Voters in Virginia approve redistricting plan backed by Democrats

A federal judged today dismissed FBI Director Kash Patel's lawsuit that argued Frank Figliuzzi, a former senior national security and intelligence analyst for MS NOW, defamed him on air by making claims that he was spending too much time partying.

Patel sued after Figliuzzi made a comment about Patel's behavior on MS NOW’s "Morning Joe" last year, saying that “reportedly, he’s been visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the seventh floor of the Hoover building."

U.S. District Judge George Hanks ruled against Patel, writing that "Figliuzzi’s statement, when taken in context, cannot have been perceived by a person of ordinary intelligence as stating actual facts about Patel."

“A person of reasonable intelligence and learning would not have taken his statement literally: that Dir. Patel has actually spent more hours physically in a nightclub than he has spent physically in his office building," Hanks continued. "By saying that Patel spent 'far more' time at nightclubs than his office, Figliuzzi delivered his answer 'in an exaggerated, provocative and amusing way,' employing rhetorical hyperbole.”

Trump swiped at some members of the conservative majority on the Supreme Court in a Truth Social post tonight about recent cases before the high court.

“Certain Republican Appointees let the Democrats push them around, always wanting to be popular, politically correct, or even worse, wanting to show how ‘independent’ they are, with very little loyalty to the man who appointed them or, more importantly, the ideology from which they came to be Nominated and Confirmed,” Trump wrote, without naming any of the justices.

He then talked about birthright citizenship and tariffs, two issues the Supreme Court has taken up in the past year. The court struck down most of Trump’s tariffs in February, and appeared skeptical of the president’s attempts to limit birthright citizenship during oral arguments earlier this month, which Trump attended.

“I put certain people on the United States Supreme Court who totally misrepresented who they were, and the true ideology for which they stand!” Trump added.

Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., struck a defiant tone today in saying he has no plans to resign over a House Ethics Committee investigation and bipartisan pressure for him to leave Congress.

“If someone can give me a good reason, I’d be more than happy to listen to it. But until we can do that, absolutely not, no — I don’t plan to resign. We’re going to seek re-election,” he told reporters at the Capitol.

Mills said he is complying with the Ethics Committee’s probe and has turned over documents, but that he has no sense of whether the panel is close to wrapping up the investigation it began in November.

“Anything they’ve asked of us, we’ve complied,” he said. “Why not let the investigating body and the Ethics Committee to be able to do their jobs? And so we comply. We’re very happy to see what the outcome is.”

Read the full story here.

With three members resigning over the last seven days, the House has matched its 1857 record for the most members quitting in a single week.

Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., resigned today, joining former Reps. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., and Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, in departing early as they all faced ethics investigations and calls to be expelled.

The last time three members of the House resigned in a single week was February 1857, according to an NBC News review of House records.

That year saw New York Congressmen William Gilbert, Orsamus Matteson and Francis Edwards resign as they all faced the threat of expulsion over corruption allegations involving their support of legislation in exchange for money.

The Senate voted 52-46, along party lines, to move forward with a budget resolution that would lay the groundwork for a bill to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol through the end of Trump’s presidency.

The vote was on whether to proceed to the budget resolution, which only requires a simple majority for final passage, and starts up to 50 hours of debate which is evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats. Republicans are not expected to use much of their time.

At the end of the debate, senators will be allowed to offer unlimited amendments in what's become known as a vote-a-rama, which will culminate in passage of the budget resolution. The vote-a-rama could happen as soon as tomorrow night.

See the latest results here.

As it became clear to Republicans that Virginia's redistricting referendum was shaping up to be closer than expected, several operatives were dispatched in the final days of the race to conservative areas in the state where they felt they hadn’t reached voters adequately.

For example, one GOP operative in the state spent last night traveling through counties on the state’s Eastern Shore, delivering "no" campaign signs and literature. One of the counties was Accomack County, which the Republican candidate for governor won last year by 9 points and Trump won in the 2024 election by 13 points.

The late push in rural GOP strongholds underscores the criticism from some Republicans that they waited too long to treat the race as truly competitive. One month ago, the "yes" side had a 17-1 spending advantage on the airwaves, which the "no" side was able to bring down to 3-1 by Election Day.

In Louisa County, "no" is winning 66% to 34% with nearly all its vote counted — around 5 points better than Trump's performance in November 2024. We are seeing this type of shift in similar rural Republican counties, which suggest this race will be closer than the 2024 presidential race.

Loudoun County has counted more than 90% of its expected vote. The results currently show "yes" winning 61%-39% there, a margin that is around 6 points better than how then-Vice President Kamala Harris performed in November 2024.

While "yes" is overperforming in this large suburban county, we also see "no" overperforming in some of the small Republican counties that are nearly complete.

