Johnson ‘100 percent’ convinced GOP will win both chambers of Congress, White House
Home Speaker Mike Johnson instructed different Republicans on Friday that he's “100%” satisfied the GOP will win each chambers of Congress and the White Home regardless of tight polling, privately sharing the get together’s newest seat-by-seat predictions with two months earlier than Election Day. Johnson spoke on a Home GOP convention name throughout which former President Donald Trump’s marketing campaign aides additionally briefed members on the state of the race,…
Vulnerable Republicans worry Johnson’s spending plan increases shutdown risk
Among the Home GOP’s most susceptible members instructed Speaker Mike Johnson in a personal GOP name on Wednesday that they’re frightened his spending technique heightens the chance of an electorally damaging authorities shutdown. Throughout a personal, 30-minute name with GOP lawmakers Wednesday, Johnson laid out his plan to rapidly move a spending invoice that will punt the present Oct. 1 shutdown deadline into March. He’s additionally going to connect laws…
Threaten Iran to stop Hamas, Lindsey Graham says
Sen. Lindsey Graham mentioned Sunday that one of the simplest ways to cease Hamas from killing extra Israelis was to meaningfully threaten Iran. Talking on ABC's "This Week," the South Carolina Republican was responding to information that six Israeli hostages had been discovered lifeless in Gaza, together with Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, whose mother and father had spoken on the Democratic Nationwide Conference in August. "If you'd like the hostages dwelling,"…
Anguish, frustration follow slaying of 6 hostages in Gaza
American leaders expressed their frustration and anger Sunday morning after Hamas murdered six Israeli hostages, together with Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin. “I'm simply completely heartbroken for Hersh's household, for the households of those different hostages that have been butchered by these Hamas terrorists,” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif) stated on CNN's "State of the Union," noting Goldberg-Polin was from California. “I hope and pray, I feel as all of us do, that…
2 Republican senators split on Trump's IVF proposal
Former President Donald Trump’s proposal to have authorities or insurance coverage corporations cowl IVF was an unprecedented shift final week — and Republicans are break up on whether or not to help it. Two distinguished Republican senators — each robust supporters of Trump — took completely different approaches to the difficulty of in vitro fertilization on Sunday morning, highlighting the break up within the get together over whether or not…
New Jersey Democrats once again flex their power in choosing Pascrell replacement
The late Rep. Invoice Pascrell (D-N.J.) had not but been buried earlier than his inheritor obvious turned, properly, obvious. Within the days after the fiery 87-year-old congressmember’s loss of life, 4 seasoned elected officers opted to run in an ultra-abbreviated contest to exchange him because the ninth Congressional District’s Democratic nominee this November. Then the three Democratic chairs of the counties that make up the North Jersey district settled on…
House GOP braces for preelection spending drama
Most Home Republicans are anxious {that a} high-profile spending combat in September would set them up for failure simply weeks earlier than an election. Conservatives wish to pressure one anyway. Congress must cross a funding invoice earlier than Oct. 1 to keep away from a authorities shutdown, a prospect that has induced battle up to now yr however ought to have been pretty easy this time. That’s as a result…
‘He’s got to pay a price’: Unaired footage reveals Nancy Pelosi’s Jan. 6 fury
Nancy Pelosi spent the period of the Jan. 6 Capitol assault targeted on guaranteeing Joe Biden could be licensed president as quickly as potential. Then she turned her consideration to Donald Trump. “I simply really feel sick about what he did to the Capitol and the nation right now,” Pelosi mentioned as she slumped, visibly exhausted, at the back of her SUV within the pre-dawn hours of Jan. 7. “He’s…
Zuckerberg says he regrets caving to White House pressure on content
Mark Zuckerberg says he regrets that Meta bowed to Biden administration strain to censor content material, saying in a letter that the interference was "incorrect" and he plans to push again if it occurs once more. Meta's CEO aired his grievances in a letter Monday to the Home Judiciary Committee in response to its investigation into content material moderation on on-line platforms. Zuckerberg detailed how senior administration officers leaned on…
George Santos pleads guilty, acknowledging lies and blaming ambition for conning his way to Congress
George Santos, who spun lies about his life into an 11-month stint in Congress, pleaded responsible Monday to wire fraud and aggravated identification theft in a case that led to his expulsion from workplace and the admission that he’d allowed ambition to cloud his judgment. The previous consultant, 36, is more likely to spend at the very least six years in jail and owes greater than $370,000 in restitution. His…
