Thursday

04-06-2026 Vol 19

Category: Congress

‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ is dead, acting AG says

The acting Attorney General made the commitment at a congressional hearing.

Mullin refuses to commit to following court orders for DHS

The Homeland Security secretary said he could answer the question "if we didn’t think courts were politicized.”

Schumer shares few details on meeting with Platner

The Maine oysterman was not the Senate minority leader's first choice to challenge Susan Collins.

GOP senators look to Blanche for signals on DOJ fund’s fate

“I think his statements are going to be very definitive,” said Senate Majority Leader John Thune.

DOJ fund is ‘being set aside,’ Johnson says amid GOP confusion

The speaker said the Trump administration is also abandoning efforts to secure ballroom money in the pending party-line immigration bill.

Johnson on Pulte

Speaker Mike Johnson said he is deferring to President Donald Trump on his choice of housing official Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence. “The president has the...

Koch-aligned PAC launches first big Senate ad buy — and includes Montana

The ads come a few weeks after Americans for Prosperity Action warned the GOP’s Senate majority is “at risk.”

Capitol agenda: Trump officials try to calm ‘slush’ fund fury

President Donald Trump may need to explicitly renounce his controversial “Anti-Weaponization Fund” before Republicans move a stalled immigration enforcement bill.

GOP senators keep wary as DOJ tiptoes away from ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’

“It’s pretty clear that the president has to say very explicitly that there’s not going to be a weaponization fund,” Sen. Chuck Grassley said.

NRSC joins Paxton to set up joint fundraising committee

The move comes after the committee spent months attacking the attorney general during his primary against Sen. John Cornyn, which he won last week.