House Republicans are playing the Trump card in committee chair races
Republican lawmakers jockeying to steer Home committees within the subsequent Congress are touting their loyalty to President-elect Donald Trump as a lot as their capacity to advance coverage priorities as they make appeals to colleagues over the subsequent two weeks. With scores of members competing for just a few key positions, contenders consider that success may hinge on their capacity to point out simply how well-positioned they're to drive Trump's…
Matt Gaetz feels the heat
President-elect Donald Trump is useless critical about making him lawyer common. Speaker Mike Johnson is pledging to bury a essential Home Ethics Committee report into his alleged private misconduct. However anticipate this to be a really uncomfortable week for former Rep. Matt Gaetz all the identical. There's new strain to publicize particulars from investigations centering on allegations of underage intercourse and drug use by the Florida Republican as a doubtlessly…
Thune faces first Trump loyalty test
A collection of controversial Cupboard picks have turn out to be an early take a look at for the way Senate leader-in-waiting John Thune will steadiness proving his loyalty to Donald Trump with the pursuits of his wide-ranging convention. Up to now, he appears to be giving the president-elect huge deference. Trump hasn’t completed his choices but, however three picks for among the most influential roles within the Cupboard are…
GOP senators brush off concerns about Thune’s relationship with Trump
John Thune triumphed in his marketing campaign for GOP chief by laser-focusing on two issues: Republican senators and mending his relationship with Donald Trump. He spent the previous couple of months donating closely to colleagues and becoming a member of them on their campaigns. He spoke continuously with Trump immediately, together with after the final election final week. And he ignored a conservative and MAGA-world stress marketing campaign to elect…
Gaetz resigns from Congress — possibly skirting long-awaited Ethics report
GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz resigned from the Home Wednesday, Speaker Mike Johnson introduced, the identical day that Donald Trump introduced that he had tapped the Florida firebrand to be his lawyer common. “He issued his resignation letter efficient instantly from Congress. That caught us unexpectedly a bit bit,” Johnson instructed reporters throughout a press convention on Wednesday night time. Dozens of GOP lawmakers indicated that management had instructed them about…
GOP holds onto House majority — clinching the trifecta
Republicans have achieved the federal government trifecta — conserving management of the Home in addition to successful the Senate and the presidency. Will probably be the primary time Republicans have had full management of Congress and the White Home since 2018. Home Republicans have been quietly getting ready their legislative agenda on tax cuts and different priorities for months, although an anticipated slender majority will probably complicate these efforts, in…
'Reckless pick': Lawmakers express doubts that Gaetz can get confirmed as attorney general
Some Republicans on Capitol Hill recoiled from Donald Trump's announcement that he was nominating Rep. Matt Gaetz for legal professional common, with two GOP senators brazenly voicing issues and a number of the president-elect's loyal allies panning the decide. Swing-vote GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) mentioned she doesn’t “assume it’s a severe nomination for the legal professional common.” One other, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), informed reporters she was “shocked” by…
Democrat Dave Min keeps Katie Porter’s House seat blue
Republican Scott Baugh has conceded to Democratic state legislator Dave Min in a heated race to succeed California Rep. Katie Porter, making certain the toss-up Orange County district stays within the Democratic column. "I used to be trying ahead to working with Democrats, Republicans and @therealdonaldtrump to unravel severe issues like an open border, rising crime, and runaway federal spending," Baugh stated in an announcement Tuesday evening, "however the voters…
Republicans won big in the Senate. A warning lurks in the purple states.
Republicans celebrated as they took a decisive Senate majority final week: They’d lastly discovered the best way to get previous the candidate high quality points that had tanked them for 2 cycles. However they nonetheless have a purple-state drawback. At the same time as President-elect Donald Trump swept each swing state, 4 of these battlegrounds are sending Democrats to the Senate. That’s the best variety of Senate-presidential ticket splits in…
Democrat George Whitesides ousts GOP Rep. Mike Garcia from Los Angeles House seat
George Whitesides has defeated three-term GOP Rep. Mike Garcia, flipping a long-coveted Los Angeles space Home seat to the Democrats’ column. Garcia — who conceded the race Monday — was a prime goal for a number of cycles, given the Democrats’ 10-point registration benefit within the district and his conservative votes within the Home. However he had confirmed surprisingly sturdy within the blue-leaning seat, leaning on his fighter-jet pilot previous…
