House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) said there were no immediate plans to vote on Russian sanctions, indicating the matter would be postponed until after the August recess. “Not right now,” he told Politico when asked if there were immediate plans. However, he also tacitly approved President Donald Trump circumventing a sanctions bill and acting unilaterally […]

Attorney General Pam Bondi fired the Department of Justice‘s top ethics adviser on Friday as part of broader government layoffs. Joseph Tirrell, the DOJ’s ethics director, posted Bondi’s letter announcing his firing on LinkedIn on Monday. In it, Bondi said he was being terminated from his position effective immediately with no further explanation. Notably, his […]

Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) will be evicted from his Washington, D.C., apartment after failing to pay several months’ rent, records show. Journalist Roger Sollenberger first reported Monday that Mills’s landlord filed papers in court to evict him after alleging he failed to pay $85,000 in rent since March. According to the landlord’s ledger, Mills had […]

Democrats are taking advantage of the war breaking out between Republicans over the files on disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, putting themselves on the same side as President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” base, as they call for the files’ release.  The GOP is fracturing over the Trump administration’s handling of the Epstein case, causing […]