Mia Camille McCarthy

The news is out: I am super excited to announce I am joining @politico’s Congress team, helming the “Inside Congress” newsletter with the one and only @lisakashinsky Can’t wait to get started with this stellar team covering all the Capitol craziness to come this year!

NEW: Andrew Garbarino to be next House Homeland Security Chair

GOP lawmakers are heading to the White House tomorrow night for a megabill celebration with Trump, per sources WH invited House GOP conference W/ @Reporter_Mia

NEW: Johnson says they are moving forward with suspension votes this week and not sending members home early. Also said cited appropriations committee work happening this week. “We’re not sending anybody home,” the speaker said.

“We’re done in Rules Committee until September.”

NEW: Jim McGovern tells me that Rules has been cancelled for the rest of the week👀

Rep. Ralph Norman told reporters Republicans didn’t want to give Democrats “an endless microphone” to discuss Epstein — after Rep. Jim McGovern warned the Rules committee, “we’ll be here all night”

🚨Some GOP members on Rules didn’t want to vote on Epstein amendments tonight amid Dem pressure — and felt leadership didn’t have a solution in place despite talking through several options today, per sources so current plan is no rule this week - a HUGE blow to GOP leaders who…

NEWS - House Rules Committee isn’t returning AT ALL tonight and likely not AT ALL THIS week amid Epstein + other issues, per sources Scalise confirms to me it’s “not likely” Rules return - meaning House would leave without advancing immigration and several other bills

House Republicans have discussed several possible options for Epstein-related measures in Rules tonight - but haven’t landed on anything so far, per sources Rules has recessed until likely 9:30/10pm with some members attending 7pm GOP steering mtg on Homeland chair race Rs…

The horrors persist

last week of the Longworth Dunkin dnt txt

Scoop: A WSJ reporter was slated to be part of the travel pool this weekend when Trump travels to Scotland. After the paper's Epstein story last week, the WH booted them from the pool. w/ @iriesentner politico.com/news/2025/07/2…

icymi - how Democrats are wrestling with their shutdown strategy w/ @JAscholtes @ktullymcmanus politico.com/news/2025/07/2…

NEW: Johnson is noncommittal on whether the Epstein non-binding resolution will get a floor vote. “We will see how all this develops,” Johnson said, asked by @mychaelschnell if he would bring it to a floor vote.

more here w/ @JAscholtes @ktullymcmanus @Reporter_Mia politico.com/news/2025/07/1…

Rescissions package passes 216-213, Fitzpatrick and Turner join all Dems in voting no