Voters arrive at a polling location in Virginia, on Tuesday. Win McNamee / Getty Images file

The swing areas of Virginia will be key to the results. Sixteen of Virginia’s 139 counties and independent cities voted both for Democrat Abigail Spanberger and Republican Glenn Youngkin in the last two gubernatorial elections.

These localities vary in size, geography and demographics, but their results collectively will provide a valuable gauge tonight. Given that Youngkin’s statewide margin was narrow (2 points), they represent the kinds of politically marginal areas that are close to a must-win for any statewide Republican campaign effort.

Reinforcing this point is what happened in last year’s attorney general election, in which Democrat Jay Jones significantly underperformed Spanberger because of a scandal surrounding violent text messages he had sent. Even amid that controversy, Jones still narrowly carried 10 of these 16 localities. Overall, he won his election by 6 points, compared with 15 for Spanberger. So if the “no” side isn’t sweeping all of these places tonight, or coming very close to it, then the referendum will probably pass.

Voters cast their ballots in a special election in Arlington, Va., on Tuesday.  Valerie Plesch / Bloomberg via Getty Images

Voting is now concluding in Virginia, as the state considers a constitutional amendment that would allow Democrats to bypass the state redistricting commission and install a new, heavily blue-leaning congressional map.

Follow live results here

Voter turnout in the Virginia redistricting election is tracking lower than during the 2025 gubernatorial election, according to Election Day data shared with the NBC News Decision Desk by local officials in 86 of Virginia’s 133 counties and cities.

The NBC News Decision Desk estimates overall voter turnout — including people who voted by mail, voted early or have voted so far today on Election Day — to be around 90% of the number of people who had voted at a similar time on Election Day in November 2025. Democrat Abigail Spanberger won the governorship by 15 percentage points in that election.

Today, turnout in jurisdictions that have traditionally supported Democrats is lagging more than in places that have traditionally supported Republicans.

In communities that have traditionally supported Democrats, total voter turnout is around 87% of the number of people who voted in 2025 general election, whereas turnout in Republican supporting jurisdictions is around 96% of the 2025 general election vote.

The largest shift has been reported in Alexandria City, which is about 21% lower than the same time during the gubernatorial election. In select communities — including Botetourt County and Tazewell County, which are more Republican-leaning — turnout for today’s election is in line or slightly higher than the same point in the day of the gubernatorial election in November.

Voter turnout is down compared to the November 2025 election in Virginia, especially in bluer areas. Andrew Arenge / NBC News Decision Desk

Trump recognized seven NCAA championship-winning teams during an event at the White House today, touting his election performance in the states that some of the university teams hail from.

The president first celebrated the 2025 NCAA men's golf champions from Oklahoma State University, congratulating the players and adding, "I won Oklahoma, 77 out of 77 counties."

Trump also recognized the women's tennis team from the University of Georgia, who won the 2025 NCAA title.

"All I can say is, go Bulldogs," Trump said. "It's a great state, I love that state. I did very well there too, in the election. You know, I only like the states that I win, so it's one of those."

The GOP Senate primary in Georgia is heating up one month before voters head to the polls, with Rep. Buddy Carter launching the first attack ad of the race, former football coach Derek Dooley hitting the airwaves and Rep. Mike Collins touting his fundraising.

The three Republicans are vying to take on Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff, a top GOP target as the party looks to expand its 53-47 majority in the Senate. With three major candidates dividing the May 19 primary vote, and Trump so far declining to pick a favorite, the race is expected to head to a June 16 runoff.

So far, Carter’s campaign has dominated the airwaves, spending $5.5 million in ads through the primary, according to the ad-tracking firm AdImpact. Dooley has spent $519,000, while Collins has spent $170,000, largely on digital ads.

Carter’s latest ad, which launched yesterday, knocks Collins as he faces an Ethics Committee investigation over allegations of misusing congressional funds by paying his former chief of staff for campaign work and by employing that aide’s girlfriend, who did not do work for the office.

Read the full story here.

In February, Kennedy publicly backed Trump’s executive order to ensure a continued supply of glyphosate-based herbicides in the U.S.

However, he told Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, today that he wasn’t happy about the policy.

“I was very clear with the President about my own displeasure with the executive order. The President felt it was necessary for national security reasons,” Kennedy said.

Kennedy told Schatz that the weed killer, which has been found in foods such as cereal and pasta, causes cancer and is not healthy for people to consume. The evidence itself is mixed. Numerous lawsuits have claimed that patients' non-Hodgkin lymphoma is linked to glyphosate exposure.

