Category: Congress
June 02, 2026
Congress
‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ is dead, acting AG says
The acting Attorney General made the commitment at a congressional hearing.
June 02, 2026
Congress
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.”
June 02, 2026
Congress
Schumer shares few details on meeting with Platner
The Maine oysterman was not the Senate minority leader's first choice to challenge Susan Collins.
June 02, 2026
Congress
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.
June 02, 2026
Congress
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.
June 02, 2026
Congress
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...
June 02, 2026
Congress
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.”
June 02, 2026
Congress
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.
June 02, 2026
Congress
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.
June 01, 2026
Congress
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.