Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche appeared to make progress with key Republican skeptics on Wednesday, putting President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Justice Department on a smoother path toward confirmation before the August recess. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said after the confirmation hearing that Sens. Thom Tillis (R-NC) and John Cornyn […]

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) found himself in the minority opinion of his party on a vote to cut off U.S. aid to Israel, with a majority of Democrats backing the failed proposal. The proposal, offered by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), would have struck $3 billion of foreign aid to Israel in the annual […]

Thousands of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are caught in a disagreement between President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin over ICE’s ability to conduct traffic stops, all while sentiment about the president’s second DHS boss turns negative among some of the president’s closest supporters. In the wake of two ICE-involved fatal […]

Maine Democrats are racing to reunify a fractured party after Graham Platner‘s abrupt withdrawal from the Senate race, with eight candidates competing to inherit the progressive coalition he built while navigating an unusually compressed nominating process that will determine who takes on Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) this fall. What would normally unfold over several months […]