Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) once again raised more money from donors than his challengers did last quarter. Cassidy, who faces several primary challengers after his past criticism of President Donald Trump, raised $1.3 million between July and September and reported $9.5 million in the bank for his campaign committee. That narrowly exceeded one challenger, state […]
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Organized labor is getting behind Graham Platner’s upstart Maine Senate primary campaign, just a day after the state’s governor, Janet Mills, entered the race as the preferred candidate of the Democratic establishment. The United Auto Workers endorsed the oyster farmer Wednesday, joining the Maine State Nurses Association and International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, […]
An incident that unfolded Tuesday evening outside Speaker Mike Johnson’s Capitol office has prompted starkly divergent responses from the union representing the U.S. Capitol Police and the Democratic lawmaker involved. Amid a march of House Democrats to Johnson’s office to demand the seating of Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, video footage captured a tense exchange between California […]
Speaker Mike Johnson and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries will jointly debate on C-SPAN, the network announced Wednesday. The debate is set to take place on the “Ceasefire” program hosted by POLITICO White House Bureau Chief and Chief Playbook Correspondent Dasha Burns. The move comes as the two House leaders trade daily barbs over the government […]
President Donald Trump’s move to pay active-duty troops this week amid the shutdown is only a “temporary fix,” Speaker Mike Johnson said Wednesday, warning that service members will miss their Oct. 31 paychecks if Democrats don’t reopen the government by then. The Pentagon moved Saturday to tap unused research and development funding to cover the […]
Rep. Thomas Massie raised $768,000 from July through September — the best fundraising quarter of his career under threat of being ousted by a super PAC linked to President Donald Trump. The Kentucky Republican’s campaign committee also reported more than $2 million cash on hand at the end of September, according to a report filed […]
Senate Democrats’ next tough decision? Whether to play ball with Republicans on full-year appropriations bills or hold out to maintain leverage in the shutdown fight. GOP leaders are unleashing a new strategy in hopes of creating some movement amid the standoff. Majority Leader John Thune teed up a Thursday procedural vote on the House-passed Defense […]
Two senior Republican senators said Tuesday they strongly support the Treasury Department’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund after the Trump administration moved to eviscerate the program by firing all of its staff. The elimination of employees at the CDFI Fund on Friday was part of the larger reduction-in-force orchestrated by Office of Management and Budget […]
California Rep. Kevin Kiley was already one of Speaker Mike Johnson’s loudest Republican critics — even before the government shutdown started earlier this month. Now two weeks into the standoff, Kiley made clear in an interview Tuesday he has no plans to quiet down on Johnson’s handling of the shutdown, the future of crucial health […]
TALLAHASSEE, Florida — A north Florida judge has issued a restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills after the central Florida Republican was accused by a former girlfriend of threatening to circulate sexually explicit videos of her. Circuit Judge Fred Koberlein ordered Mills to refrain from trying to contact Lindsay Langston, Miss United States 2024 and […]