Dysfunctional Government
Mayorkas slams Texas Gov. Abbott for saying Biden should use executive authority on border
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas pushed back Sunday on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s recent remarks that President Joe Biden should use more executive authority to take action on the southern border. “He couldn’t
House Dem: Speaker needs to deliver ‘inevitable’ to ‘flammable right wing’ on government funding
Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) said Sunday that the “flammable right wing” of the GOP won’t get what it wants in government funding negotiations this week as another government shutdown deadline looms, tasking Speaker
Ukraine’s troops are rationing ammunition. Yet House Republicans plan to take weeks to mull more aid
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukrainian drones fly without ammunition. Russian artillery unleash deadly volleys from safe positions beyond the range of Kyiv’s troops. Shortages of ammo and supplies are resulting in lost ground to
Trump calls GOP candidate with a history of offensive remarks ‘Martin Luther King on steroids’
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Former President Donald Trump likened North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson to Martin Luther King Jr. in an endorsement Saturday, despite the gubernatorial candidate’s long history of controversial comments about
Elizabeth Warren’s GOP Challenger Has a History of Incredibly Blunt Anti-Trump Tweets
John Deaton, the Republican cryptocurrency booster who just launched a longshot 2024 challenge against Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), has a resume loaded with potential campaign-killers. Deaton has been public about dealing drugs as
Manchin: Failed border bill factored into decision not to run for White House
While Manchin said he agreed President Biden has been “wrong on the border,” the collapse of the bill revealed something else to him. “I always believed that we could … legislate through a
Republicans Delete Reference To FBI Informant From Impeachment Interview Request Letter
On Tuesday, House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) included the paragraph about the informant in an interview request letter to former State Department official
“Humiliation”: Fox host buries GOP as Republican admits “we were warned” about indicted informant
Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., claimed that top Republicans were warned about the debunked Biden claims from a former FBI informant before he was indicted for making up allegations that the Bidens took bribes.
James Comer and Tucker Carlson aren’t fooled by Russian lies — they’re complicit
Last week, the “whistleblower” that House Republicans were counting on to justify a long-planned impeachment of Joe Biden was arrested for lying to the FBI. In a twist that should surprise exactly no
Nikki Haley suggests Trump is aiming to ‘take’ the election by promoting his daughter-in-law for RNC leadership
“Now he has decided he has fired the RNC chair,” Haley said at an event Tuesday morning in her hometown of Bamberg, South Carolina, referring to Trump’s endorsement of a successor to Ronna
Race to succeed George Santos in Congress reaches stormy climax in New York’s suburbs
Former U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi, a Democrat, faces off with Republican Mazi Pilip, a county lawmaker, in a race for a House seat that became vacant when George Santos was expelled from Congress.
Cornyn clashes with Ken Paxton over support for foreign aid bill
“Unbelievable that @JohnCornyn would stay up all night to defend other countries borders, but not America,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton posted on X Tuesday morning. Hours later, Cornyn, a Republican foreign policy
‘Appalled’: Reagan’s Daughter Says Dad Would Want Nothing To Do With Today’s GOP
Patti Davis, daughter of former President Ronald Reagan, said he doesn’t think her father would be embraced by today’s Republican Party ― and that the feeling would be mutual. “I don’t think he
House Republicans’ narrow majority could get even smaller if Democrats flip Santos’ old seat on Tuesday
The special election to replace ousted Congressman George Santos has become an expensive slugfest for both parties. Polling shows former Congressman Tom Suozzi, who left Congress for a failed gubernatorial run, only narrowly
Sen. Chris Murphy, who helped broker the failed border security package, says it’s ‘worrying’ that Mitch McConnell couldn’t deliver more votes: ‘No one is in charge over there’
Murphy, who spent months working with GOP Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma and Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona to design immigration legislation that could pass in the narrowly-divided Senate, told Politico Magazine
Ohio GOP Senate candidate endorsed by Trump deleted tweets critical of the former president
Bernie Moreno, a Republican businessman running for the US Senate in Ohio, once said there was “no scenario” in which he would support Donald Trump. He’s called Trump a “fake Republican” who stokes
Crenshaw hits GOP colleagues opposed to border deal: ‘The height of stupidity’
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) swiped at his Republican colleagues for opposing a deal being crafted in the Senate that pairs border and migration policy changes with Ukraine aid before the text of the
Sean Hannity Lists ‘Lies’ About Republicans To Woo Taylor Swift To GOP — It Backfires
Sean Hannity on Tuesday tried to lure Taylor Swift to the Republican side by listing what he said were “lies” about the GOP. But it didn’t go well at all. … But Hannity
Rep. McGovern (D-MA) to GOP colleagues: “Please stop making things up, and stop claiming the border is open. It is not.”
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) criticized Republicans’ comments on the border in response to remarks by Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) on the House floor as the chamber debated the rules for immigration policy bills
Arizona Republican Proposes Bill That Would Allow Politicians To Overturn Elections
Arizona state Sen. Anthony Kern (R), a “fake elector” for Donald Trump in 2020 who was also photographed on Capitol grounds during the Jan. 6 attack, has filed a longshot proposal to allow
House Republicans cry James Comer’s “clueless investigation” is a “disaster”: report
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., is losing support among his GOP colleagues over his handling of the Biden impeachment probe, with some declaring the inquiry chocks up to a “clueless investigation”
Republicans Who Screamed About A Crisis On The Border Now Oppose A Plan To Fix It
WASHINGTON ― For months, Republicans have shouted from the rooftops about a migrant crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border and how President Joe Biden needs to act to address it, insisting the flow of