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In Iowa, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) criticizes New York members of Congress who haven’t endorsed Zohran Mamdani’s candidacy for NYC Mayor. “That kind of spineless politics is what people are sick of,” he says. “They need to get behind him, and get behind him now.”

There may be some changes coming to the Trump administration's approach to immigration enforcement. President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post on Thursday that both farmers and "people in the Hotel and Leisure business" have said that his approach to immigration enforcement "is taking very good, long time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace." "In many cases the Criminals allowed into our Country by the VERY Stupid Biden Open Borders Policy are applying for those jobs," Trump added. "This is not good. We must protect our Farmers, but get the CRIMINALS OUT...

In the last two and a half years, eight sitting members of the House or Senate have died in office. Every time, it's been a Democrat. Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, died on Wednesday at 75, after a battle with esophageal cancer. He's the third House Democrat to die in the last three months. If Democrats had gained a narrow 1 or 2-seat majority in 2024, they would have lost it by now.

A bipartisan group of senators released the text of their amendment to a bill that codifies same-sex marriage. The bill easily passed the House in July, but GOP senators wanted further religious protections. They say they're "confident" the changes give the bill the GOP support it needs to pass the chamber. A bipartisan group of senators released the text of their amended version of a bill that codifies same-sex and interracial marriage into federal law on Monday, saying they're "confident" that new changes will give the bill the Republican support needed to surpass 60 votes and pass the chamber. Those...

Jaime Herrera Beutler faces a Trump-backed primary challenger after she voted to impeach him over Jan 6. She says she's "never been in this position" and is used to winning elections by focusing on local issues. She hopes her "independent" approach will "continue to be the thing that's most important to voters." Republican Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington, who voted to impeach President Donald Trump following the January 6 assault on the Capitol, will facing challengers from the right flank of her party in a primary next week. She says it's a relatively new experience for her. "I've never...

As senators gathered in a secure location amid the riot at the Capitol on January 6, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina was apoplectic, even complaining to a Capitol Police officer that the security force "let people breach the Capitol." That's according to reporting included in "This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future," a forthcoming book from the New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns.

Former VP Dick Cheney called Trump "a maniac," per a new book by Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns. The elder Cheney backed his daughter Liz in her vote for Trump's second impeachment, the book said.

Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska has little to say about her state's former governor's nascent bid for Alaska's at-large congressional district. "Why don't you ask an original question?" she quipped to Insider, lamenting that "everybody" is asking her about Sarah Palin's newly-announced campaign to succeed the late Republican Rep. Don Young, who held the seat from 1973 until his death this year, in an upcoming special election.

Former President Donald Trump released a lie-filled statement on Tuesday demanding that Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota apologize for "abandoning her own country." "Congresswoman Ilhan Omar should apologize for marrying her brother, committing large-scale immigration and election fraud, wishing death to Israel, and for essentially abandoning her former country, which doesn't even have a government—Exactly what she'd like to see for the United States," said Trump in his statement.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene - the controversial, far-right Georgia congresswoman who lost her committee assignments earlier this year for endorsing political violence - just wrote a 17-tweet long Twitter thread that outlined several areas of "common ground" between her and the Nation of Islam. "One of the benefits as a Member of Congress is visiting different types government facilities to provide oversight," she wrote on Twitter. "On my recent visit to the DC Jail one of the things I picked up was some religious material." SNIP Greene said that prisoners are offered "religious material," choosing between "Christain [sic] and Islam,"...