House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) did not confirm whether he has the votes locked up to become the lower chamber’s next speaker, as a handful of new progressive members potentially try to extract concessions from Jeffries in exchange for support. “We have a vote next Wednesday,” Jeffries told reporters Monday afternoon. “I’m going to […]
House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) is urging his Republican colleagues to delay anointing a new leader as the party comes to terms with losing the majority in the 2026 midterm elections. Smith said that an internal GOP caucus vote scheduled for Tuesday to replace Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) should be shelved until […]
Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) said he was still deciding his vote on impeaching War Secretary Pete Hegseth, noting that he has some areas of disagreement on the articles introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) on Monday. Bacon, who has been a sharp critic of Hegseth’s leadership of the Department of War, said the articles brought […]
Mississippi Democratic Senate candidate Scott Colom is pointing fingers at election forecasters such as the Cook Political Report, saying they “made it much more difficult” for Southern Democrats to fundraise this election cycle. “At some point, we have to talk about @CookPolitical and other ‘prognosticators’ who had me and other southern candidates labeled as solid […]
A Utah judge ruled on Monday that Tyler Robinson will go to trial in 2028 on murder charges related to the September 2025 killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Judge Tony Graf set the trial date during a hearing in a Provo, Utah, courtroom, more than two months after he ruled that the prosecution had […]
President Donald Trump and Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al Thani met behind closed doors on Monday afternoon, but no deal to end the Iran war emerged. The Trump administration is facing renewed pressure to end the war after Democrats routed the Republican Party during the midterm elections to recapture the House and […]
The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a key win on its emergency docket on Monday by lifting a lower court’s block on border wall construction in the Big Bend region of Texas. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, had blocked three waivers issued by the Department of […]
The fresh faces of the 120th Congress arrived on Capitol Hill on Monday for Senate freshman orientation following Democrats’ takeover of the upper chamber in last week’s midterm elections. Among the incoming senators is Sen.-elect Adam Hamilton (D-KS), the megachurch pastor who flipped a Senate seat in a state that had not elected a Democrat […]
EXCLUSIVE — Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) plans to walk out of the room if Republicans move forward with Senate leadership elections on Tuesday, calling it “obnoxious” that a vote is being held so quickly after their midterm wipeout. “If you hold the election, I’ll leave the room,” Johnson told the Washington Examiner in a Monday […]
President Donald Trump’s eldest son celebrated GOP strategist Karl Rove’s condemnation of Vice President JD Vance on Monday, arguing that it means his friend “is doing something right.” Donald Trump Jr., who is active in political circles, weighed in after Rove told attendees at the Jewish Federations of North America’s General Assembly that Vance should […]
