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The Hill reports: Republicans on Tuesday blocked a bill that would have created a right to access IVF treatments and mandated that insurance plans cover the practice, deriding the vote as a political ploy. Senators voted against advancing the bill, 51-44, marking the second time Democrats have sought to put Republicans on the record on the contentious issue. Sixty votes …

“Don’t lecture Donald Trump about softening his rhetoric after two people tried to kill him — it’s ridiculous! “Tell Kamala Harris, tell Joe Biden, tell all of her surrogates who are saying things like ‘Donald Trump needs to be eliminated,’ they need to cut that crap out or they’re going to get somebody hurt. “In fact, they already did get …

The Huffington Post reports: Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) on Tuesday baselessly accused an Arab American witness of supporting terrorists during a Senate hearing, and as she called out his blatant Islamophobia, the GOP senator told her to “hide her head in a bag.” Kennedy lashed out at Maya Berry, executive director of the Arab American Institute, a nonpartisan national civil …

Axios reports: Senate Republicans have quietly reversed course on trying to rebuke or embarrass the Biden White House, concerned it could help Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) stay in power. House and Senate GOP leaders had been pitting Democrats against Biden with Congressional Review Act votes, which allows Congress to overturn federal government rules and regulations. Sen. James Lankford …

“Listening to Keith Boykin frankly is listening to the hysteria from the Democrat Party and the radical left. Kamala Harris is losing Black voters because they destroyed the economy. “She’s losing Hispanic voters because she destroyed the border. And quite frankly, she’s losing Jewish voters and a lot of other ethnicities because of the terrible foreign policy. They want to …

Politico Playbook reports: Democrats have spent much of the 2024 campaign reminding Americans of what happened on Jan. 6, 2021. But on Capitol Hill, some are already getting worried about Jan. 6, 2025. They are hoping that Harris will win in November and they’ll flip the House, too — meaning it would likely be Hakeem Jeffries holding the speaker’s gavel …

The Huffington Post reports: Critics are calling out Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) for demanding that “the left” tone down its rhetoric while taking little responsibility for the inflammatory comments from both himself and his running mate, Donald Trump. Speaking after another attempt on Trump’s life, Vance called for a “reduction in the ridiculous and inflammatory political rhetoric.” “We cannot tell …

Raw Story reports: Republican Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost grew testy on Monday when CNN host Brianna Keilar fact-checked him for promoting false claims about Haitian immigrants. During an interview about bomb threats that have been leveled against schools in Springfield, Ohio in the wake of Trump’s attacks on the community there, Keilar asked Yost about his own role in …

Media Matters has the transcript: REP. DAN MEUSER (R-PA): Fortunately we now have a whistleblower, and I’m going to tell you something, Maria, we’re going to do what we can to bring ABC in and have them answer some questions and as well as have this whistleblower and see what’s going on as they’re trying to tear down the First …

“This rhetoric against President Trump, this narrative that he will be the next dictator, that he is the next Hitler coming, it has got to stop. Enough is enough. And when you have this narrative coming from the left, from [the] media, from elected officials, even, that Trump has to be stopped by any means necessary, it shouldn’t surprise anyone …

The Hill reports: All eyes are on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) this week as lawmakers await his next move in the fight over government funding, after Republican resistance foiled his initial strategy for avoiding an end-of-the-month shutdown. Johnson — amid opposition from multiple corners of the GOP conference — scrapped plans last week to vote on a partisan funding plan, …

“He fell hook, line, and sinker for every piece of anti-MAGA propaganda the media and the left have been spewing. Thankfully they captured this man alive. I’m curious to hear more about what he’s all about. “But it looks like he’s been very much a Trump Derangement Syndrome patient for a long time. You know, from what we know based …

The Louisiana Illuminator reports: U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson and his wife were at former President Donald Trump’s home in Florida when the Republican presidential nominee was targeted a few miles away in an apparent assassination attempt Sunday afternoon, according to a post from Johnson on X. Trump was playing golf at his course near Mar-a-Lago when U.S. Secret Service …

Axios reports: Florida will be “conducting its own investigation regarding the attempted assassination” of former President Trump at the Republican presidential nominee’s golf club in West Palm Beach, state Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Sunday. The FBI is investigating what it says “appears to be an attempted assassination” of Trump after his campaign said gunshots were fired in his vicinity on …

“The Haitians who are in Springfield are legal. They came to Springfield to work. Ohio is on the move, and Springfield has really made a great resurgence with a lot of companies coming in. These Haitians came in to work for these companies. What the companies tell us is that they are very good workers. They’re very happy to have …

Newsweek reports: In a Sunday morning interview on CNN’s State of the Union, Ohio Senator JD Vance, Donald Trump’s vice-presidential pick, was confronted about putting his constituents “at risk” due to his claims about Haitian immigrants eating pets. In a contentious, 17-minute interview on the topic, host Dana Bash pressed Vance about those claims, along with Trump’s mention about the …

The Hill reports: Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), the GOP vice-presidential nominee, declined to say on Sunday whether former President Trump, if elected, would veto a federal abortion ban, saying, “I’ve learned my lesson” after answering a similar question last week. “Kristen, I think that I’ve learned my lesson on speaking for the president before he and I have actually talked …

The Ohio Capital Journal reports: A social media post by Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted on Friday appeared to joke about a racist conspiracy theory that continues to rock an Ohio community. A day after a Springfield school and other public buildings were evacuated and closed due to bomb threats, and the same day that two other Springfield elementary schools …

The New York Times reports: Amid fallout from Donald J. Trump’s debunked claim about immigrants from Haiti stealing and eating people’s pets in a small Ohio city, the former president’s oldest son weighed in with his own aspersions on Haitians. Donald Trump Jr. suggested on Thursday that Haitian immigrants were less intelligent than people from other countries, and claimed that …

The Ohio Capital Journal reports: Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost did his bit to amplify a conspiracy theory that Haitian immigrants legally present in Springfield, Ohio are stealing and eating pets, ducks and geese. The conspiracy has been debunked by the Springfield mayor, city manager and chief of police, as well as by Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine. Yost is …