Kate Santaliz
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Congressional reporter @Axios | Past: @NBCNews | [email protected] | Signal: katesantaliz.57
Personal news🎉: I’m excited to share I’ll be joining Axios as a congressional reporter covering House Republicans Monday! Add me to your press lists and send tips to [email protected] or reach me on Signal: katesantaliz.57
Scoop: Social Security chief Frank Bisignano will meet with Elizabeth Warren in Washington tomorrow amid deep Democratic concerns about staffing and service cuts, Axios has learned. Warren plans to press Bisignano on everything from the possibility of future staff cuts to the…
Scoop: Bipartisan group of lawmakers confronted Elon Musk on xAI and Grok's rampant use of antisemitic language, according to a letter obtained by Axios. The letter from Senate and House members says xAI's failure to mitigate Grok's use of hate speech is "reckless, unacceptable,…
The debate over the Epstein files has effectively frozen House business Leadership opted to cut the week short and leave town before things escalate further axios.com/2025/07/22/hou…
House: Eh idk what to do this week, let’s go home Senate: what if we stayed here forever
Norman calling leadership to take up the Epstein resolution BEFORE August recess
🚨 I led Republicans in a serious resolution — that protects victims — to expose the truth about the Epstein files, just like President Trump promised. But leadership is stalling. The American people deserve action, not excuses. Let’s vote on it before August recess and get it…
Burchett's motion just PASSED in a voice vote
NEW: GOP Rep. Tim Burchett is planning to introduce a motion in today's House Oversight government operations subcommittee hearing to subpoena Ghislaine Maxwell, per two sources familiar with the matter.
88-year-old D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton tells me this AM: “I’m certainly going to run for reelection.” (Her office has repeatedly walked this back already: axios.com/2025/06/25/nor…)
News: House GOP steering committee voted Monday to recommend Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.) for chair of the powerful Homeland Security Committee axios.com/2025/07/22/gar…
News: Johnson has no plans to send members home early despite the standstill over Epstein axios.com/2025/07/22/jef…
Thune on Trump’s demand to cancel August recess: “We're thinking about it. We want to get as many noms through the pipeline as we can” He told me he’s talked to Trump about it
News: The House voted early Friday to approve President Trump's requested clawback of $9 billion in federal funding for PBS, NPR and foreign aid programs The measure passed 216-213 with only Republican support shortly ahead of a Friday night deadline axios.com/2025/07/18/hou…
spotted at the US capitol ahead of the midnight rescissions vote
Chip Roy thinks Trump wouldn’t sign the Massie/Khanna resolution to force the release of all info on Epstein: “If you're the president of the United States, and you're trying to, I don't know, enforce separation of powers, then you go, ‘Well, I'm not going to sign this.’”
House Rules Republicans introduced a non-binding resolution calling for the release of docs related to the Epstein investigation. The measure is a H.Res, which stands for House Resolution, and is a simple resolution not subject to Senate passage or approval by the president.
News: House GOP leadership unlocked support to proceed with the GENIUS Act and end a 10+ hour vote Speaker Johnson said they agreed to attach the anti-CBDC bill to the must-pass NDAA Holdouts wanted to combine all 3 crypto bills into 1 package axios.com/2025/07/17/gen…
The House’s much anticipated “Crypto Week” is off to a rocky start, with a group of House Republicans tanking a key procedural vote to advance a trio of crypto bills axios.com/2025/07/15/hou…
House Democratic leadership appears to now be backing Rep. Ro Khanna’s measure to force the release of the Epstein files:
Rep. Ro Khanna's proposed amendment to the GENIUS Act would require AG Pam Bondi to release all records related to Jeffrey Epstein within 30 days and post them on a "publicly available website," per copy obtained by @Axios axios.com/2025/07/14/tru…
NEW: Lead investigator into Biden's use of an autopen signed letters with a digital signature W / @MZanona nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
Asked if he has full confidence in AG Pam Bondi following her handling of the Epstein docs, Sen. John Kennedy says: “That's a killer question, but it'll probably be ruled a suicide.”