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Congress melts down: Members unleash personal attacks after weeks of shutdown drama

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Let’s face it: Politics is personal. And you cannot separate the two on Capitol Hill.
Lawmakers may not have missed legislating during the government shutdown. But they sure missed attacking one another.
Yes, both chambers of Congress voted to reopen the government. That’s legislating. There were certainly a few bills of consequence on the House and Senate floors in September before the shutdown.
There was a little bit in the Senate, which remained in session during the shutdown. There was the adoption of the measure to compel the release of the Epstein files.
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But prior to that, one must hustle all the way back to the Senate’s approval of the «big, beautiful bill» in June and the House in early July — plus the plan to defund foreign programs and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — to find Congress really engaging in legislation of consequence in 2025.
So, what has the House of Representatives resorted to since it’s been back in session? Members taking on members. Even fellow lawmakers of their own party.
It’s gotten personal. And you don’t even have to be a voting member of the House to face the wrath of your colleagues.
There was an effort by Republicans to censure the non-voting Democratic member from the U.S. Virgin Islands to Congress, Del. Stacey Plaskett, for exchanging messages with Epstein in preparation for President Donald Trump’s first impeachment in 2019.
Trump loyalists in the House would find revenge on Paskett sweeter than Caribbean sugar cane. Plaskett served as one of the House’s impeachment «managers,» prosecuting the House’s second impeachment case of Trump before the Senate in early 2021.
Democratic Rep. Stacey Plaskett, right, was revealed to have texted Jeffrey Epstein during a 2019 congressional hearing. (Rick Friedman/Rick Friedman Photography/Corbis via Getty Images; Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
The measure to rebuke Plaskett failed. And, as a result, Democrats refrained from a similar censure effort for Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla.
That said, Democrats and some Republicans want to discipline Mills for two alleged transgressions. Democrats prepped a resolution in September to censure Mills for allegedly harassing and assaulting an ex-girlfriend in Washington, D.C.
Mills contends he did nothing wrong.
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., wants to censure Mills now. Mills provided a key vote earlier in 2025 to block the censure of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., over her remarks following the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Some lawmakers also want House discipline for Mace after authorities claim she cursed and berated TSA workers and other employees at the Charleston, South Carolina, airport recently.

Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez forced a vote on rebuking fellow House Democratic Rep. Jesus «Chuy» Garcia. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images; Jonathan Gibby/Getty Images)
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash., is one of the most centrist members in the House. She prepped a rebuke of Rep. Chuy Garcia, D-Ill., in November.
Garcia is retiring at the end of his term in early 2027. He filed for re-election but then decided at the last moment to step aside.
The Illinois Democrat cited family-related health reasons and his family’s recent adoption of an 8-year-old boy. However, the only person who apparently knew about the Congressman’s plans was Patty Garcia, his chief of staff.
Chuy Garcia is not related to Patty Garcia. However, she filed paperwork to run for the House seat with just moments to spare before the deadline. It turns out that Patty Garcia is the only one to file for the seat. That means Patty Garcia is practically a shoo-in for victory in the heavily Democratic seat.
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The audacious move by Patty Garcia and Chuy Garcia gave critics fodder to chew on. They believed that the outgoing congressman pre-baked the ballot, delivering a political Walter Payton stiff-arm that blocked anyone else from running except his chief of staff.
Old-style Chicago machine politics haven’t been this brutal in the Windy City since they originally brewed Old Style beer.
Gluesenkamp Perez and others excoriated the sitting congressman, voting 236-183 to sanction him. Including Gluesenkamp Perez, 23 Democrats voted with all Republicans to dock Chuy Garcia.
So, it’s likely that voters will elect Patty Garcia as congresswoman-elect in the fall of 2026. But after the vote to sanction her old boss, winds blowing off of Lake Michigan would provide a warmer welcome for Patty Garcia to Capitol Hill when she prospectively takes office in January 2027.
Now there’s a move to sanction Rep. Shelia Cherfilus-McCormick D-Fla., after she was indicted for allegedly stealing $5 million in COVID-related health aid.
Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., prepped a resolution to expel Cherfilus-McCormick even though there’s been no trial. Cherfilus-McCormick says the indictment is a sham.

Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick was indicted by a Miami grand jury Nov. 18, 2025, for allegedly stealing $5 million in FEMA funds, according to the Department of Justice. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images)
And we haven’t even discussed efforts earlier in 2025 to expel Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., after she was charged with allegedly assaulting ICE agents at a detention center in Newark, New Jersey, in the spring. McIver continues to serve and pleaded not guilty.
This may only get worse.
Sens. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich.; Mark Kelly, D-Ariz.; and Reps. Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa;, Chris Deluzio, D-Pa.; Jason Crow, D-Colo.; and Maggie Goodlander, D-N.H., faced criticism over a video in which they instructed service members to defy illegal orders.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has now launched an investigation into Kelly and threatened to recall the former astronaut to active duty to face military discipline.
And it’s not just member on member. The president also excoriated his arch-nemesis on the Republican side of the aisle, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., for getting married 16 months after the congressman’s first wife, Rhonda, died.

