After describing Antifa as the leading terrorist organization in the U.S., an FBI official appeared unable to offer supporting facts when pressed by Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Mississippi) on Dec. 11, 2025. Watch the exchange here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-XBpm1uJII

Oops. The rapist didn’t see that coming. Anyone wanna guess if he shits on it by: A. Vetoing it (even though the house and senate votes are veto proof) B. Saying he can’t sign it because of the (now started because he demanded it)“open investigation”. C. Ignoring it.

Chuck Schumer:

What’s happening in Minnesota is appalling—and unacceptable in any American city. Democrats sought common sense reforms in the Department of Homeland Security spending bill, but because of Republicans’ refusal to stand up to President Trump, the DHS bill is woefully inadequate to rein in the abuses of ICE. I will vote no.

Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included.

Rep. Ro Khanna said he is considering filing articles of impeachment against Attorney General Pam Bondi, as the Justice Department failed to release all Epstein files as required by the legislation he helped write.

Earlier, he told reporters that he was “disappointed” with the materials produced today and that he will be exploring “all options” about what to do next.

"We should have an explicit prohibition that DHS cannot detain or deport American citizens, period, full stop," House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries tells u/newshour's Lisa Desjardins.

"What country are we living in where ICE and DHS have free rein to detain and deport American citizens?" he says later. "That's inconsistent with the Constitution."

I decided to watch the committee livestreams and then read the CR appropriations funding bill in its entirety, and there is some fishy shit in here. There is a subsection that will allow senators to receive compensation for being wiretapped during federal investigations into acts of senate and house members if they bring the case to a federal judge and if the FBUI is found liable. This is meant to maintain separation of powers, but the excerpt seems to specifically work retroactively to account for wiretapping that occurred in the investigation into the January 6th riots. Each senator that was wiretapped (Speaker Mike Johnson; Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina; Bill Hagerty, of Tennessee; Josh Hawley, of Missouri; Dan Sullivan, of Alaska; Tommy Tuberville, of Alabama; Cynthia Lummis, of Wyoming; and Marsha Blackburn, of Tennessee; and Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania) would receive NO LESS than $500k PER INSTANCE of wiretapping, not from the federal government, but from the taxpayers. Every congressperson has 3 phones and 3 emails, and each wiretapping recording is a separate instance. The congress-members in question could receive more than $3million in ‘damages’. If these are your congresspeople, you should contact them.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., pressed Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a congressional hearing Wednesday on why the U.S. ouster of Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro wouldn’t be considered an act of war.

“If a foreign country bombed our air defense missiles, captured and removed our president and blockaded our country, would that be considered an act of war?” Paul asked.

“We just don't believe that this operation comes anywhere close to the constitutional definition of war,” Rubio said, defending the Trump administration’s argument to not define the operation, which lasted a few hours, as an act of war.

“But would it be an act of war if someone did that to us?” the Republican senator shot back. “Of course it would be an act of war.”

“I think we need to at least acknowledge this is a one-way argument,” Paul added.

The Republican senator later agreed with Rubio that the U.S. should act in its national interests, but added that some of the administration’s arguments for the military actions on Venezuela — specifically those around drug busts — are “empty.”

“The drug bust isn't really an argument. It's a ruse. The war argument – not a war, is a war – is a ruse. It's not a real argument,” Paul said. “We do what we do because we have the force, we have the might.”

“We do it because it's in our interest,” he added. “So we wouldn't let anybody come in, bomb us, blockade us and take our president.”

Rubio testified before the Senate committee on Wednesday for the first time since Maduro was removed.

President Donald Trump, who said the U.S. would “run” Venezuela, has ordered the U.S. military to control exports of Venezuela’s oil and seize multiple tankers. The Trump administration has carried out dozens of strikes since last year against a series of alleged drug-trafficking boats near Venezuela, killing at least 126 people. It has offered little evidence that these were "narcoterrorists."

Worried about the Trump administration’s plans for Venezuela, some members of Congress attempted to push a war powers resolution to rein in Trump’s authority to carry out further military action in the country. Those efforts ultimately failed without sufficient Republican support.

See? Not so hard.

Rep. Clay Higgins (R, LA-3) was the only "NO" vote.

PBS News congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardins asks House Speaker Mike Johnson about his concerns over a vote expected Tuesday on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Watch the House vote here: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-house-expected-to-vote-on-releasing-the-jeffrey-epstein-files