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The war in Iran rages on.
The Department of Homeland Security is still without funding
and members of Congress are stepping down because of scandals.
Congress is back after a two-e recess.
And so am I.
And there's a lot to talk about.
Let's start with Iran.
This is
the first time members of Congress have come back since negotiations sputtered between the US and Iran.
The president announced that blockade in the straight of Hormuz to mirror the Iranian blockade.
And since the president said in his words that an entire civilization would die unless his demands were met,
some Republicans last week expressed discomfort with that kind of rhetoric.
So when Republican senators came back tonight, I asked them if they were comfortable with the president using that kind of terminology.
And those that I talked to, the several of them said
they were. They thought it was a negotiating tactic and that it was meant to bring the Iranians to the negotiating table.
But there were some moderates, in particular Senator Lisa Marowski of Alaska, who said that that kind of rhetoric could not be written off as merely a negotiating tactic. And in her words, according to a post she made, and a front to American values, and the Department of Homeland Security is still without funding. There's kind of a standoff in the House and the Senate as to how that funding is going to progress.
Right now, the House has a bill in front of it to fund every agency inside the Department of Homeland Security except for Immigration Enforcement.
That's ICE and Customs and Border Protection.
The House has said though it's not going to move forward with that legislation.
This is based on a bill that Republicans struck amongst themselves unless the Senate moves forward with a budget bill, one that can pass along party lines, kind of like a sequel, if you will, to Trump's one big beautiful bill act that only addresses or at least has in it immigration enforcement funding.
But that's going to take some time for the Senate to fully get through that.
So, this is likely to drag out.
So, now let's talk about those scandals that I mentioned.
As members of Congress returned this week, Congressman Eric Swallwell announced that he would be resigning from the House of Representatives after reporting that showed allegations of sexual assault and sexual misconduct.
He denies any wrongdoing, but he withdrew from the gubanatorial race in California the day before.
He was a frontr runner in that race and then he resigned from Congress
on Monday, saying that it was becoming a distraction for his work and for his constituents.
And then not long after Eric Swallwell, Congressman Tony Gonzalez, Republican of Texas, who had been investigated by the House Ethics Committee after admitting to an affair with a subordinate in his office at one time, said that he would be stepping down out of Congress as well.
And oh, by the way, one more thing.
Congress this week has to reauthorize a section of FISA, the law that allows for surveillance of foreigners abroad.
And hardline Republicans hate portions of that law.
So that is likely to be a fight on the House floor as well.
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