Sen. Tuberville, running for Alabama governor, doubles down on claim that airline pilots in a furry “club” pose a safety threat, calling it “mental illness.”
Senate rejects resolution to end the Iran war 49-50, as Republican Sen. Cassidy votes no after huddling with Majority Leader Thune.
White House calls taxpayer-funded ad on Fox News and Newsmax touting Trump’s tax cuts “educational,” as Republican Sen. Tillis likens it to Hungary’s Orban action.
Navy discloses eight suicide attempts in the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group during an extended Iran war deployment Trump called “not nearly long enough.”
Des Moines Register and pollster Ann Selzer beat Trump’s fraud suit over a 2024 poll, as an Iowa judge rules the First Amendment protects it.
Cleveland TV stations air Democratic challenger’s ad on domestic abuse allegations against Ohio Rep. Max Miller despite his lawyer’s defamation threat.
ProPublica reveals FBI agents sought a pay-to-play probe of Maine Sen. Collins’ dealings with a defense contractor donor before Trump’s purge killed it.
Federal judge temporarily blocks deportation of Austin man shot by ICE agent, his lawyer says, as Travis County’s district attorney calls him a material witness.
Republican Sen. Curtis asks Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate Trump Jr. after ProPublica reports a Putin-allied Russian oligarch bankrolled his Bahamas wedding weekend.
Federal appeals court reinstates Missouri’s Trump-backed map favoring Republicans in seven of eight House seats, delaying it a week as absentee voting begins.
Trump directs budget chief Vought to draft an order giving him a veto over health research grants after the NIH director refused to cut Harvard.
Trump signs the late Sen. Graham’s Russia sanctions bill, gaining power to put 100% tariffs on the top five buyers of Russian oil and gas.
State Department approves a potential $24 billion sale of 48 F-35s to Saudi Arabia over lawmakers’ warnings China could obtain the jet’s technology.
Six Senate Democrats demand Office of Personnel Management halt collecting claims-level health records on 8 million federal workers and families, data the agency can re-identify.
Senate Agriculture Committee advances the farm bill on party lines, McConnell’s return supplying the vote it lacked in August, as Democrats hold out over food stamp cost shifts.
Full House unanimously holds Apollo co-founder Leon Black in contempt for defying an Epstein subpoena, hours before leaving town for seven weeks.
House Republicans send lawmakers home until November 9, canceling Thursday’s forced vote on Rep. Massie’s bid to impeach Defense Secretary Hegseth over the Iran war.
Trump tells a North Carolina rally “hopefully we’re toward the end” of the Iran war, a week after saying it ends “immediately after” the midterms.
Trump calls the 2024 Butler shooting a “Democrat Plot” the same day his FBI director testifies the gunman spoke to no one but his parents.
Treasury Secretary Bessent tells Congress Trump’s $5,000 checks won’t add to the $40 trillion debt but refuses to say how, calling the plan “in process.”
Senate Democrats block the Clarity Act crypto bill, far short of the 60 votes needed, after Republicans refuse ethics rules covering Trump family crypto profits.
Congressional Budget Office puts the Iran war at $38 billion through August 1, growing up to $3 billion a month, with interceptor stocks depleted for years.
House Oversight Committee votes unanimously to hold Apollo co-founder Leon Black in contempt after he sues to block his Epstein deposition and skips it.
FBI Director Patel won’t rule out agents at Election Day polls or say whether 2020 was rigged, yelling at a senator pressing him on interference.
House votes 220-204 to bar further military action against Iran, a third rebuke with seven Republicans joining, as the Senate sits on July’s version.
Ohio Sen. Husted’s political committee took $492,000 from state-regulated Heartland Bank after he joined its board while lieutenant governor, Ohio Capital Journal finds.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) says HUD Secretary Scott Turner “maybe went for a high-five” after video shows him reaching for her backside at GOP convention.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) calls for public execution of Lindsay Clancy, charged with killing her three children, after a mistrial with jurors 11-1 toward an insanity acquittal.
Trump calls AI safety warnings a “HOAX” and “SICK conspiracy” across six posts, saying the only guardrail needed is a “High IQ” president.
DHS whistleblower says leaders ordered agents to enter state voter-record sites under false pretenses and clear five cases an hour hunting noncitizen voters before the midterms.
Sen. McConnell, 84, returns to Senate in a wheelchair for first vote since June 11, ending a three-month absence his office disclosed in trickles.
Wisconsin GOP governor candidate Rep. Tom Tiffany escapes with 12 stitches after his campaign plane loses power, crash-lands in Lake Wausau and sinks.
House Speaker Johnson says Trump’s $5,000 election-conditioned dividend checks need Congress to act, three days after Trump claimed tariff revenue lets him skip a vote.
Park Service quietly opens contracting for a $500 million-plus sea wall key to Trump’s East Potomac golf project, with no funding after Congress ignored the request.
Ohio Republican Sen. Husted fires campaign political director he hired a month ago after Washington Post found his Facebook profile photo showed Nazi SS soldiers.
Interior Department blocks more than 130 national park projects worth $25 million, including Joshua Tree fire preparedness, saying partner groups work against administration priorities, Washington Post reports.
Trump proposes excluding roughly 16 million undocumented and temporary immigrants from the 2030 census count that allots House seats, reviving his first-term citizenship question.
Sen. Bernie Sanders calls senators to a Sept. 16 AI briefing with pioneer Geoffrey Hinton after an Anthropic researcher publicly quit over safety fears.
House Republicans scrap the chamber’s last 2 weeks of votes before the midterms, returning Sept. 14 for one week, a day after Trump signed a stopgap spending bill.
Billionaire Leon Black sues House Oversight to block Epstein subpoenas and skips his deposition, leaving Chairman Comer an empty chair and Democrats calling for contempt.
House Veterans’ Affairs Committee votes 19-0 to subpoena Oracle’s Larry Ellison after the VA nearly tripled Oracle’s $10 billion health records contract it once vowed to finish without overruns.
Childcare waitlists grow from 8 states to 23 plus DC, stranding hundreds of thousands of eligible children, after Congress let $28 billion in pandemic aid lapse, AP finds.
Trump says US hit Iran “very hard” and can strike again “anytime,” as Pentagon confirms troops were told to stop saying “Operation Epic Fury,” declared over May 5.
House votes 370-48 to fund the government through Dec. 11, blocking political review of grants and fund transfers to Border Patrol, averting a preelection shutdown.
Defense Secretary Hegseth removes at least 6 Army officers from a major general promotion list one day after the Army secretary quit, The Hill reports.
Carrier USS Abraham Lincoln docks in Thailand after 286 days at sea, as Democrats seek a probe of food shortages, broken plumbing and attempted suicides.
House votes 412-2 to censure North Carolina Republican Chuck Edwards, who denies sexual harassment, for giving 2 young staffers handguns, jewelry, poems and vacation invitations.
Postal Service whistleblower tells House Democrats the agency is secretly building a voter screening system, tested for 4 days, despite last week’s court block.
Speaker Johnson endorses Ohio Rep. Max Miller’s reelection as a “great member” while the Ethics Committee investigates allegations he abused his ex-wife and 2-year-old daughter.
Smithsonian puts the National Museum of the American Latino in a building it already owns, bypassing congressional approval after Trump’s budget stripped the museum’s funding.