Texas House approves GOP congressional map
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Vice President JD Vance will be in Georgia on Thursday to take a stab at pitching a massive bill that hasn’t yet been fully implemented.
Another senior aide to former President Joe Biden is set to testify Thursday before the House Oversight Committee as part of the GOP-led panel’s investigation into what it charges was a “cover-up” of Biden’s mental decline.
The state House has reconvened on Wednesday as GOP lawmakers in the Lone Star State look to push ahead with a newly redrawn congressional map designed for Republicans to pick up five U.S. House seats ahead of the 2026 midterms. The plan, known as House Bill 4, could come to a vote on Wednesday in the House and as early as Thursday in the Senate.
Across the U.S., communities are grappling with the fallout of the GOP’s sprawling domestic policy law — including in Republican districts.
The Bulwark’s Tim Miller declared that congressional Republicans are “carrying the biggest political brunt” of the issue.
The former Fox host complained of “CENSORSHIP” by Fox over her coverage of the 2020 election, according to newly unredacted documents in the Smartmatic defamation case.
Republicans are spending August making their sales pitch for the “big, beautiful bill” — and countering Democratic attacks against it.