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Wrap-up: All-nighter caps Senate work and a short House week

Congress left town this week after the Senate passed Republicans’ high-priority budget reconciliation package for immigration enforcement, while Democrats saw a war powers messaging win in the House. The Senate adjourned in the wee hours of Friday morning following an all-night “vote-a-rama” to pass a nearly $70 billion reconciliation bill…

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US House approves war powers resolution to rein in Trump's military actions

House lawmakers voted 215-208 on the resolution, with four Republicans joining Democrats, an outcome that saw cheers erupting in the House chamber in what is a clear rebuke of Trump’s war strategy.

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The GOP push to ‘love thy neighbor’

When Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles posted Tuesday that “homosexuality has no place in America,” it wasn’t the first time he declared a certain group of people didn’t belong in the U.S. The difference this time: His fellow Republicans called him out, publicly. “Saying that homosexuals have no place in America…

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Johnson criticizes Democrats over opposition to Trump’s DNI pick

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‘Democrats wouldn’t trust Jesus’: Johnson unloads on bid to block Trump’s Tulsi Gabbard replacement

Still, Bill Pulte’s biggest hurdle may not be Democrats — it will likely be fellow Republicans

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House Republicans join Democrats in rebuke to Trump’s Iran war powers

Four Republicans join Democrats on a War Powers Act resolution in the latest act of defiance against Trump by some Republicans

The Independent UK

He hasn’t been seen in months. The Congressional Record disagrees

It’s been nearly three months since he last cast a vote on the House floor, but Rep. Thomas H. Kean Jr. has been keeping busy — or at least trying to look like he is. In the New Jersey Republican’s absence, five speeches under his name have appeared in the…

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Trump summons Mike Johnson to White House as reviled $1.8B DOJ ‘slush fund’ hangs in the balance

Republicans including Mitch McConnell have indicated their fierce opposition to what they have called a ‘slush fund’ on the Hill

The Independent UK

Top Republican is on a collision course with Donald Trump. Can John Thune survive the crash?

ANALYSIS: Thursday’s showdown in the Senate was significant, writes John Bowden, but would the majority leader dare being labeled disloyal to King MAGA?

The Independent UK

War Powers Vote Is the Latest Embarrassment for House Speaker Mike Johnson

Johnson is seemingly incapable of standing up to the Trump administration, even when one of Congress' core responsibilities is at stake.

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Republican lawmakers call off vote on Trump's War Powers Resolution that was on the verge of passing

Democrats slammed Republicans as “cowards” for delaying the voting procedure into next month, while Republicans argue the move was to allow lawmakers unable to attend the vote a chance to cast their say.

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House Democrats blast Republicans for pulling vote to halt Iran War before Memorial Day: ‘It’s a disgrace’

Lawmakers claimed that GOP pulled the vote as they did not have enough votes to block the War Powers Act resolution

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Absent Republican rep claims he’s running for re-election after being missing for months with mystery illness

Republican Representative Tom Kean Jr. hasn’t voted in Congress since March 5

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Reconciliation bill punted until after Memorial Day recess

Congressional leaders are closing up shop for the week without voting on their long-sought immigration budget bill, as Senate Republicans struggled to agree on legislative text amid an 11th-hour fight over a new Justice Department “anti-weaponization” fund. While Republican leaders had hoped to push the bill through both chambers on strictly…

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What Jefferson and Madison would have thought about ‘rededicating’ the US to God

Thousands of Americans prayed on the National Mall on May 17, 2026, during “Rededicate 250”: a day-long rally to “come together in prayer and worship ahead of the nation’s 250th birthday,” as organizers described it. U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, one of many Republican politicians and conservative Christian leaders to…

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House NIL bill gets benched

House Republican leaders have once again scrubbed plans to vote on legislation that would usher in substantial changes to college sports, leaving an uncertain path ahead. Attention is now turning to the Senate, where Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., are reportedly preparing their own bipartisan proposal to…

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Trump’s trip to China doesn’t move the needle on low approval ratings

President Donald Trump returned from China with few concrete wins, and his refusal to owe Xi Jinping a favor in return for the Chinese president’s help reopening the Strait of Hormuz highlights his lack of a plan to ease Republicans’ gas prices concerns as Democrats hammer his 79-day-old conflict. After…

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Mike Johnson said members of Congress should ‘engage in some stock trading’, how else could they possibly ‘take care of their family’?

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Taiwan’s president defends US arms purchases that Trump called 'bargaining chip'

Trump’s calling of arms sales to Taiwan a “bargaining chip” has raised concerns on the self-governing island of a potential change in US foreign policy towards the territory after the US president’s latest visit to China.

International Business Times UK

Fake Congressman Post Triggers MAGA Fury Over $200,000 Salary Before Parody Is Revealed

A satirical account posing as a Californian representative incited outrage in conservative media by making false demands, highlighting the vulnerabilities of the modern information ecosystem.

The Independent UK

Lindsey Graham rants about Churchill and Nazis when asked to defend Trump’s comments on Americans’ finances

Graham compares Trump to Winston Churchill amid the war in Iran causing gas prices to spike

The Independent UK

Mike Johnson shrugs off Black voters’ concerns about GOP gerrymandering: ‘This brings back fairness’

Johnson’s home state of Louisiana will draw out a second majority-Black district after the Supreme Court’s ruling that all but killed the Voting Rights Act

Axios

House Ethics wants reinforcements as misconduct probes pile up

"That committee is very busy right now," Speaker Johnson told Axios.

The Independent UK

Second lawmaker, 83, absent for a month from Congress as staff repost old photos of her on social media

Frederica Wilson, 83, follows absence of New Jersey Republican who GOP leaders say left them in the dark

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US House leaders announce bipartisan effort to combat sexual misconduct in Congress

Announcement of taskforce comes after resignations of two congressmen amid sexual misconduct allegations

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