The president and his aides can lie to Congress with impunity, he argued, because the Republicans who run the House and Senate have shown they will do nothing about it. “This is the weakest Congress in American history,” Moulton said, accusing Republican leaders of making a co-equal branch of the federal government “essentially fade away.”

Move, while incremental, underscores unrest over Trump’s unilateral military abduction of Maduro among some Republicans.

The U.S. Senate could see a major shakeup in 2026 as Democrats and Republicans battle for control of Congress. In 2024, Republicans flipped the U.S. Senate from blue to red and hold a 53-47 majority.

After the White House called for billions of dollars in funding reductions, senators and representatives are rescinding the proposed cuts and even boosting funds for basic research.

High-ranking Democratic senators have sent letters to giants such as Chevron, Exxon, BP, or Shell requesting "documents and information" about their interaction with the Republican Administration before,

Congressman Wesley Hunt is a Houston native born into a military family who holds the distinction of being a West Point graduate. “There’s 60 years worth of military service just in my immediate family and the reason why that’s so important to me is because service is what this is all