House leaders were forced to rush Representative Wesley Hunt, Republican of Texas, to the Capitol with a police escort to avoid an embarrassing defeat on the floor.
Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, a physician, reluctantly voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary. It didn’t appease President Trump.
Senator Bill Cassidy’s re-election bid was upended last week President Trump endorsed a challenger, imperiling the senator’s already-shaky standing with Republicans back home.
Federal agents in Minneapolis this month, the week after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Good. Democrats in the House had said they would not vote for legislation that provided funding for ICE, at least not without major changes.
In his remarks, the former special counsel repeatedly denied that he had acted out of partisan animus and bemoaned the Trump administration’s efforts to go after the president’s perceived enemies.
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