Businessman Ryan Binkley withdrew from the GOP runoff in Texas’s newly drawn 32nd Congressional District on Tuesday, ensuring that attorney Jace Yarbrough will be the party’s nominee in November’s general election. Binkley wrote in a statement Tuesday that Yarbrough “ran a disciplined campaign” and said he is “genuinely excited to see what [his former opponent]…
Republicans are grappling with how to handle an expected $200 billion request for supplemental funding for the war in Iran, weighing their desire to support the president with demands from fiscal hawks, questions about the scope of the funding and the challenge of a super-slim majority in the House. Democrats are not expected to support…
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) went after Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) over his tension with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), which was prominently on display during a hearing Wednesday on his possible new role as Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary. “There’s a difference between right and wrong. Every one knows this is wrong and few have…
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that Democrats are lining up en masse against helping Republicans advance legislation to a final vote to extend the government’s warrantless surveillance powers. Jeffries acknowledged that the vote on the bill itself will divide Democrats, and he declined to say how he will vote himself. “But what…
The House on Thursday passed a bill that would make foreign nationals and noncitizens inadmissible to the U.S. and subject to deportation if they are convicted of, or admit to, harming animals used in law enforcement. The legislation, dubbed the Bill to Outlaw Wounding of Official Working Animals (BOWOW) Act, passed the lower chamber by…
House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) on Thursday called the moment when Democrats walked out of a closed-door meeting with Attorney General Pam Bondi a “low point” in the committee’s investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “The way the Democrats behaved was clearly a premeditated stunt to go out with their fake outrage,”…
House Democrats will soon launch another effort to end President Trump’s war with Iran, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) announced on Thursday. “What we’re focused on now is stopping this reckless war of choice,” Jeffries told reporters in the Capitol. Democrats have already brought one war powers resolution to the floor this month. Sponsored…