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85-year-old longtime House Democrat facing primary challenger who’s making age a key issue
Longtime Democratic Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer has yet to announce whether he will seek re-election next year for a 24th two-year term in Congress.
If he does, he will face a primary challenger who is making Hoyer’s age – the congressman turns 86 next month and would be 89 at the end of his next term – a centerpiece of his campaign.
Harry Jarin, 35, a volunteer firefighter and emergency services’ consultant, said Thursday in a new video announcing his candidacy, «If you live here in southern Maryland, I want to ask you a tough question. Do you really think that Steny Hoyer, at 89-years-old, is the best person to represent us?»
Jarin argued that «we’re in a moment of real crisis. Radical Republicans are burning down our country around us. Our friends and family who work in the government are losing their jobs. We keep sending politicians like Steny Hoyer back to Congress again and again. Tired politicians like Steny can’t put up a fight that we need.»
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Democrat Harry Jarin, seen in campaign launch video, is primary challenging longtime Democratic Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland in the 2026 elections. (Harry Jarin for Congress)
«Here’s the bottom line: you don’t put out a fire by sending in the same people who let it spread. Send in a firefighter,» Jarin said. «Maryland deserves a new generation of leadership, and I’m ready to take up the fight.»
Fox News reached out to Hoyer’s office for a response, but a spokesperson declined to respond.
Hoyer, who first won his seat in Congress in a 1981 special election, from 2003 to 2023, was the second ranking House Democrat behind Rep. Nancy Pelosi. He served as House Majority Leader from 2007-2011 and from 2019-2023, when the Democrats controlled the chamber.
Along with Pelosi, Hoyer stepped down from his longtime leadership position at the end of 2022 but remained in Congress.
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«I think all of us have been around for some time and pretty much have a feel for the timing of decisions. And I think all three of us felt that this was the time,» Hoyer told CNN at the time, as he referred to the moves by the top three House Democrats – Pelosi, Hoyer and Rep. Jim Clyburn – to step down from their leadership roles.
Hoyer has long been a major backer of the Democrats’ top issues, and during his second tenure as House Majority Leader, he played a crucial role in the passage of then-President Joe Biden’s so-called American Rescue Plan and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
Longtime Democratic Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, a former House Majority Leader, will face a primary challenge if he decides to seek re-election in 2026. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
He represents Maryland’s Democrat-dominated 5th Congressional District, which covers a region known as Southern Maryland, and includes the suburbs south and east of Washington D.C., a sliver of suburban Baltimore and Annapolis, as well as rural areas farther south.
Hoyer, who suffered a minor stroke last year, is the latest high-ranking House Democrat to face a primary challenge from a younger opponent.
Pelosi and Reps. Brad Sherman of California and Jan Schakowsky of Illinois have drawn primary challenges, with Schakowsky later announcing that she will no longer run for re-election.
The primary challenges come as Democrats are still trying to regroup following last November’s election setbacks, when the party lost control of the White House and their Senate majority, and came up short in their bid to win back the House.
The party’s base is angry and energized to push back against the sweeping and controversial moves by President Donald Trump in the four months since he returned to the White House.
Additionally, while much of that anger and energy is directed at fighting the White House and congressional Republicans, some of it is targeted at Democrats whom many in the party’s base feel aren’t vocal enough in their efforts to stymie Trump.
Concurrently, other longtime and older House Democrats in safe blue districts are facing the possibility of primary challenges.
Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg, seen here on Aug. 22, 2024 in Chicago, is pledging to support primary challenges against older House Democrats in blue districts. (Photo by DOMINIC GWINN/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
This, after newly elected Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg last month pledged to spend millions of dollars through his outside political group to back primary challenges against what he called «asleep at the wheel» House Democrats – lawmakers he argued have failed to effectively push back against Trump.
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The move by the 25-year-old Hogg, a survivor of the horrific shooting seven years ago at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in South Florida, to spend money against fellow Democrats ignited a firestorm within the party.
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Durante la campaña electoral, Elon Musk hizo malabarismos entre las drogas y el drama familiar
Reacción
Elon Musk llega al escenario para hablar en un evento cubierto del desfile de la Inauguración Presidencial en Washington, el 20 de enero de 2025. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Archivo)Un hábito de ketamina
Secretos familiares
Se pidió a Ashley St. Clair, en el centro, que mantuviera en secreto la paternidad de su hijo. Foto Jason Alpert-Wisnia/Sipa USA, via Reuters“No hay simpatía por este comportamiento”
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Elon Musk’s official role at Trump’s DOGE ends, but his political impact lingers ahead of midterms
As Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, put it, his role in steering President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has come «to an end.»
