It’s been a week since House Oversight subcommittee voted to subpoena the DOJ. But Chair Comer still hasn’t moved on it yet. It’s a noticeable difference to how he responded to a vote to subpoena Ghislaine Maxwell, which he carried out within 24 hours. washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

How Tim Scott and Elizabeth Warren agreed on a sweeping housing package via Liz Goodwin & Rachel Leah Siegel wapo.st/3IR5hJu

NEWS: SLF, Senate GOP super PAC, estimates it needs to spend tens of millions of dollars between now and the end of the year to save JOHN CORNYN. In private donor presentation, SLF projected it would cost between $25 million to $70 million to help Cornyn win the GOP nomination —

NEW: Kristi Noem is living rent-free in a military home typically reserved for the U.S. Coast Guard’s top admiral, report Marianne LeVine Liz Goodwin Dan Lamothe. The arrangement is "highly unusual"

Scoop - SUSAN MONAREZ, nation’s newly installed CDC director, is being ousted, people familiar tell Lena Sun Lauren Weber + me washingtonpost.com/health/2025/08…

NEW via Liz Goodwin : Ron Wyden pushes Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to release Epstein SARS reports wapo.st/47oVCUL

Ex NC Rep Madison Cawthorn is in the Capitol today, says he’s visiting “old friends”

Sen Thom Tillis on the administration taking a 10% stake in Intel. “I hate it, I think it’s awful…I don’t know how any free market conservative could feel comfortable with it.”

Schumer says he met with Mamdani yesterday and is going to “keep talking” with him. No endorsement yet

AOC says she is canceling her Sunday rally in NC for security reasons and out of respect for Kirk.

Speaking in Iowa, Sen Chris Van Hollen criticizes members of the NY delegation who haven’t endorsed Mamdani yet in NYC (that includes Schumer): “That kind of spineless politics is what people are sick of. They need to get behind him.”

NEW JERSEY POLL with PIX11 News & The Hill 2025 Governor's Election Mikie Sherrill 43% Jack Ciattarelli 43% Someone else 3% 11% undecided emersoncollegepolling.com/new-jersey-202…

Senate “talking stick” - literally a stick shared among Rs and Ds - helped end 2018 shutdown. Now half of them are gone, Ds who lost in Trump states or Rs who didn’t like Trump & quit. For now, no centrist talking stick to end shutdown. My column. washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

Congressional Democrats embrace shutdown despite political perils — via ⁦Marianna Sotomayor⁩ and ⁦Liz Goodwin⁩ washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

OMB freezing funds going to Schumer and Jeffries' home state