Congressional Republicans were largely silent on the fifth anniversary of the January 6 insurrection on Tuesday, even as Democrats sought to use the occasion to blast Donald Trump and a small group of protesters convened on the grounds of the US Capitol in solidarity with those who carried out the attack. Democrats, who are in the minority in Congress after fruitlessly hoping that the well-documented violence would cause voters
President Donald Trump angered several Republican senators this week, many of whom made the rare move of publicly speaking out against the president over his attack on Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA). Trump raged at Grassley over the weekend for upholding the Senate's long-standing blue slip rule, which allows a senator the right to block a judicial nominee in their state. Trump's former attorney, Alina Habba, is currently being blocked by New Jersey's two Democratic senators from serving as a U.S. Attorney in the state, using the rule.
"Mamdani must be defeated in November - and Republican Curtis Sliwa is the only candidate who will fight for safe streets and economic opportunity for all New Yorkers," Party chairman Ed Cox said in a statement.
