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Outside spending in the 2024 election cycle has surpassed $1 billion, outpacing prior election cycles, according to a new OpenSecrets analysis of federal campaign finance reports.

Super PACs and other outside groups that can raise and spend unlimited sums of money have poured about $1.1 billion into 2024 federal elections as of Aug. 15 — nearly twice what similar groups spent over the same period in the 2020 presidential election cycle when independent expenditures hit an all-time record. ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. House Republicans have all but given up on governing this year.

So they’re off to go campaign the rest of the summer despite — in the recent estimation of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump — the nation being mired in “crisis” and “decline” over issues squarely in Congress’ purview, ranging from immigration to inflation to international relations.

After Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and other Republican leaders embarrassingly had to pull four funding bills from the House floor this summer over internal party disagreements, this week GOP leaders just decided to pull the plug on legislating and start their summer recess early. ...

Rep. Jamaal Bowman was unsuccessful in his bid to secure a second term in Congress — the progressive Democrat was bested by Westchester County Executive George Latimore, according to The Associated Press.

AP called the race at 9:38 p.m. Eastern Time.

Bowman had been in an entrenched duel with Latimore in a contest that raised and shelled out $25 million — making it the most expensive congressional primary in history....

WASHINGTON — “The Squad” — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) tight knit band of progressive rabble-rousers — is still making headlines.

But lately, it’s for all the wrong reasons.

After a string of scandals, Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) and Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) are both facing AIPAC-backed primary challengers this year. Bowman’s troubles include pleading guilty to pulling a fire alarm in the Capitol, over which House Republicans censured him. Bush, meanwhile, is under investigation by the FBI for paying her husband for security services....

Snowed in at a Colonial Williamsburg hotel.

No, this is not the start of a Hallmark holiday movie.

Instead, it’s the story of Congress’ 2017 freshman class that, days after being sworn into office, bonded in a most bipartisan fashion over a shared vision for civility in government. ...

Rep. Jamaal Bowman has vowed repeatedly that his political operation would not accept money from campaign donors tied to the real estate industry, corporate PACs or lobbyists, but it turns out he hasn’t exactly stuck to that commitment. Bowman, a Bronx and Westchester Democrat who ascended to Congress in 2021 after defeating former Rep. Eliot Engel in a hard-fought primary, made his power-to-the-people pledge early and often in his run against the 16-term incumbent, framing the decision as a nod to the working class over “the wealthy elite.” But a review of federal campaign finance records off......