Rep. Nick LaLota (R-NY) said he was “not happy” about President Donald Trump’s decision to grant clemency to former Republican New York Rep. George Santos on Friday. LaLota was one of several congressional Republicans who first demanded Santos’s resignation in 2023. Santos pleaded guilty in August 2024 to several felony charges, including wire fraud and […]

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) on Monday became the latest Republican to flirt with invoking the “nuclear option” to end the gridlock in the Senate that has catapulted the government into one of the longest shutdowns in history. Congressional Republican leaders have thus far steadfastly opposed applying the rarely used legislative maneuver as a workaround to […]

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee outraised the National Republican Congressional Committee in the third quarter by a little over $2 million after the GOP’s record-shattering off-year September. The DCCC raised $26.2 million in the third quarter, with $11.5 million coming from September, leaving the committee with a $46 million war chest. “While House Republicans refuse […]

President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese demonstrated a united front against China in the Indo-Pacific as the United States and Australia recommitted to their nuclear submarine deal with the United Kingdom and signed a new one regarding critical minerals. Trump and Albanese, whose previous meeting with Trump on the sidelines of the […]