Heard on the Hill
What we're hearing from people we trust on and around the Hill
MARIACHI DEMS: Senate Republicans watched a video at the Republican Senators’ lunch this week with clips of Sen. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.) set to mariachi music. A source in the room told us that “Senators loved it. Schumer deserves to be mocked for the Schumer Shutdown.”
PAXTON VS. CHINA: Texas’s Attorney General Ken Paxton is getting praise from our Congressional sources for his investigation of a router tech company’s ties to China. “If Big Tech is giving Chinese communists access to Americans’ data, there is no question that they’re using that data against us,” Attorney General Paxton said. “I will not allow any company to sell us out to our greatest geopolitical enemy. If TP Link is violating Texas law and jeopardizing Americans, my office will do everything in our power to hold them accountable.”
BIOTECH WIN FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP: Of all the manufacturing expansion announcements since President Donald Trump’s second term began, perhaps none has been bigger than the biotech industry. PhRMA, the trade association representing the biotech industry, celebrated October as manufacturing month with an announcement of more than $500 billion in investments.
NOT SO FAST: Amy McGrath was decisively beaten by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) in 2020. Now, she is gearing up for a rematch, but she can’t even get her own party on board. “Please don’t,” former Rep. Susan Wild (D., Pa.) responded to McGrath.
ACCOUNTABILITY TIME: Jay Jones, the Democrats’ controversial nominee for Attorney General of Virginia, is causing major down-ballot headaches. The Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC) got in on the fun, targeting virtually every Virginia Democrat who has remained silent on Jones’s violence and speed-fueled scandals.
HUGE QUARTER: State Representative Houston Gaines raised an eye-popping $1.3 million in just two months for his campaign to succeed Rep. Mike Collins (R., Ga.), who is running for Senate.