Republicans

CBS News reports: Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri joined Democrats Wednesday to advance legislation that would ban members of Congress from buying, selling or owning individual stocks. “I practice what I preach,” Hawley said in an awkward exchange with fellow Republicans on the panel. “I don’t have individual stocks, I don’t trade in stocks. I’m not a billionaire, unlike …

“They’re a cost, they’re a tax. And it’s something that will elevate the prices of things that you tariff. So if you put a 50% tariff on steel and aluminum, the people who buy steel and aluminum inevitably are going to pay more. I don’t think there’s enough votes to rein in executive authority. It’s funny how when there’s a …

Florida Politics reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to tubthump for a rare mid-decade census and Congressional redistricting, as he maintains Florida should have more seats than it does now. “I had some people in the (Donald Trump) administration tell me they thought Florida would get like three to five more seats if they did it properly. Like, I haven’t seen …

“Last night, I was surprised to see President Trump on Truth Social go after me and Senate Republicans over what we call the ‘blue slip.’ Now, to people in the Real America – not here in Washington, D.C., an island surrounded by reality – the people in Real America don’t care about what the ‘blue slip’ is, but, in fact, …

Politico reports: Texas Republicans would create five House seats that President Donald Trump carried by 10 or more points in November through a redrawn Congressional map to be released Wednesday. Four of the GOP’s pickup opportunities reside in majority-Hispanic districts. The new map — created at Trump’s urging — stands to upend the midterms next year and give Republicans an …

“If you wanna stop violent crime, the way you do it is you support law enforcement. And I gotta say, every time I hear Democrats posturing after there is a mass murder, their immediate answer is not to go after the criminals, not to stop the violent murderers, but instead, to disarm law-abiding citizens. “And the position of today’s Democrat …

NBC News reports: The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday declined a request from Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers to grant her immunity in exchange for testifying to Congress. Maxwell’s lawyers said in a letter Tuesday that Maxwell, an associate of the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, would be willing to testify if she received formal immunity, alongside other requests. But a spokesperson for …

Politico reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene will not run for Georgia governor next year, she said Tuesday, after already ruling out a campaign for the Senate earlier this year. But that’s not to say she doesn’t think she’d win. “If I was running for governor the entire world would know it because I would be all over the state of …

Knoxville’s Fox affiliate reports: Representative Tim Burchett (R-Knoxville) is on the road to recovery after being kicked by a horse. Burchett was accidentally kicked by a horse over the weekend while working on his farm, according to Will Garrett, Burchett’s press secretary. While Burchett suffered a broken rib and some bruising, his office said he hasn’t missed a beat. This is …

Gizmodo reports: Somehow, Elon Musk keeps convincing cities to allow him to dig under them. The latest locale to give The Boring Company the rights to displace dirt directly under their feet is Nashville, Tennessee, which announced an agreement this week to allow Musk’s firm to build a 10-mile “loop” that will connect the city’s airport and convention center—an arrangement …

Politico reports: Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted co-conspirator of the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is asking to postpone her scheduled congressional deposition — and making a series of other demands as conditions of her cooperation with Hill investigators. It comes following a recent vote by a House subcommittee to subpoena Maxwell amid mounting pressure from House Republicans to release materials …

The Washington Post reports: A third whistleblower has come forward to challenge the federal judicial nomination of Emil Bove, sharing evidence with lawmakers suggesting the controversial former attorney for Donald Trump and current top Justice Department official misled lawmakers about his handling of the dismissal of public corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams. The whistleblower — whose existence …

NBC News reports: For years, outlandish theories about the U.S. government’s using airplanes to spray harmful chemicals over U.S. homes or powerful elites controlling the weather were relegated to the fringes of society. Not anymore. Republican lawmakers in nearly 20 state legislatures have proposed such legislation, with governors in Louisiana and Florida having signed bills into law. On the federal …

NOTUS reports: After President Donald Trump said on Monday that children are starving in Gaza, Republican senators started to show some daylight between themselves and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, siding with Trump and acknowledging the starvation. Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of Israel’s closest allies in Congress, blamed Hamas for “it being the way it is,” but acknowledged there was …

The Hill reports: In the immediate hours after at least four people were fatally shot, including an off-duty police officer, after a man carrying a long gun opened fire in Manhattan, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle began taking familiar sides in the gun control debate. On Fox News, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) suggested that gun control laws would …

The Daily Beast reports: Republican Georgia Congressman Mike Collins launched a Senate bid this week, but the campaign kickoff included one cringeworthy misstep: his campaign misspelled Georgia in one of its videos. The Georgia businessman whose family owns a trucking company was first elected to the House to represent the state’s 10th district in 2022. In the post on July …

ERIC BOLLING: “I’d say Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Brennan, Comey, Clapper — send ’em all to Guantanamo Bay. Lock ’em all up.” RON JOHNSON: “It’s been referred and let’s hope they prosecute.” As has been reported here extensively, Johnson falls for and promotes every bit of QAnon batshittery out there, including that COVID vaccines cause AIDS. Here’s …

Austin’s NBC affiliate reports: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton escalated a brewing conflict between Texas and New York’s abortion laws. On Monday, Paxton announced he filed legal action against New York Acting Ulster County Clerk Taylor Bruck for refusing to enforce a $100,000 penalty against Dr. Margaret Carpenter. In February, a Texas district court ruled in favor of the state …

The Hill reports: A House Republican’s bill would strip former President Kennedy’s name from the Washington institution created in the 35th commander in chief’s honor and instead have it known as the “Trump Center for the Performing Arts.” Dubbing the bill the Make Entertainment Great Again (MEGA) Act, Rep. Bob Onder said, “I cannot think of a more ubiquitous symbol …

NBC News reports: Paul Dans, the architect of Project 2025, is launching a Senate bid in South Carolina to oust Lindsey Graham. Dans is set to announce his Republican primary bid with a formal launch Wednesday in Charleston. Graham is a close Trump ally but has for years faced skepticism from his MAGA allies. He is already facing a challenge …