Andrew Solender

NEW: Dems discussing a wide range of tactics to protest Trump's address inside the chamber, sources tell @axios.com Some ideas floated: - Walking out over certain lines - Holding up constitutions, eggs/egg cartons, hand clappers, signs etc. www.axios.com/2025/03/04/t...

One House Dem called deportations a “soup du jour,” telling @axios.com Trump is “setting a trap for the Democrats, and like usual we're falling for it." “Rather than talking about the tariff policy ... we're going to go take the bait for one hairdresser.” www.axios.com/2025/04/16/d...

NEW: Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are asking DOJ's Bondi and FBI's Patel to "immediately clarify" whether Musk's claims about Trump and the Epstein files are true, @axios.com has learned. www.axios.com/2025/06/06/t...

NEW: House Dems trying to get GOP authorization to send an official CODEL to El Salvador to probe the condition of deportees at CECOT. In addition to Van Hollen, Sen. Booker is also planning a trip, sources tell @axios.com w/ @stephenneukam.bsky.social www.axios.com/2025/04/15/h...

I asked Jeffries if he will spend to defend older House Democratic incumbents in safe blue seats who have been outraised by their primary challengers (see here: www.axios.com/2025/10/17/d...) “I have not seen those numbers,” is all he would say

NEW: @axios.com surveyed Democrats running for House across the country. 113 replied: 31 said they would definitely/likely vote for Jeffries as speaker or leader 57 were non-committal 25 said no/likely no Much more here: www.axios.com/2025/10/16/h...

NEW: House Democrats tell @axios.com not to expect them to initiate a legal fight over Trump's methods for paying troops and funding WIC. "The legality is questionable," said one lawmaker. "But politically I hope Democrats don't do it." More here: www.axios.com/2025/10/15/t...

NEW: Justin Pearson's campaign says he raised $200,000 since launching his campaign against Rep. Steve Cohen yesterday morning.

Cohen told @axios.com he left the Progressive Caucus due to a rule requiring members to vote with the group a certain amount of the time. "I'm not a person who likes to be confined by somebody else's rules for membership," he said.

NEW: Justin Pearson of the "Tennessee 3" is challenging Rep. Steve Cohen. There's an age dynamic: Cohen is 76, Pearson is 30. And an ideological one: Cohen left CPC last year + is pro-Israel. Pearson says war in Gaza is a "genocide." @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/10/08/j...

NEW: Luke Bronin, the former Hartford mayor trying to primary 77-year-old Rep. John Larson, raised $1.2 million in the two months since launching his bid, @axios.com has learned. Larson's campaign said he's raised over $1 million in all of 2025. www.axios.com/2025/10/06/j...

Democratic Rep. Jared Golden: “This government shutdown is the result of hardball politics driven by the demands far-left groups are making for Democratic Party leaders to put on a show of their opposition to President Trump.” Big break w/ Dems (from the one House Dem who supported the GOP CR).

Schumer says Trump "seemed to, for the first time, understand the magnitude of this crisis. And we hope he'll talk to the Republican leaders and tell them we need bipartisan input on health care, on rescissions, into their bill."

Schumer says he and Jeffries "laid out to the president some of the consequences of what is happening in health care," such as the closing of hospitals and clinics and rising premiums. "By his face and by the way he looked, I think he heard about them for the first time."