However, the president, in a social media post on Thursday night announcing that he and Musk would team up for a 1:30 p.m. ET White House news conference on Friday, teased that Musk would continue to help the Trump administration.
«This will be his last day, but not really, because he will, always, be with us, helping all the way. Elon is terrific!» he wrote.
Musk’s political impact on national politics and on next year’s midterm elections — for better or for worse — is far from over and is likely to live on well past his official departure from the Trump administration.
WHAT’S NEXT FOR DOGE AFTER ELON MUSK’S DEPARTURE
Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, announced this week that his role in steering President Donald Trump’s DOGE has come «to an end.» (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
Trump, after winning back the White House in last November’s election, created DOGE with marching orders to overhaul and downsize the federal government. Trump named Musk, the chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX and Trump’s biggest political donor in the 2024 election, to steer the organization.
«Elon Musk made the most serious attempt at reducing the size and scope of government in modern political history. It was at times chaotic but impactful,» veteran GOP strategist Ryan Williams told Fox News.
Williams predicted that Musk’s «efforts will continue to linger as a political football, but also a guide for Republicans if they’re serious about limiting the growth of the federal government.»
After returning to the White House in January, Musk and DOGE quickly swept through federal agencies, rooting out what the new administration argued was billions in wasteful federal spending. Additionally, they took a meat cleaver to the federal workforce, resulting in a massive downsizing of employees.
Nothing symbolized Musk’s controversial moves more than his brandishing of a chainsaw during a February appearance at the MAGA-dominated Conservative Political Action Conference, where he touted «how easy» it was to «save billions of dollars sometimes in… an hour.»
The moves by DOGE grabbed tons of national attention and triggered a slew of lawsuits in response. Many of DOGE’s cuts in government staffing were stymied or reversed by federal court orders.
While DOGE was originally tasked with slashing $2 trillion from the federal government’s budget, the DOGE website earlier this week said that its efforts to date had led to roughly $175 billion in savings due to asset sales, contract cancellations, fraud payment cuts, in addition to other steps to eliminate costs.
MUSK CRITICISM OF TRUMP’S ‘BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL’ FRUSTRATES SOME REPUBLICANS
Musk’s arrival in the nation’s capital came with a bang.
Thanks to a direct pipeline to the president and his powerful mouthpiece on the social media site X, Musk instantly and repeatedly made headlines with his provocative moves and the targeting of people he did not like, often to the chagrin of Trump administration officials and Republicans on Capitol Hill.
Trump repeatedly praised Musk and DOGE’s efforts.
«The vast majority of people in this country really respect and appreciate you, and this whole room can say that very strongly; you have really been a tremendous help,» the president said during a Cabinet meeting four weeks ago, when Musk announced that he would be cutting back on his time spent with DOGE and the Trump administration.
President Donald Trump, right, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, a special advisor to the president, speak to reporters near a red Model S Tesla vehicle on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., on March 11. (Pool via AP )
However, behind the scenes, there was a lot less harmony.
«People got really sick of him really quickly,» a veteran Republican strategist with ties to the administration and Capitol Hill who asked to remain anonymous to speak more freely told Fox News.
«He was fun to begin with,» the strategist noted, before adding that «people inside and around the administration and people outside» were tired of Musk «by the end, when he’s sitting in a meeting wearing multiple hats on his head.»
Additionally, Musk’s recent criticism of Trump’s sweeping «big beautiful bill,» which passed a major congressional hurdle, did not help matters.
While a slew of public opinion polls, including national surveys from Fox News, indicated that Americans like the idea of downsizing the federal government, those same surveys highlighted that the public was far from thrilled with how Musk and DOGE carried out cuts to the federal bureaucracy.
WHITE HOUSE REVEALS NEXT STEPS FOR DOGE AFTER MUSK DEPARTURE
Musk, who spent nearly $300 million in support of Trump’s 2024 White House victory, quickly became a lightning rod in the handful of off-year and special elections held early this year.
Through aligned political groups, Musk dished out roughly $20 million in battleground Wisconsin’s high-profile state Supreme Court race, in support of Trump-backed judge Brad Schimel, the conservative-leaning candidate in the election.
