans to send the "worst criminal aliens" to detention in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The Laken Riley Act passed Congress with bipartisan support as Trump makes good on his campaign-trail vow to deport illegal immigrants — beginning with those already charged or convicted of crimes, of whom more than 660,000 were present and not in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody as of last year.