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3 days ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | David Sivak
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) won’t be getting involved in the race for his Alabama Senate seat, beyond giving President Donald Trump advice if he asks for it. Tuberville, who opted to run for governor next year instead of staying in the Senate, said he would not endorse in the primary as Republicans begin to announce their candidacies. “In the primary, I’ll stay out of it,” Tuberville told the Washington Examiner in a brief interview.
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3 days ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | David Sivak
Congressional Republicans faced their latest curveball Tuesday on President Donald Trump’s domestic policy agenda when Elon Musk abruptly blasted Trump’s tax and spending legislation as a “disgusting abomination” for adding to the deficit. Musk’s takedown of Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” offered a Freaky Friday moment for Republicans and Democrats, who suddenly swapped places.
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3 days ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | David Sivak
Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) will brief senators on the war in Ukraine on Wednesday, their latest step to build momentum for a bipartisan Russia sanctions bill. In a brief interview with the Washington Examiner, Blumenthal said Ukrainian representatives have been invited to discuss the state of the war after a second round of peace talks with Russia ended without a breakthrough.
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4 days ago | 
gazette.com | Ramsey Touchberry |David Sivak
Congressional Republicans faced their latest curveball Tuesday on President Donald Trump’s domestic policy agenda when Elon Musk abruptly blasted Trump's tax and spending legislation as a “disgusting abomination” for adding to the deficit. Musk's takedown of Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” offered a strange moment for Republicans and Democrats, who suddenly swapped places.
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1 week ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | David Sivak
EXCLUSIVE – Advancing American Freedom, the advocacy group founded by former Vice President Mike Pence, is urging lawmakers to ignore the Congressional Budget Office‘s deficit projections as Republicans advance their tax agenda on Capitol Hill. In a memo circulated to congressional offices on Friday, AAF called the nonpartisan budget forecaster “wildly inaccurate” after it projected the tax portion of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” would add $3.8 trillion to the debt.
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1 week ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | David Sivak
EXCLUSIVE — Attorney General Steve Marshall will run for Senate in Alabama, becoming the first statewide official to launch a campaign for Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-AL) seat. In an interview with the Washington Examiner, Marshall praised Tuberville, who announced a run for governor on Tuesday, as a “strong voice for Alabama” during his time in the Senate while emphasizing his own background as a prosecutor. “We’re very blessed in having a leader like Sen.
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1 week ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | David Sivak
President Donald Trump is betting he can bring public opinion to his side in a winding legal fight with Harvard, the elite university that, more than any other, has resisted his sweeping policy demands. Harvard has sued the Trump administration twice for actions it says amount to a “campaign of retribution.” Its president, Alan Garber, has said the school ought to improve viewpoint diversity and its response to campus protests – two areas the Trump administration is demanding be addressed.
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1 week ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | David Sivak
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) launched his campaign for governor of Alabama, becoming the latest senator to snub national politics in favor of an executive post. Tuberville, the former Auburn football coach who rode to national prominence as a fierce defender of President Donald Trump, published a campaign website and X account on Tuesday afternoon, with his formal announcement expected on Fox News’s Will Cain Show. A spokesperson for Tuberville confirmed the authenticity of the website and account.
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2 weeks ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | David Sivak
Senate Republicans are vowing a major rewrite of President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” despite House leadership’s pleas not to undo the carefully crafted bill. House and Senate leaders are broadly aligned on the tax bill and have been meeting regularly to avoid points of conflict. But Senate Republicans made clear the compromise, a product of frenzied last-minute negotiations, must be negotiated again after it passed the House by a single vote on Thursday.
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2 weeks ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | David Sivak
Former President Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis has renewed congressional scrutiny of his presidency as Republicans allege a cover-up of both his mental and physical health. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), the chairman of a Senate investigative subcommittee, will be requesting interviews related to the diagnosis, he told the Washington Examiner, as part of a new inquiry that could target Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the physician responsible for conducting his annual exam.
