Rep. Jared Golden announces he’ll seek re-election, setting up battleground district fight
Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, announced this morning that he’s seeking re-election.
“I have decided the best way to continue serving the people of Maine is to do my part to restore balance in Congress by helping to win back the House of Representatives,” he said in a post on X. “My focus will remain on checking the extremes and putting working class families first.”
Golden has been in Congress since 2019. He narrowly won re-election in 2024 in his district, which Trump won all three cycles he ran.
Golden has been willing to break with his own party, including on backing aspects of Trump’s tariff agenda.
Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms launches run for Georgia governor
Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former Atlanta mayor who more recently served in top posts at the Democratic National Committee and in then-President Joe Biden’s White House and 2024 campaign, is running for governor of Georgia.
She announced her campaign this morning, releasing a video on social media that recounts her upbringing and tight-knit family, and criticizes Trump.
“These days, most Georgians are right to wonder: Who’s looking out for us? Donald Trump is a disaster for our economy and our country. From his failure to address rising prices to giving an unelected billionaire the power to cut Medicare and Social Security — it’s one terrible thing after another,” Bottoms says in the video.
DOJ says it has charged N.J. congresswoman with assaulting law enforcement at ICE facility
The Justice Department said it filed charges yesterday against Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., alleging she assaulted law enforcement this month at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Newark.
The acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey, Alina Habba, made the announcement on X, where she accused McIver of “assaulting, impeding and interfering with law enforcement.”
McIver called the charges “purely political” in a statement and said she looks forward “to the truth being laid out clearly in court.”
“Earlier this month, I joined my colleagues to inspect the treatment of ICE detainees at Delaney Hall in my district. We were fulfilling our lawful oversight responsibilities, as members of Congress have done many times before, and our visit should have been peaceful and short. Instead, ICE agents created an unnecessary and unsafe confrontation when they chose to arrest Mayor Baraka,” she said.
RFK Jr. to testify before Congress again after last week’s contentious hearings
Reporting from Washington
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee today, where he is likely to face questions about many of the issues he did during last week’s contentious congressional hearings.
The hearing centers on Trump’s budget request for the Department of Health and Human Services, but Kennedy is likely to be asked about his vaccine skepticism and support of fluoride bans and the massive DOGE-led cuts to his department.