- ANOTHER JOHNSON WIN: In what Rep. Virginia Foxx (R., N.C.) called “another big win for Speaker Mike Johnson✨,” House Republicans voted to end another government shutdown.
- BICAMERAL SHARIA BAN: Sen. Tommy Tuberville joined Rep. Keith Self (R., Texas), Rep. Chip Roy (R, Texas) and other members of the Sharia-Free America caucus to sound alarm on rise of Sharia law in America during a press conference today.
- TRUMP ADMIN VS. BDS: Leo Terrell, the Chair of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, forcefully rejected an anti-Semitic proposal at the University of Nebraska to boycott Israel. “Antisemitism has NO place on college campuses. I’m calling on the student government at the University of Nebraska to VOTE NO on the antisemitic BDS resolution pushed by SJP, a group that has celebrated attacks by terrorist organizations and is now targeting AMERICAN companies through its BDS campaign.”
- GEORGIA SHAKEUP: Businessman Rick Jackson just threw his hat in the race for Georgia governor with an ad obtained exclusively by the Washington Reporter that takes aim at Brad Raffensperger, comparing Georgia’s GOP Secretary of State to “Judas.” Jackson announced plans to immediately pour $40 million of his own money into his campaign.
- TIME FOR A REBUILD: A Trump Kennedy Center insider spoke with the Washington Reporter about the coverage of how the center will shut down for at most two years to complete full-scale renovations. “Trump is cleaning up the massive mess left by Dems who were running this place,” the source explained. “He is temporarily closing it bc the building reached a breaking point (literally).”
- BIRTHDAY SHOUTOUT: Happy Birthday to Rep. Claudia Tenney (R., N.Y.), friend of the Washington Reporter and conservative leader serving the great upstate New York.