Heard on the Hill
What we're hearing from people we trust on and around the Hill
BIG MOVES: The Congressional Leadership Fund and the American Action Network hired Gefen Kabik to serve as their press secretary. He is an alum of AIPAC, the Trump administration, and more.
UNIONS BUSTED: Sen. Joni Ernst (R., Iowa) and Mary Katharine Ham are teaming up with the Public Labor Union Accountability Committee (PLUAC) for an event next week to discuss Senator Ernst’s legislation, the Protecting Taxpayers’ Wallets Act of 2025. The bill would require unions to reimburse the feds for the time and resources federal government employees used to promote the union’s activities. Those interested in attending can RSVP here.
REDEDICATED: John Ondrasik, better known by his stage name Five for Fighting, officially rededicated his 2001 hit song, Superman, to the Israeli hostages who are still held in Gaza by Palestinian terrorists. “Music is where we should be able to meet honestly without enmity,” Ondrasik explained. “It can remind us that behind every headline is a human being who bleeds and loves and cries just like we do.” Read the Reporter’s coverage of how Ondrasik took D.C. by storm here.
HEY, I’VE SEEN THIS ONE BEFORE: Michal Rachon, one of Poland’s top journalists, is sounding the alarm that the conservative candidate who won Poland’s election, and who was endorsed by President Donald Trump, may have his victory stolen from him. “The liberal left government of Donald Tusk lost the presidential election? As usual with those people: they try to cancel the election results,” Rachon cautioned. “While the world is focused on wars and summits, a critical battle for democracy is playing out here in Poland. Don’t look away.”
TRUST ME, I’M A DOCTOR: The nation’s largest physician interest group, the American Medical Association (AMA), which has been increasingly criticized by Republicans for wading into politics, raised some eyebrows this week with its opposition to the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding a Tennessee law banning puberty blockers and hormone therapy for minors. The Court said the law did not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In contrast, most Republicans celebrated the ruling.
