Congress passed a symbolic resolution on Tuesday to condemn socialism — a move that saw eight Democrats cross the aisle to back the GOP on the measure.

The vote, which has no actual effect on public policy, was swiftly mocked by observers on social media.

"Nothing has ever made me want more socialism than this," wrote Jim Stewartson of Mind War.

"Voting to condemn an economic system that doesn’t exist in our country, to protect the one which we live under that exploits the working class to benefit the obscenely wealthy," wrote Melanie D'Arrigo, executive director of Campaign for New York Health. "This was Congress’ priority as 60% of Americans struggle to afford food, housing and healthcare. Embarrassing."

"Imagine getting a salary for this," wrote ESPN NFL reporter Stephen Holder.

"So they’re giving up their healthcare and social security when they retire?" wrote Democratic strategist and talk show host Leslie Marshall.

"Back when Anthony Weiner was in the House he introduced a bill to abolish Medicare and told Republicans to vote against it," wrote political analyst Zaid Jilani. "None of them did. Some socialism is ok."

President Donald Trump’s latest threats against Iran are alarming officials inside his own administration who fear he is digging himself into another military escalation, according to new CNN reporting.

The concerns emerged after the U.S. launched fresh strikes on Iran and Trump threatened it would be hit “much harder” - and even “wiped out as a country” — if it retaliated.

“There is almost no appetite to continue this very escalation,” CNN White House correspondent Kristen Holmes said on “Erin Burnett OutFront.”

“Keep in mind, they feel stretched thin on every level here,” Holmes added. "It’s not just the fact that the munitions stockpile is running low. It’s also the idea that personnel are stretched thin."

Holmes told Burnett that the administration had hoped to move away from military action and focus on economic pressure. But Trump’s latest threats have complicated that.

“These administration officials I’m talking to, they wish he wouldn’t level these kinds of threats at Iran, because then there has to be some kind of follow-through,” she said.

Holmes added that the frustrations extend beyond the White House and include concerns by House Speaker Mike Johnson and podcaster Joe Rogan.

“That is a whole Republican Party who doesn’t want to be in this position,” Holmes said, citing rising gas prices and other economic issues affecting voters ahead of the midterm elections.

Holmes noted that Trump has made similarly alarming threats in the past, but eventually pulled back.

“We've seen him walk up to the line and come back before,” she said. “But is he going to blink yet again?”

A Republican congressional candidate in Florida is denying that she carpetbagged from Illinois and that she is under federal indictment for wire fraud — but evidence reviewed by The Bulwark's Andrew Egger, Cathy Young, and Jim Swift suggests otherwise.

"The tale begins in March 2023, when federal prosecutors in Illinois indicted one Te Dora Brown of Palos Park on 13 felonies, accusing her and her husband Christopher Scott of fraudulently obtaining hundreds of thousands of dollars in COVID relief money by applying for federal loans on behalf of phony employees at companies that turned out not to exist," said the report. Specifically, prosecutors say the two used the money to make "splurge buys at Tiffany, Nordstrom, and Saks Fifth Avenue, buying Uber Eats, and withdrawing huge sums in ATM cash."

Scott pleaded guilty, but Brown has not, and her trial is set to happen just after the midterm elections.

Then last year, said the report, she launched a campaign for Illinois' 11th District, going by the name Tedora M. Brown and proclaiming she was a “former lifelong Democrat” who was “waking up to what the Democratic Party was doing to her community and her country.” She said of the charges against her, “They came after me because I’m a Republican and I’m an American Black woman.”

She came in fourth place in that primary — and then "one month later, a 'Te Brown' popped up in Florida business records, incorporating a new company: TM Brown Incorporated. Was this the same person? It appears so. The company was registered in the name of Brown’s former campaign treasurer, Dratonyai Ratcliff. The same records named the company president as 'Te Brown,' listing her under a Palos Park, Illinois address." That same person is now running in Florida's 24th District in the Miami area.

Despite all of this evidence, the Te Brown in Florida vehemently denies she is the same person as the Te Brown in Illinois.

"On the phone yesterday, she repeatedly insisted she is not Te Dora Brown or Tedora M. Brown of Illinois," said the report. However, when informed the same treasurer filed paperwork for both campaigns, she replied, “Wait, hold on, is this — are you the police?” and said she needed to leave the call to prepare for “an exclusive interview that I’m doing tomorrow with NBC.”