“Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Wednesday that Speaker Mike Johnson has to figure out a way forward on the Jeffrey Epstein controversy that’s derailed House business until the fall,” Politico reports. Said Thune: “In some fashion, in some way, he’s going to have to handle it and deal with

“A House subcommittee on Wednesday voted to subpoena the Department of Justice for files in the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein after Democrats successfully goaded GOP lawmakers to defy Trump and Republican leadership to support the action,” the AP reports. “Democrats on a

“Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is standing in the way of Mike Waltz’s nomination as ambassador to the United Nations, dealing a serious setback to Trump’s former national security adviser,” Axios reports.

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“The Supreme Court Wednesday cleared the way for President Donald Trump to remove the Democratic members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, allowing the administration to continue to seize control of the federal bureaucracy while litigation continues in the lower courts,” the Washington