Poised to face tough questioning from Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats about President Donald Trump’s weaponization of the Justice Department against perceived enemies, Attorney General Pam Bondi has brought a retort: Trump’s economic adviser Peter Navarro. Bondi is testifying Tuesday at the panel’s annual oversight hearing of the DOJ, with Navarro in attendance in the Capitol … Read more
Sen. Josh Hawley falsely claimed Tuesday that newly disclosed records revealed that the FBI “tapped” the phones of eight sitting U.S. senators during special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation of President Donald Trump’s bid to subvert the 2020 election. Hawley was describing an FBI document, publicly released Monday by Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley, that referenced … Read more
Speaker Mike Johnson sought to play down fiery criticism of his leadership from GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in comments to reporters Tuesday, after she accused top Republicans of having no plan to address the pending expiration of federal health insurance subsidies. “Not a single Republican in leadership talked to us about this or has … Read more
Attorney General Pam Bondi didn’t wait for Senate Democrats to ask their own pointed questions before she went on the attack Tuesday while testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee. “You voted to shut the government down,” Bondi said in response to a question from Sen. Dick Durbin about the legal basis for sending National Guard … Read more
President Donald Trump and Democrats spent Monday afternoon giving reporters conflicting messages about whether they were talking to each other about the health care impasse at the center of the shutdown. Long story short: They’re not. But Trump’s suggestion that he was speaking with Democrats about their health care demands raised the possibility that an … Read more
President Donald Trump said Monday he’s on the verge of enacting mass firings of federal workers. But Democrats say it won’t make them budge in the increasingly rancorous shutdown standoff. The mass layoffs, dreamed up by White House budget director Russ Vought, would be the most significant pressure point yet as the shutdown enters a … Read more
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made phasing out animal testing a part of his Make America Healthy Again plan. Source link
Buckle in — this shutdown might last a while. With federal agencies closed going into a second workweek, there are vanishingly few signs that a bipartisan breakthrough is imminent. To the contrary, all indications are that leaders in both parties are only digging in deeper, and efforts to forge a compromise among the Senate rank-and-file … Read more
Buckle up for the second week of a shutdown staredown, as the Senate tries again to pass a funding stopgap Monday evening. All sides are showing little sign of budging. Democrats are refusing to open the government without an agreement on extending Affordable Care Act subsidies, and they’re digging in despite the Trump administration’s threat of … Read more