Musk, in a controversial move, handed out $1 million checks at a rally in Green Bay two nights ahead of the election to two Wisconsin voters who had already cast ballots in the contest and had signed a petition to stop «activist judges.»
Billionaire businessman Elon Musk arrives for a town hall wearing a cheesehead hat in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on March 30. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Musk, at the rally, donned a cheesehead hat — a foam wedge which resembles a chunk of cheese — that is traditionally worn by devout Green Bay Packers football fans in Wisconsin and across the country.
However, Schimel ended up losing by 10 points to the Democratic-aligned candidate in what was supposed to be a close contest. Musk ended up getting tagged with plenty of blame in a race that partially turned into a referendum on his efforts at DOGE.
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Democrats repeatedly made Musk the bogeyman in their messaging in Wisconsin’s election and in other contests, and they pledged to continue to target him heading into next year’s midterm elections, when Republicans will be defending their razor-thin House majority and their modest Senate majority.
«Top of mind for voters are the pocketbook issues. Democrats are going to win by highlighting the fact that Republicans are failing at lowering costs because they are too busy pushing tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy and big corporations, while making the rest of us pay for them,» Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee national press secretary Viet Shelton told Fox News.
Shelton emphasized that «Elon is, and forever will be, an instantly-recognizable manifestation of the fact that House Republicans don’t work for the American people, they work for the billionaires.»
So, were Musk’s potential political risks to Republicans behind his departure from the nation’s capitol?
A GOP strategist close to GOP lawmakers, when asked if Musk’s welcome was wearing out among congressional Republicans, said «yes to a point.»
«But I think the larger question about whether Musk and DOGE are liabilities in the midterms, I would say emphatically no,» added the strategist, who asked for anonymity to speak more freely.
The strategist noted that GOP lawmakers «who have talked about waste, fraud, and abuse, and have talked about the savings generated by DOGE, they’ve done quite well. It’s the folks who don’t want to message on it and have not put Democrats on defense, who are tired of Musk.»
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Additionally, veteran Republican strategist Matt Gorman disagrees with the Democrats’ argument about Musk’s lasting impact on the campaign trail.
«I don’t think that in any way Elon Musk will be a factor one way or another in the year-plus that we have until Election Day 2026,» Gorman, a veteran of numerous presidential and statewide campaigns, told Fox News.
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Pablo Larraín prepara una miniserie de terror basada en los relatos de Mariana Enríquez
La escritora Mariana Enríquez ha visto cómo su obra se ha expandido más allá de las páginas, llegando a escenarios, podcasts y adaptaciones cinematográficas, y ahora cuatro de sus relatos serán llevados a la pantalla en una miniserie dirigida por Pablo Larraín para Netflix. Según informó el medio chileno The Clinic, el proyecto, aún sin título oficial, se encuentra en fase de preproducción y representa una colaboración entre Chile y Argentina, con la participación de las productoras Fábula y K&S. La filmación está programada para comenzar en junio y se desarrollará entre Santiago y Buenos Aires, ciudades donde el cineasta y su equipo ya se encuentran trabajando.
La serie marca el regreso de Pablo Larraín al género del horror tras su película El Conde (2023), y su retorno al formato de series después de trabajos como Prófugos (2011) y Lisey’s Story (2021). El propio director ha definido la propuesta como una exploración del “terror íntimo”, centrada en los miedos personales y cotidianos, y alejada de los recursos tradicionales del género. La producción contará con un elenco integrado por actores chilenos y argentinos, y se extenderá hasta septiembre.
El guion de la miniserie incluye cuatro relatos de Mariana Enríquez: “Mis muertos tristes”, “Julie” y “Un lugar soleado para gente sombría”, todos ellos parte de su libro más reciente, Un lugar soleado para gente sombría (Anagrama, 2024), y “Cuando hablábamos con los muertos”, publicado originalmente en Chile en 2013 por Montacerdos. Estos cuentos abordan temáticas como la violencia, el duelo, la locura y las huellas de la dictadura, combinando elementos sobrenaturales con realidades sociales y personales.