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and President Donald Trump (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
«Did Thomas Massie, sometimes referred to as Rand Paul Jr., because of the fact that he always votes against the Republican Party, get married already??? Boy, that was quick!» Trump posted to Truth Social in November. «Anyway, have a great life Thomas and (?). His wife will soon find out that she’s stuck with a LOSER!»
It’s now officially the holiday season. And few on Capitol Hill are truly extending tidings of good cheer to their congressional colleagues. It surely can’t get any worse, can it?
Well, we’re not even halfway through the 119th Congress. And after lengthy recesses in July, all of August, a portion of September — and for the House, all of October and some of November — lawmakers are just making up for lost time. The recriminations will keep coming.
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Politicians have decided to make it personal. It’s easier to attack one another and score political points than legislate.
It’s not practical politics. Lawmakers just prefer personal politics.
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String of attacks connected to naturalized citizens raises national security questions

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The United States is left vulnerable even by its own naturalized U.S. citizens from hostile foreign lands, proving a free country can be exposed to security risks by the very freedoms the Constitution endows, an expert warned on Fox News.
«That’s partially because of legal reasons: They can’t just monitor constitutionally protected free speech and opinions after they become a naturalized citizen, indefinitely, just to keep tabs on them,» Mauro Institute president Ryan Mauro told Fox News on Saturday.
«They legally can’t do it, and they also don’t have the resources to do it.»
Just this month alone, the U.S. has experienced four attacks with ties to naturalized citizenship.
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The U.S. has seen four attacks in recent weeks in connection to naturalized citizens. (Fox News)
- March 1 – Austin, Texas, bar shooting
- March 7 – New York City attempted bombing (parents of suspects were naturalized citizens)
- March 12 – Old Dominion University shooting
- March 12 – West Bloomfield, Michigan, synagogue attack
«There’s a bit of a jihad olympics going on, which is where you have the Sunni radicals like ISIS competing with the Shiite radicals of the Iranian regime because they need attention in order to survive and in order settle the argument of who has Allah’s blessing so that they can trigger the apocalypse,» Mauro said.

Surveillance footage shows Ayman Mohamad Ghazali inside a Phantom Fireworks store in Livonia, Michigan, where he purchased more than $2,000 worth of fireworks days before the synagogue attack on March 12. (Obtained by NYPost)
«That’s what they both want to do,» Mauro said.
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Mohamed Bailor Jalloh was identified as the shooter at Old Dominion University on Thursday, March 12. (AP Photo)
The process of citizenship revocation has been a hotly debated topic during the second Trump administration, and the spate of four terror attacks amid the latest Israel-U.S. war on Iran may increase scrutiny on the vetting process.
«A person is subject to revocation of naturalization if the person becomes a member of, or affiliated with, the Communist party, other totalitarian party, or terrorist organization within five years of his or her naturalization,» the U.S. Grounds for Revocation of Naturalization reads.
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Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi lived in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Pictured is Ibrahim Kayumi family’s home. (U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York and Greg Wehner for Fox News Digital)
Mauro’s institute is not constrained by federal law in vetting potential terrorist ideology of naturalized citizens like the Justice Department is, he noted.
«That’s why I personally have set up a civilian intelligence team that does do that type of thing,» Mauro said. «And why we’ve been so successful is because whereas the government has to be very careful not to launch investigations based off of just a mere suspicion or an unpopular opinion, civilians are free to comb through social media and just find people and report them.»
U.S. freedoms even protect suspected terrorists, he added.
«If they do come across someone who is expressing support for a terrorist organization, it still gets tricky,» he lamented. «You would think, oh, at that point you can revoke it and just get rid of the people because that would make sense, but the question is membership and affiliation.

The Austin, Texas, bar shooter was an Iran sympathizer and believed to have conducted a terrorist attack in the U.S. to retaliate after Israel killed the Iranian supreme leader. (KTBC)
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«I mean, there’ll be a lot of headaches just over those words. At what point does it go from, oh, I agree with them, versus actually being affiliated with them as like a unit?»
Fox News Digital reached out to the State Department, the FBI and multiple agencies within the Department of Homeland Security for comment on this story. The State Department redirected us to the latter two federal departments.
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Iran arrests dozens accused of spying for Israel in new internal crackdown

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Iranian authorities say they have arrested dozens of people accused of spying for Israel across several provinces, according to state media reports over the weekend.
Fars, a news agency affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), reported Sunday the West Azerbaijan prosecutor’s office had arrested 20 individuals in the northwestern city of Urmia for allegedly providing Israel with information about military, police and security sites.
On Saturday, Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence said it had arrested several «enemy operatives» across the country, including a 10-member group in Mazandaran province and another 10-member network in Khorasan Razavi province, according to Tasnim, a semi-official news agency.
Authorities said the suspects transferred the locations of military installations and economic infrastructure and shared coordinates of public places, academic institutions and research centers with Israel.
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Policemen stand on top of a patrol car during a rally supporting Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, successor to his late father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as Iran’s supreme leader, in Tehran, Iran, on March 9, 2026. (Vahid Salemi/AP)
In southern Khuzestan province, intelligence officials also reported arresting a three-person «terrorist team» accused of carrying out armed attacks against security forces and government facilities.
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Israel has relied on tips from ordinary Iranians to identify targets for strikes inside Iran, citing a senior Israeli security official.
The newspaper said information about potential targets is sent through Israeli Persian-language social media accounts and is verified by Israeli authorities before strikes are carried out.
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A woman holds an Iranian flag during the funeral and burial of Ali Shamkhani at Imamzadeh Saleh in northern Tehran, Iran, on March 14, 2026. (Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)
In a separate development, Bahraini authorities said Sunday they arrested five people accused of passing sensitive information to the IRGC and helping recruit operatives for potential attacks inside the country.
According to a statement from Bahrain’s Police Media Center, the suspects allegedly collected and transmitted coordinates and images of sensitive locations, including hotels, to the IRGC.
IRANIAN REGIME SPREADING ANTI-ISRAEL PROPAGANDA ACROSS DOZENS OF SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS: REPORT
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Officials said one suspect previously received training at IRGC camps in «trafficking persons and recruiting operatives to participate in implementing terrorist plots.»
The five detainees were referred to Bahrain’s Public Prosecution, while a sixth suspect identified in the case is believed to be a fugitive abroad.
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