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1 day agoTexas Attorney General Ken Paxton Continues to Sink to New Lows
Minnesota Rep. Elliott Engen was arrested for driving while impaired, highlighting issues of hypocrisy among lawmakers regarding DUI offenses.
I am challenging Mr. Menefee to a debate ... right away, but I also challenge him to come to work. Within his first month in Congress, after having sworn that he was going to come here and vote ... he missed a week. My voting record is 97.9% over 20 years. He missed six votes in one day, and then missed additional votes as well. We had a classified briefing on the Iran war, he wasn't there. He needs to know that this is where we work.
In 2025, the House passed legislation backed by Crenshaw that would prohibit Medicaid funds from covering gender-affirming care for minors. The proposal sought to amend the Social Security Act to block federal funding for treatments such as hormone therapy, puberty blockers, and surgeries intended to help transgender youth transition.
The Ethics Committee has announced an investigation into Congressman Tony Gonzales's conduct, and we urge the to act expeditiously. Congressman Gonzales has said he will fully cooperate with the investigation. We have encouraged him to address these very serious allegations directly with his constituents and his colleagues. In the meantime, Leadership has asked Congressman Gonzales to withdraw from his race for re-election.
We don't have any of the results because there was a lot of confusion today. We were able to keep the polls open, but I can tell you now that people have been disenfranchised.
The Cornyn/NRSC JFC is airing a new ad accusing Ken Paxton of "sleeping around with a married mother of seven" and calling him a "wife-cheater and fraud." Has there been another instance of a committee going so hard against a candidate who it may have to support in a few months?
Republican elected officials in Mississippi, New Hampshire, Tennessee and beyond have fought proposed facilities in their states. New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte (R) recently celebrated DHS striking its plans for an ICE facility that triggered public outcry in suburban Merrimack. She thanked DHS Secretary Kristi Noem for 'hearing the concerns' of residents.
Mr President, if we get to November of [2026] and people's 401(k)s are down 30% and prices are up 1020% at the supermarket, we're going to go into election day, face a bloodbath, Cruz said he told the president, according to Axios. You're going to lose the House, you're going to lose the Senate, you're going to spend the next two years being impeached every single week.
President Donald Trump has announced he will send Tom Homan to Minneapolis, an apparent benching of DHS honcho Kristi Noem, who has reportedly been at odds with the border czar. Trump announced the move via his Truth Social platform on Monday morning, two days after the shooting of Minneapolis VA nurse Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents. I am sending Tom Homan to Minnesota tonight.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is ordering state agencies and public universities in Texas to halt new petitions for H-1B visas. In a letter to Texas state agency heads on Tuesday, Abbott wrote that there had been "recent reports of abuse" in the program, which is designed to bring high-skilled foreign workers to the United States. "Texas state agencies and institutions of higher education collectively employ hundreds of thousands of Texans and have a significant role in shaping the State's labor market," Abbott wrote.