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Chris Wright, a former oil tycoon who serves as President Donald Trump’s energy secretary, admitted to what he characterized as a major electoral liability for Republicans — but pointed the finger at “Obama-Biden policies” anyway.

That liability, Wright said, was rising energy costs, with electricity prices averaging 5.5% higher in July when compared to the year prior. And while critics have pointed to Trump’s rollback of clean energy incentives as the culprit for rising costs, Wright instead laid the blame directly at the feet of past Democratic administrations.

Republicans are already looking to rebrand what Donald Trump calls one of the most popular laws ever passed.

The president demanded that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) pass all of his legislative priorities into "One Big Beautiful Bill," as the law was eventually named, but after scooting off to August recess early to avoid Jeffrey Epstein questions, Republicans heard an earful from voters angry about the bill they passed, reported The Daily Beast.

A Lutheran pastor in Wisconsin intended to test new Internal Revenue Service rules and endorse a candidate from the pulpit before his plan went wrong and left him without a church.

The Rev. Jonathan Barker had planned to throw his support behind a Democratic candidate after the IRS appeared to carve out an exception to federal law prohibiting churches from making political endorsements, saying that should not apply to preachers speaking to their own congregations. Instead he lost his flock, reported the New York Times.

Gov. Gavin Newsom's (D-CA) digital media team continued its trolling of President Donald Trump on Tuesday — but extended its attacks to include a Fox News host in its latest X posts.

"DANA 'DING DONG' PERINO (NEVER HEARD OF HER UNTIL TODAY!) IS MELTING DOWN BECAUSE OF ME, GAVIN C. NEWSOM!" the post on Tuesday morning read, using the style Trump frequently uses on his Truth Social platform.

As Texas Republicans continue their efforts to hand President Donald Trump five more House seats through its redistricting campaign, speculation grows that Indiana’s GOP lawmakers may soon follow suit — and under the threat of being ousted from office, a White House insider has revealed.

Speaking with Politico on Monday, a person described as “familiar with the White House’s thinking” said that plans for Indiana to arbitrarily redraw its congressional districts to bolster GOP numbers in Congress – and five years ahead of schedule – are already well underway.

Attorneys for Democratic Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier moved for a court to intervene after the member was detained in the House chamber overnight because she did not agree to around-the-clock monitoring by state troopers.

In a Tuesday motion before the district court in Travis County, the attorneys said they were seeking a writ of habeas corpus because "the restraint on her liberty is illegal."

The Justice Department has set its sights on New York Attorney General Letitia James and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) as part of an ongoing effort to carry out a revenge campaign against President Donald Trump’s perceived foes. However, the DOJ lawyer leading the charge doesn’t appear to have all his ducks in a row.

Appellate lawyer Sean Marotta responded to a New York Times report about Edward Martin, the man now at the helm of the so-called "weaponization" effort. Trump claims the DOJ was “weaponized” against him, and Martin will now use it to target Trump’s enemies.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is alienating his colleagues on Capitol Hill, a Tuesday report from NBC News revealed.

According to reporters, Hawley's efforts to bring economic populism to the U.S. Senate are coming into conflict with his GOP colleagues.

Morale is already low at the FBI, but an analyst warned things are about to get worse.

The FBI typically has a director and deputy director to lead the federal law enforcement agency, but pairing Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey as co-deputy director alongside former conservative podcast host Dan Bongino "isn't normal at all," according to MSNBC's Steve Benen.

In a call with Fox & Friends on Tuesday, President Donald Trump discussed at length his ongoing efforts to end the war in Ukraine and then appeared to forget the name of a major body of water.

Trump was asked by Fox News’ Lawrence Jones about the several European leaders who attended Trump’s meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Monday, and whether they had said anything to Trump in private.

President Donald Trump's ploy to bully Senate Republicans into dropping a longstanding rule about presidential nominations appears to have crashed and burned, Politico reported on Tuesday — with lawmakers holding their ground against him in a way they generally dare not do.

The drama began in July, when Trump lashed out at 91-year-old Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA), calling him "weak and ineffective" and demanding he axe "blue slips," the tradition that committees must have the approval of a nominee's home state senators to advance a nominee.

Donald Trump revealed that he didn't want to be "disrespectful" to Russian President Vladimir Putin by calling him in front of European Union leaders.

During a Tuesday interview on Fox & Friends, host Charlie Hurt asked the U.S. president about reports that he had interrupted a meeting with European leaders about Ukraine to speak to Putin by phone.

Democratic Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier was forced to spend the night Monday inside the Texas State Capitol building in Austin after she refused to sign a "permission slip" to accept the mandatory escort by the Department of Public Safety imposed on Democrats by the Republicans who control the chamber.

Republican House Speaker Dustin Burrows announced the restrictions on members of the Democratic caucus earlier in the day after Democrats returned after a two-week hiatus out of state to prevent quorum in the House as a way to block a controversial mid-decade redistricting effort by the GOP that aims to hand the party up to five more seats in midterm congressional elections next year as a favor to President Donald Trump.