El equipo técnico de la serie incluye a colaboradores habituales de Pablo Larraín, como Waldo Salgado en la asistencia de dirección, Sergio Armstrong en la dirección de fotografía y Eduardo Paxeco a cargo del casting. Fábula, la productora fundada por los hermanos Pablo y Juan de Dios Larraín, y K&S, responsables de títulos como Relatos salvajes (2014) y El reino (2021), lideran la coproducción. Tanto desde Fábula como desde Netflix han evitado hacer declaraciones públicas sobre el proyecto, y el anuncio oficial se espera para la segunda semana de junio.
En El Conde, estrenada en Netflix en 2023, Larraín transformó a Augusto Pinochet en un vampiro de 250 años, mezclando terror gótico y sátira política en el contexto de los 50 años del Golpe de Estado en Chile. La película recibió el premio al Mejor Guion en el Festival de Venecia y generó debate en el país. El cineasta explicó que la figura vampírica del dictador surgió de la necesidad de representar simbólicamente su impunidad y maldad.
Por su parte, la obra de Mariana Enríquez ha sido reconocida tanto en América Latina como internacionalmente. Ganadora del Premio Herralde de Novela por Nuestra parte de noche (2019) y finalista del International Booker Prize, la autora ha sido comparada con figuras como Shirley Jackson y Stephen King, aunque su estilo se distingue por abordar el terror desde una perspectiva latinoamericana, enfocada en la violencia estructural, la desigualdad y los duelos históricos. El jurado del Premio Iberoamericano de Letras José Donoso, que recibió en 2024, destacó su capacidad para utilizar el horror como herramienta para enfrentar realidades apremiantes de la región.
Algunos de los relatos de Enríquez ya han sido adaptados previamente. El largometraje La virgen de la tosquera (2025), dirigido por Laura Casabé, combina dos de sus cuentos y debutó en el Festival de Sundance. Su primera novela, Bajar es lo peor, también fue llevada al cine de manera independiente a comienzos de los años 2000. Además, su obra ha inspirado versiones teatrales, como Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego, adaptada por Manuela Infante y estrenada en el Theater Basel en Suiza en 2024, así como podcasts, adaptaciones gráficas y producciones realizadas por fanáticos. El fenómeno literario que rodea a Mariana Enríquez se refleja en la respuesta de sus lectores, quienes acuden en masa a librerías y festivales donde se presenta. En 2024, la autora presentó No traigan flores, una experiencia performática que combinó lectura en vivo, música e imágenes, y que se presentó en escenarios de Buenos Aires y en el Teatro Nescafé de las Artes en Santiago, con localidades agotadas.
Los relatos seleccionados para la miniserie de Netflix exploran diferentes facetas del horror. “Mis muertos tristes” narra la vida de una médica de sesenta años en un barrio de clase media trabajadora de Buenos Aires, quien puede ver y escuchar a los muertos. Su don la convierte en mediadora entre los vivos y una creciente presencia de espectros, principalmente jóvenes asesinados que aparecen con las marcas de sus muertes violentas. La llegada de un nuevo fantasma, producto de un crimen ignorado por la comunidad, altera el equilibrio y revela verdades ocultas.
En “Julie”, una joven argentina criada en Estados Unidos regresa a Buenos Aires debido a una enfermedad que no puede tratar en el extranjero. Su presencia en la casa familiar genera tensiones y desconcierto, ya que Julie, con un aspecto descuidado y comportamientos extraños, asegura mantener relaciones con espíritus, lo que inquieta a sus parientes. “Un lugar soleado para gente sombría” sigue a una periodista argentina que viaja a Los Ángeles para investigar la muerte de Emily Lam, una joven hallada ahogada en el tanque de agua de un hotel. Inspirada en el caso real de Elisa Lam en 2013, Mariana Enríquez fusiona el género de true crime con elementos sobrenaturales, abordando el morbo digital y la exposición del sufrimiento ajeno como espectáculo, en una línea similar a la serie Black Mirror.
El cuarto relato, “Cuando hablábamos con los muertos”, se sitúa en la posdictadura argentina y presenta a un grupo de adolescentes que realizan sesiones de espiritismo para contactar a seres queridos desaparecidos. Lo que comienza como un juego se transforma en una experiencia inquietante, marcada por apariciones y una atmósfera opresiva.La adaptación de estos relatos a la pantalla por parte de Pablo Larraín y Netflix representa un nuevo capítulo en la expansión del universo de Mariana Enríquez hacia el streaming, consolidando su posición como una de las voces más influyentes del horror contemporáneo en español.
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