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With the government shutdown fight over extending Obamacare subsidies reaching its third day on Friday, critics were left stunned after a new poll found that Republican voters were overwhelmingly in support of the Democrat-backed measure, despite GOP lawmakers taking a hardline stance against it.

“The Republican numbers here are nuts,” wrote Jordan Weissmann, writer and editor at The Argument, in an online post on X Friday.

Conducted by the nonprofit health policy organization the Kaiser Family Foundation, the poll found that 59% of Republican voters were in favor of extending Obamacare subsidies, the core issue at stake among Congress as its members fail to reach an agreement....

She says he's shilling lies and sexism to score political points.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is leveling a counteroffensive to her opponent who is trying to defeat her in a 2024 primary rematch.

Former Minneapolis City Council Member Don Samuels is in a race against Omar for the Fifth District and he's throwing slings and arrows that she contends channel Former President Donald Trump and are "beneath the dignity of any adult."...

Arizona Democrat Rep. Ruben Gallego and failed Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake often spar on the social media site previously known as Twitter. But on Thursday, Gallego challenged Lake to chat with him in person as they flew on the same plane.

Lake knocked him for calling Donald Trump's border wall "racist."

There was a 2019 appropriation for the border under Donald Trump's administration that went to building additional barriers. It's a funding measure that Democrats voted for in a deal with the then-GOP Senate. While Trump demanded a "big, beautiful, wall," he got more of the fence. Biden could have ignored the funds and refused to use it. Instead, he allowed 26 environmental laws to be circumvented to spend the money and erect the fence. ...

Congressman Leonard Boswell (D-Iowa) and family are safe but shaken after an armed man entered their home Saturday night demanding money. According to an AP report, the man fled when Boswell's 22-year-old grandson retrieved a shotgun from another room.

WASHINGTON – Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) on Monday urged President Barack Obama to stop deporting children who have grown up in the United States but were brought here illegally by their parents.

WASHINGTON – Former Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana has signed with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as an adviser, becoming the latest of many members of Congress to embrace lobbying after retiring.