Democrats are arguing and criticizing and buzzing about candidates like Jon Ossoff, James Talarico and Graham Platner. What about Republicans? The Texas Senate primary drew some attention, and angst. Anyone else? Anywhere in the country? Benjamin Domenech, opinion editor of The Daily Wire and the writer of the newsletter The Transom, assessed some of the…
Senate Republicans defeated an effort by Democrats to bar President Trump from establishing a fund that could compensate his political allies, as they kicked off a slog of votes on their immigration crackdown bill that stretched into early Friday. The vote came as the G.O.P. worked to push through their $70 billion bill to fund…
President Trump sent letters to Congress on Friday making the case that a Vietnam-era law requiring him to seek congressional authorization to continue military operations in Iran did not apply because the conflict was in a cease-fire. In the letters — sent to House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana and Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa,…
Janet Mills, the 78-year-old two-term Democratic governor from Maine, did not want to run for Senate. But Senator Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat and minority leader, was dead set on her as his top recruit in a long-shot nationwide strategy for winning control of the Senate next year, long before there was any other…
The White House on Tuesday urged the House to immediately pass a stalled bipartisan spending bill to reopen the Department of Homeland Security, which Republicans have refused to take up since the Senate passed it nearly a month ago. The request, in a memo sent to members of Congress by the White House’s budget office,…
The gunman who sprinted through a security checkpoint on Saturday night at the Washington Hilton believed that the Secret Service was poorly prepared to guard top administration officials against him, according to writing he left behind. Agents, in turn, stopped him in a matter of seconds. The episode raised fresh questions about whether the Secret…
The Senate late Wednesday moved toward adopting a Republican budget blueprint that would pave the way for a $70 billion increase for immigration enforcement and the eventual reopening of the Department of Homeland Security. But first, senators waded through an overnight marathon of rapid-fire votes, known as a vote-a-rama, that put the two parties’ dueling…
