EXCLUSIVE — Sen. Ted Budd (R-NC) will run for a second term in the Senate in 2028, an early announcement that spares Republicans an open seat in purple North Carolina. “That’s the plan. Absolutely, I’m in,” Budd, 55, told the Washington Examiner at the Capitol on Tuesday. “This is an awesome state. It’s an honor […]

House Democratic Caucus Chairman Pete Aguilar (D-CA) said on Tuesday that White House border czar Tom Homan is “at the very top” of the list of targets for the incoming Democratic-controlled House oversight committee. “Tom Homan is at the very top of the list, I think, from the perspective of the oversight committee, wanting to […]

The White House withdrew President Donald Trump’s nomination of U.S. District Judge Lee Rudofsky to the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday after Sens. John Boozman (R-AR) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) opposed his elevation. Trump will instead nominate their preferred candidate, Arkansas Supreme Court Associate Justice Cody Hiland. The swap came a day […]

Senate Republicans are confronting a grim reality: they’re likely to be out of power until at least the 2030 elections. The “bluenami” performance from Democrats, coupled with a challenging Senate map for Republicans in 2028, presents the very real possibility the GOP may not control the upper chamber again until 2031 or beyond, a bitter […]