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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) departs a House Republican Conference Meeting at the U.S. Capitol on February 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

Dems, GOP declare victory in DHS deal

Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents are seen working as passengers wait in long lines outside of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia, United States on March 23, 2026. (Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

House rejects Senate plan to fund TSA

Attendees listen to Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) speaking at a "Only Citizens Vote" Bus Tour rally at Upper Senate Park outside the U.S. Capitol on September 10, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

Trump is all in on the SAVE America Act

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on July 31, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

Graham called out for "temper tantrum"

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WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 11: Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) walks out of the Senate Chamber on December 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. Two opposing health care bills intended to avert rising health care premiums have failed. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Health care vote suffers in the Senate

Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., speaks during a Senate hearing on June 24, 2025. (ill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Ossoff bets his race on affordability

Jason Kyle Howard

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks at a press conference on Oct. 15, 2025. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Why Democrats can’t stay united

Chauncey DeVega

President Donald Trump plans to quadruple imports of Argentinian beef. (Fevziie Ryman/Getty Images)

Beef is no longer on MAGA's menu

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Paul Ingrassia announces the release of brothers Andrew and Matthew Valentin outside of the DC Central Detention Facility on January 20. (Photo by Pete Kiehart/Getty Images)

Racist texts tank Ingrassia nom

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-NY, accompanied by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, speak at the U.S. Capitol on April 8, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Democrats seem to have grown a spine

Heather Digby Parton

People participate in a rally to call on Congress to protect funding for US public broadcasters outside the NPR headquarters in Washington, DC, on March 26, 2025. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Republicans defund public media

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, takes an elevator just off the Senate floor after the Senate stayed in session throughout the night at the U.S. Capitol Building on July 1, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

How Lisa Murkowski was bought

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US President Donald Trump during a a press conference in the East Room to the White House in Washington, DC, on February 24, 2025. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

The "Big Beautiful Bill" is in trouble

Heather Digby Parton

Damon Thueson shows a holster at a gun concealed carry permit class put on by "USA Firearms Training" on December 19, 2015 in Provo, Utah.
Uptick In Interest In Concealed Carry Classes (George Frey/Getty Images)

GOP could make it easier to carry a gun

U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., speaks to press before the Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing for U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Capitol Hill on January 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

Dems ready to collab on deportations

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) special agent preparing to arrest alleged immigration violators (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

GOP anti-immigrant bill gets Dem support

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U.S. Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-SD) (C) speaks alongside Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) (L) and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) (R) during a news conference following the weekly Senate Republican policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on December 10, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Senate parliamentarian could thwart MAGA

Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, reacts to the crowd as he concludes a campaign rally on October 19, 2024, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

There is no mandate for MAGA

Heather Digby Parton

Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the California GOP Fall convention on September 29, 2023 in Anaheim, California. (David McNew/Getty Images)

The positive side of one-party rule

Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump smiles at the crowd during the National Guard Association of the United States' 146th General Conference & Exhibition at Huntington Place Convention Center on August 26, 2024 in Detroit, Michigan. (Emily Elconin/Getty Images)

Trump Cabinet picks may dodge Senate

Charles R. Davis

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Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., conducts a news conference in the U.S. Capitol after the senate luncheons on Tuesday, September 24, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Thune wins Senate GOP leadership fight

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), flanked by Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) as he speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill on May 22, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

Sen. Republicans kill border deal again

Griffin Eckstein

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks during a news conference after a closed-door lunch meeting with Senate Republicans at the U.S. Capitol on June 7, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

GOP wants to repeal tax on top 0.1%

Sharon Zhang - Truthout

Former U.S. President Donald Trump (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

GOPers on Trump "hitlist" win primaries

Brad Reed - Raw Story

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