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Mary Rooke Commentary and Analysis Writer November 20, 2025 11:09 AM ET As the political world turns its sights to the 2026 midterm elections, one issue will outweigh all the rest: affordability. Democrats held the federal government hostage over extending subsidies for the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) for the individual market. Without these

November 20, 2025 8:24 AM ET Democratic Florida Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick could be expelled from the House after being charged by federal prosecutors Wednesday night with funneling federal disaster funds into her campaign account. Republican Florida Rep. Greg Steube, said he would file a motion to censure Cherfilus-McCormick on Thursday morning following the Department of

November 19, 2025 10:26 PM ET The House of Representatives voted unanimously Wednesday evening to repeal a new law allowing senators to sue the federal government for massive sums over secretly subpoenaed phone records. House lawmakers voted 426 to 0 to overturn the provision tucked inside a recent government funding bill, which permitted senators —

November 19, 2025 9:42 PM ET Republican Florida Rep. Cory Mills narrowly avoided a formal rebuke by his colleagues on Wednesday evening after the vast majority of House Republicans voted to scuttle the measure. Mills successfully evaded the censure resolution offered by Republican South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace that would have stripped him of his

November 19, 2025 8:35 PM ET President Donald Trump signed the “Epstein Files Transparency Act” into law on Wednesday, ordering Attorney General Pam Bondi to make all related unclassified Department of Justice (DOJ) records public. The process picked up steam after 218 members of Congress signed onto a discharge petition Nov. 12, allowing the bill

November 19, 2025 7:45 PM ET A federal grand jury charged Democratic Florida Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick on Wednesday with siphoning off millions in taxpayer-funded disaster aid and allegedly channeling the money into her 2021 congressional bid. The Federal Election Commission opened a probe into Cherfilus-McCormick in September after complaints accused her 2021 campaign of concealing

November 19, 2025 6:25 PM ET The House Ethics Committee announced a formal investigation into Republican Florida Rep. Cory Mills on Wednesday evening just hours before the embattled lawmaker is set to face a censure resolution that could weaken his standing in Congress. The bipartisan panel voted to investigate Mills for a host of allegations

November 19, 2025 5:43 PM ET Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett not only cited the wrong Jeffrey Epstein in her Tuesday floor speech attacking Republicans — records show her team also appears to have fallen for obvious troll donations listing Epstein’s occupation as “child molestor.” Crockett claimed Tuesday that GOP figures including EPA Administrator Lee

November 19, 2025 5:12 PM ET The House of Representatives passed two bills targeting drug trafficking by South American cartels, including infamous Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA), on Wednesday. One bill, sponsored by Republican Mississippi Rep. Michael Guest, increases the capacity of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel to collaborate with foreign governments

November 19, 2025 4:37 PM ET Sometime in the mid 2010s, Teen Vogue transformed from a magazine for teenage girls to a propaganda rag for wannabe revolutionaries.  The higher-ups appear to have seen the error of their ways, with parent company Condé Nast announcing in early November that Vogue would absorb Teen Vogue . Multiple