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Mediaite reports: Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (R-MY) was asked on Tuesday to weigh in on former President Donald Trump saying immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of our country – a remark that apparently hit close to home for the Kentucky Republican. “Are you comfortable with your party’s leading presidential candidate referring to immigrants as people who are poisoning the …

“I haven’t really been paying that much attention to it. They have to prove that President Biden somehow financially benefited from the business enterprises of Hunter Biden. If there were a smoking gun, I think we’d be talking about it. But you know, the narrative that Hunter Biden presented is falling apart. They added that Joe Biden knew nothing about …

The Hill reports: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) accused the far-left of believing that America’s existence is “fundamentally illegitimate” during an interview with Fox News. Cruz said politicians like Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), along with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and the “radical open borders crowd,” are driving Democrats’ agenda and believe that it’s wrong to have a …

Christopher Kane reports at the Washington Blade: A gay staffer for U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) is no longer employed by the U.S. Senate, his office told the Washington Blade in a statement on Saturday morning, which followed reports that he had filmed amateur pornography in the workplace. “We will have no further comment on this personnel matter,” Cardin’s office …

The Messenger reports: Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin suggested that President Joe Biden may not qualify for impeachment in the House GOP investigation because if he did commit a crime, he isn’t holding that same office anymore or wasn’t even in office at the time. “The bar is real high. There’s not question about it,” Mullin said in an interview …

Axios reports: Former President Trump is mostly keeping his distance from key Senate races in GOP primaries. But privately, Trump’s team is working closely with the Republican Senate campaign group, which is trying to avoid fielding extreme, scandal-plagued candidates in 2024. It’s a strategy shift for Trump and the National Republican Senatorial Committee from last year, when several far-right, Trump-backed …

The New York Times reports: The Senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed an $886 billion defense bill that would set Pentagon policy and provide a 5.2 percent pay raise for military personnel, defying the demands of Republicans who failed to attach a raft of deeply partisan restrictions on abortion, transgender care and diversity initiatives. The vote was 87 to 13 to …

“I’m going to take the same position I’ve taken since I came. That all I can say is there’s some indication of maybe some compromise with China particularly, but I have no evidence of it. I’m going to just follow the facts where they are. And the facts haven’t taken me to that point where I can say that the …

The Hill reports: Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) endorsed former President Trump for the GOP nomination for president on Tuesday, adding to his growing list of congressional endorsements. Hawley told Politico in an interview that he will back the GOP front-runner and has expected for more than a year that Trump would win the Republican nomination. The Missouri senator’s backing comes …

Mediaite has the transcript: KAITLIN COLLINS: They certainly did, Senator. I mean there were multiple slates of fake electors, including in your home state. They’re acknowledging that they were playing a role in trying to improperly overturn the election. That’s what they said. RON JOHNSON: They got themselves out of a nuisance lawsuit. They agreed to get– to settle a …

Fox News reports: Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., announced Monday his endorsement of Republican Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake, a conservative firebrand and former 2022 gubernatorial candidate, in her bid to flip the seat currently held by independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, a former Democrat. “Kari Lake is the fighter Arizona needs. Joe Biden’s policies have been a disaster for Arizona and …

The Hill reports: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Sunday that the United States approving additional aid to Israel is “irresponsible,” pointing to the thousands of civilians killed in Gaza amid Israel’s war against militant group Hamas. “Israel is losing the war in terms of how the world is looking at this situation,” Sanders said on CBS’s Face the Nation. “And …

Via press release from GOP Sen. Kevin Cramer: Earlier this evening, our 42-year-old son Ian was involved in a police chase which resulted in an accident that killed an officer. Ian suffers from serious mental disorders which manifest in severe paranoia and hallucinations. Kris [Cramer’s wife] was with Ian when he insisted on going to his brother Ike. Ike died …

The New York Times reports: Republicans on Wednesday blocked an emergency spending bill to fund the war in Ukraine, demanding strict new border restrictions in exchange and severely jeopardizing President Biden’s push to replenish the war chests of American allies before the end of the year. The failed vote highlighted waning support in the United States for continuing to fund …

“You know, it’s funny. Donald Trump says so many absurd things that I don’t even know how you respond to them. So I sort of laugh and think he’s trying to entertain his base. It’s a dangerous course to go down, of course, but that’s what he does on a regular basis. And I sort of laugh at what he’s …

CNN reports: A classified briefing Tuesday on Ukraine devolved into a shouting match about border security as senators described a tense meeting that did little to break the Senate’s stalemate over whether to include tighter immigration policies in the aid package. Chuck Schumer gave his description of what unfolded and said the fight over the border erupted when Mitch McConnell …

NBC News reports: The Senate confirmed more than 400 military nominees Tuesday afternoon after Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., announced he would drop the bulk of his holds, ending a monthslong campaign. “I’m releasing everybody. I still got a hold on, I think, 11 four-star generals. Everybody else is completely released from me.” Tuberville told reporters. “But other than that, it’s …

NPR reports: Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala, says he will drop his holds on most military promotions. He has been blocking military promotions for months over his objections to an unrelated pentagon policy that pays for service members travel to seek abortion care. Tuberville told reporters in the Capitol on Tuesday that he will drop the hold on all promotions except …

Florida Politics reports: U.S. Sen. Rick Scott followed up his scathing criticism of the decision to exclude Florida State University (FSU) from this year’s College Football Playoff with an official letter demanding the selection committee hand over detailed information that led to the decision. Scott asked the College Football Playoff committee to release votes and rankings, as well as any …

USA Today reports: Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., used the Heimlich maneuver to save fellow Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa from choking at a Senate luncheon on Thursday. Ernst’s office told the Des Moines Register, part of the USA TODAY Network, that Ernst was “doing well.” Paul, a medical doctor and an ophthalmologist, was quickly lauded by his Republican colleagues, …