Rep. Jerry Nadler called for New York City Mayor Eric Adams to resign after he was charged with accepting illegal foreign contributions and engaging in wire fraud and bribery. “[T]here are questions of whether the Mayor can continue to effectively lead our City as Mayor at this time. My belief is that the Mayor has […]
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy hasn’t lost Republicans — but he’s on notice. Even some Republican supporters of Ukraine on Capitol Hill said that the Ukrainian President had made a strategic error when he visited a weapons plant in Scranton, Pennsylvania, over the weekend and separately waded into the presidential race by calling JD Vance “too radical” in […]
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell lambasted a proposal from Vice President Kamala Harris to eliminate the filibuster to pass abortion rights legislation — warning Democrats that they will rue the move when Republicans next control Washington. “What they want to do is break the institution in order to achieve what they want to achieve,” he […]
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) said Thursday he will no longer voluntarily cooperate with a House Ethics Committee investigation into his conduct, calling the probe “uncomfortably nosey.” In a lengthy letter to the committee posted to social media platform X, Gaetz said he’s aware of a subpoena from the committee but that it has not yet been […]
The Secret Service didn’t testify Thursday before a House task force investigating the two assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump. But it’s the main focus of the panel’s first public hearing. The House panel used a hearing with state and local law enforcement, as well as a former Secret Service official, to drill down […]
Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) infuriated many of his House colleagues with his since-deleted racist X post about Haitian migrants, prompting a top Black Democrat to introduce a measure to formally reprimand him that will likely see a floor vote. Congressional Black Caucus Chair Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.) is expected to force action on the censure […]
Rep. Rashida Tlaib called on Secretary of State Antony Blinken to resign in a Thursday social media post, citing a ProPublica story alleging he had rejected internal government findings about Israel blocking aid to Gaza. “[Blinken] lied. People went hungry, and some died. He needs to resign now,” she wrote on X. Tlaib (D-Mich.), a […]
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Many lawmakers left Washington on Wednesday evening after funding the government through Dec. 20, but a bipartisan group of senators is due to meet Thursday morning with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Capitol Hill. The session will include Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Zelenskyy will meet with other top officials […]
Senate Democrats keep talking about Texas and Florida. As they look for alternative paths to keep the majority — with polling growing dismal for them in Montana — more and more Democrats are pointing to the two southern states as possible offensive targets. Polls suggest tight races as incumbent Sens. Rick Scott of Florida and […]