President Joe Biden announced a new immigration policy Tuesday, and the House Ethics Committee investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz continues.

Biden announces immigration policy change

President Joe Biden unveiled a new immigration policy Tuesday afternoon that will allow spouses of U.S. citizens to apply for a “parole in place” program that would shield them from deportations and offer them work permits if they have lived in the U.S. for at least 10 years.

Biden said he wants to make sure people who have lived in America most of their lives can stay Americans.

“This action is a better way. It doesn’t tear families apart, while requiring every undocumented spouse to fulfill their obligation under the law … I refuse to believe that to secure our border that we have to walk away from being America," Biden said. "Vast generations have been renewed, revitalized, and refreshed by the talent, the skill, the hard work and the courage of immigrants coming to our country."

Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump campaigned in Racine, Wis., Tuesday afternoon, and talked to supporters about what he thought of Biden’s executive order.

“In the middle of the largest border invasion in world history, there’s never been a border in the world that’s like this border that we have, where probably 17, 18 million people by now have entered our country illegally," Trump said. "Joe Biden’s formally granting mass — he’s going to formally grant a mass amnesty to millions of illegal aliens that came into our country."

The policy is also an aggressive election-year move sought by Democrats hoping to gain traction amongst Latino and other immigrant voters.

House Ethics Committee will continue to review sexual misconduct allegations, other claims about Rep. Matt Gaetz

The House Ethics Committee said Tuesday that it will continue to review various allegations about Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., including claims that he engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use.

Since April 2021, the committee has been reviewing whether the four-term Republican lawmaker engaged in a long list of behaviors that may have violated House Rules or standards of conduct.

“Representative Gaetz has categorically denied all of the allegations before the Committee,” the panel said in a statement Tuesday.

Members of the Ethics Committee said it had been difficult to obtain information from Gaetz, but said they had spoken with more than a dozen witnesses, issued 25 subpoenas and reviewed thousands of pages of documents in the matter.

“Based on its review to date, the Committee has determined that certain of the allegations merit continued review. During the course of its investigation, the Committee has also identified additional allegations that merit review,” the Committee said in a statement.

The group is reviewing allegations that Gaetz “engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, accepted improper gifts, dispensed special privileges and favors to individuals with whom he had a personal relationship and sought to obstruct government investigations of his conduct,” the statement said.

The Committee is not taking any additional actions based on allegations that Gaetz shared inappropriate images or videos on the House floor, misused state identification records, converted campaign funds to personal use and/or accepted a bribe or improper gratuity.

“The House Ethics Committee has closed four probes into me, which emerged from lies intended solely to smear me,” Gaetz wrote Tuesday on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. “Instead of working with me to ban Congressional stock trading, the Ethics Committee is now opening new frivolous investigations. They are doing this to avoid the obvious fact that every investigation into me ends the same way: my exoneration.”

Gaetz called the situation “Soviet," laying the blame at the feet of ex-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who the Florida Republican helped to oust from his leadership role last year.

"Kevin McCarthy showed them the man, and they are now trying to find the crime," he said. "I work for Northwest Floridians who won't be swayed by this nonsense and McCarthy and his goons know it."

Schumer says Senate will vote on bump stock ban after Supreme Court ruling

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said that the U.S. Senate will vote as soon as Tuesday on a bill aimed at banning bump stocks — gun attachments that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns — just days after the Supreme Court struck down a ban on them.

The ban on bump stocks was put into place in 2018 by then-President Donald Trump's administration in the aftermath of the 2017 massacre in Las Vegas, where a gunman used firearms equipped with bump stocks to open fire at a country music festival, killing 60 people and injuring hundreds more.

But the Supreme Court on Friday — in a 6-3 decision along ideological lines — ruled that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives overstepped its authority when it put the rule into place.

During arguments earlier this year, the high court’s justices indicated that it should have been up to Congress to ban bump stocks.

In a speech on the Senate floor Monday, Schumer vowed that his chamber would “step in to try and fix the chaos the MAGA court just unleashed.”

"As soon as tomorrow, Democrats will seek passage of a federal ban on bump stocks,” the New York Democrat said, urging Republicans “not to block” New Mexico Sen. Martin Heinrich, who is leading the legislative charge to ban bump stocks, when he puts the ban on the floor for a quick vote.

“Passing a bill banning bump stocks should be the work of five minutes,” Schumer said. “Most Americans support this step. Poll after poll show that a majority of people, including independents, support restrictions on AR-15-style rifles, which is what bump stocks are designed to emulate.”

“I understand that the issue of gun safety provokes intense disagreement in Congress, but shouldn’t we all agree that preventing another tragedy like Las Vegas is just plain common sense and a good thing?” Schumer asked, adding: “I hope our Republican colleagues join us.”

While the issue of banning bump stocks has been somewhat of a bipartisan one — Maine Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican, was part of the group that introduced such a restriction last year, and both Democrats and Republicans have condemned the high court’s ruling — it’s not clear if both parties will come together to support the legislation.