Senators approved a 45-day extension of a key surveillance program by voice vote Thursday, just hours before it is set to lapse. The extension will give Congress until mid-June to work out a deal on a long-term reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which targets foreigners abroad but can sweep in
Susan Collins was the first Republican senator to change a vote on the Iran war.
“Being hated by idiots is the price you pay for not being one of them,” Sen. Thom Tillis wrote on X Thursday.
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) accused Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) of making fun of President Trump, noting that the New York Republican “hated” the president. “He hated Donald Trump, made fun of him constantly, mimicked him, making fun of his voice,” Greene told conservative media personality Tucker Carlson in an interview released Wednesday, in…
The staffer received $6,000 in contributions to his legal expense fund stemming from the incident.
The House acted after weeks of delay to fund most Homeland Security agencies, which have gone unfunded for 76 days.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Thursday that other states should redraw their congressional maps in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling that Louisiana’s addition of a second majority-Black congressional district was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. “The Supreme Court said that in Louisiana’s case, it was blatantly unconstitutional,” Johnson told CNN’s Manu Raju in…