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Senate leans toward Dec. 16 stopgap funding bill - Roll Call

Navigating the evenly divided Senate to get 60 votes to advance the bill will likely require talks on pandemic funding and other issues.

Roll Call

Stopgap funding bill set to dominate September agenda

Lawmakers return to Washington this month to wrestle with a White House request for $47.1 billion in emergency supplemental funds and the need to pass a stopgap spending bill to avoid a partial government shutdown starting Oct. 1.

Tribune News Service

House GOP Leader McCarthy to roll out "Commitment to America" agenda in Pittsburgh

Remember the GOP's "Contract with America" in 1994?

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Lindsey Graham says Trump could make one of ‘biggest political comebacks ever’ in 2024

The South Carolina senator is one of Trump’s more notable fair-weather friends

The Independent UK

Stopgap funding bill set to dominate September agenda - Roll Call

Lawmakers will wrestle with a White House request for $47.1 billion in emergency funds and the need to avert a partial government shutdown.

Roll Call

Enabling a demagogue: a new film traces Republicans’ capitulation to Donald Trump

Michael Kirk’s documentary Lies, Politics and Democracy is a chilling study in how Trump subdued the Republican party

The Guardian - US

Trump: McConnell should be "scorned"

The former president had plenty to say about his debunked election conspiracy theories

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Trump rallies for Oz, Mastriano in Pa. amid midterm worries

Former president Donald Trump heads to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on Saturday for his first rally of the general election season

The Independent UK

First it was Trump, now McConnell’s taking fire from Rick Scott over GOP Senate chances

WASHINGTON — Mitch McConnell is used to getting trashed by Donald Trump.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Ramesh Ponnuru: Republicans need to get serious about Social Security

We’ve reached the point in the midterm election campaign where Democrats insist that Republicans are itching to destroy Social Security. The usual gambit is to take stray comments from one or two Republicans and pretend that they represent a secret and sinister plan.

Tribune News Service

Trump threatens to ‘do something with’ Mitch McConnell after GOP Senate leader criticises his endorsements

Veteran senator and ex-president clash as Republican hopes of retaking the Senate dim

The Independent UK

Republicans notably silent, split as Trump probe deepens

At first, Republicans were highly critical of the FBI search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate

The Independent UK

Is Dr. Oz done? Republicans still see a path to a comeback against Fetterman

WASHINGTON — Mehmet Oz remains behind John Fetterman in the race for Pennsylvania’s open U.S. Senate seat 10 weeks until Election Day.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

McConnell flip-flops on Dr Oz and now says he has ‘great confidence’ in GOP Senate hopeful

The Senate minority leader has previously said ‘candidate quality matters’

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Salon

Justice for sale: The dark-money tsunami

Will a right-wing electronics tycoon's unprecedented $1.6B donation force us to face the tide of corruption?

The Independent UK

Decades on Capitol Hill: From civility to open hostility

How has Congress changed in the last four decades

Tribune News Service

The Republican Party is having an identity crisis

WASHINGTON — The GOP is now acting like a party in search of itself with less than three months before U.S. elections that once favored Republicans to retake both chambers of Congress and set them up for 2024.

The Guardian - US

As Republicans stumble – could Democrats really hold on to the Senate?

Republicans need just one seat to regain the chamber, but recent failures mean things are looking up for the Democrats

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Los Angeles Times

Jackie Calmes: Trump's latest grift — the Save America PAC $100 million hoard

Donald Trump says he's naming me "Patriot of the Month." But the defeated president has told me that month after month in fundraising emails, including every day this week.

Tribune News Service

Earmarks’ future unclear as Republicans split ahead of midterms

WASHINGTON — Potential changes in control of one or both chambers in the midterm elections could put the practice of earmarking federal funds for local projects on the chopping block in the next Congress.

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: Republicans attacking student loan relief as a taxpayer burden got degrees on taxpayers' dime

President Joe Biden's student loan relief proposal, including a freeze on payments through the end of the year and forgiveness of $10,000 to $20,000 in loan balances, has elicited predictable cries of outrage from Republicans.

The Independent UK

Views on pandemic clash in politically divided Kentucky

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear defended his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and offered a spirited assessment of the state’s future after a series of tragedies

The Independent UK

Dr Oz insists Mitch McConnell’s ‘candidate quality’ comment was not about him

They’re not sending their best, at least according to Mitch McConnell

The Independent UK

Trump launches fresh attack on ‘pawn’ Mitch McConnell and calls for new GOP Senate leader

‘A new Republican Leader in the Senate should be picked immediately,’ Trump claims

Roll Call

Earmarks’ future unclear as Republicans split ahead of midterms - Roll Call

Potential changes in control of one or both chambers could put earmarks for local projects on the chopping block.

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