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WH agrees to strip DHS bill as shutdown looms
Plus: Amy Klobuchar launches her bid for Minnesota governor, a preview of the TX-18 runoff, and Elizabeth Warren warns OpenAI’s CEO is “privatizing…
Jan 29 • Michael Jones
Schumer’s ICE strategy comes into focus
Plus: Trump promotes child investment accounts, Durbin receives Head Start award, state legislatures introduce 198 anti-abortion bills this month alone.
Jan 28 • Michael Jones
Trump backs Noem as House Democrats escalate impeachment threat
Plus: Eleanor Holmes Norton calls it quits, Alexander Vindman launches Senate bid and leading media watchdog judges Grok unsafe for teens.
Jan 28 • Michael Jones
Schumer starts shutdown blame game
Plus: Trump searches for Minnesota off-ramp, Suozzi regrets DHS funding vote and House Dems hold immigration enforcement field hearing in New Orleans.
Jan 26 • Michael Jones
Senate Democrats gear up for an ICE shutdown fight
Plus: The congressional Republicans’ response to the Alex Pretti and the House gets its payback for the Senate’s Arctic Frost gambit.
Jan 25 • Michael Jones
House clears final funding bills after GOP peels off DHS
Plus: House GOP leaders block Venezuelan war powers resolution, House repeals Senate Arctic Frost provision and voters view Trump 2.0’s first year a…
Jan 22 • Michael Jones
“It’s that simple”: What House Democrats spoke about behind closed doors on the DHS funding bill
Plus: Dems launch new effort ban stock trading, the Minnesota Senate race gets a new Republican candidate and Trump says he won’t use military force to…
Jan 21 • Michael Jones
Jayapal returns from Minnesota with stark warning on ICE
Plus: Hill leaders release final funding package, Maryland to move on redistricting and House Oversight Democrats unveil reporting alleging crypto…
Jan 21 • Michael Jones
House Republicans push anti-abortion bills as floor math tightens
Plus: Congress enters crunch time ahead of next funding deadline, Paris Hilton returns to the Hill and the House Oversight Committee will vote to hold…
Jan 19 • Michael Jones
Ex-Division I athlete presses fellow lawmakers to rethink college sports rules
Plus: Senate passes three more funding bills, Trump rolls out health care plan on last day of ACA open enrollment and Schumer unveils Democratic housing…
Jan 15 • Michael Jones
Democrats say GOP stock trading bill doesn’t actually ban trading
House Republicans advanced a stock-trading proposal that their colleagues across the aisle warn doesn’t go far enough to restore public trust.
Jan 14 • Michael Jones
AOC eyes House path as Senate clears deepfake bill
Plus: Inflation remained flat to close 2025, Pressley and Markey push to end qualified immunity and the DNC launches a new voter registration push.
Jan 14 • Michael Jones
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