Kennedy said HHS hopes to move forward with a controversial trial looking at hepatitis B vaccinations in newborns in Guinea-Bissau, which intends to start administering the birth dose in 2028. HHS has expressed an interest in conducting a randomized controlled trial there, wherein some newborns would receive the hepatitis B vaccine and others would get a placebo.

Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, expressed concerns about withholding a vaccine from that placebo group.

“We may disagree about the efficacy of certain vaccines, but we have all agreed, all of us, that you do not withhold medicine, especially from children,” Schatz said.

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, who said his father was a smoker and died of lung cancer, questioned the FDA’s authorization of the marketing of Juul e-cigarettes.

Kennedy said that career scientists made the decision based on whether vaping would reduce tobacco use.

“They have to make sure, not that that drug is safe and effective for a particular individual — that it’s better for society as a whole,” Kennedy said.

“I want smokers to quit, too,” Durbin responded. “In the meantime, we can’t risk a new wave of children addicted to this poison.”

Kennedy said his agency intends to mandate front-of-package labels on food products that indicate how healthy they are. 

“It will be a very simple label, something like they use across Latin America very, very successfully — red light, green light, yellow light,” Kennedy said. “People will be able to see the green light, and that’s food that’s good for you.”

Kennedy recently overhauled the federal dietary guidelines to recommend eliminating ultra-processed foods, which have excess sugar and other additives. He said his department has come up with a formal definition of ultra-processed foods, but other agencies still need to review and approve it. 

Once that definition is finalized, he said, his agency will move to require front-of-package labels.

The move to require front-of-package labeling was proposed under the Biden administration.

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced today that the U.S. military will no longer require all American troops to get the flu vaccine, citing “medical autonomy” and religious freedom.

“The notion that a flu vaccine must be mandatory for every service member, everywhere, in every circumstance at all times is just overly broad and not rational,” Hegseth said in a video posted on social media.

Read the full story here.

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, cited a recent Washington Post report that said there was a 31% drop in the number of projects funded last year that included the word "women."

"The administration’s emphasis on canceling diversity-related grants has resulted in less research aimed at women’s health," Collins said, adding, "It is well established that disparities in women’s health exist."

Collins expressed concern about the reduction in these grants and studies despite the health disparities for women, including the "disproportionate burden" of Alzheimer's disease and diabetes, and asked Kennedy how HHS is going to address them.

Shauni Kerkhoff, a former Capitol Police officer who served on Jan. 6, 2021, and now works campus security for the CIA, has sued Blaze Media and two former writers for the conservative news site, The Blaze, over a story that suggested she planted the pipe bombs outside the RNC and DNC on the night before the Capitol attack.

One of the defendants, Steve Baker, was charged in connection with the Capitol attack and pleaded guilty in November 2024, and his sentencing was pending when Trump mass pardoned Jan. 6 defendants.

Kennedy is now testifying before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee, his second hearing of the day.

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson expressed regret over supporting Trump, saying in a video released yesterday that he would “be tormented by it for a long time” and apologized for “misleading” people.

“I do think it’s like a moment to wrestle with our own consciences,” Carlson said on “The Tucker Carlson Show,” referring to the role of his and others’ support for Trump. “You know, we’ll be tormented by it for a long time. I will be, and I want to say I’m sorry for misleading people. It was not intentional.”

Carlson, once a staunch supporter of the president, pointed in the video to having campaigned for Trump, saying, “We’re implicated in this for sure.”

Read the full story here.

Under Florida law, Cherfilus-McCormick's resignation should trigger a special election but Gov. Ron DeSantis appears to have leeway as to when he could call it for it (the statute asks him to “consider” upcoming election days but doesn’t require it).

And while Florida is considering redrawing its congressional maps for the regularly scheduled congressional elections, this special election (in a very Democratic district) would be held under the current lines. 

Embattled Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., resigned this afternoon, moments before the House Ethics Committee was set to consider whether to recommend she be expelled from Congress.

Last month, the Ethics panel found her guilty of 25 ethics violations related to allegations she stole federal relief funds and used some of the money to fund her political campaign.

“I will not stand by and pretend that this has been anything other than a witch hunt. I simply cannot stand by and allow my due process rights to be trampled on, and my good name to be tarnished,” Cherfilus-McCormick said of the Ethics process in a statement posted on X.

She is the third House member to resign this month, following Eric Swalwell and Tony Gonzales.

Read the full story here.

WASHINGTON — The head of the Southern Poverty Law Center said today that the civil rights organization was being “targeted” by the Trump administration with a criminal investigation that appeared to focus on the group’s use of confidential informants that gathered evidence on “extremely violent groups.”

Bryan Fair, the interim chief executive of the group, said in a video that the 55-year-old organization was facing a “serious” threat: “a criminal investigation and possible charges against the SPLC or some of our employees.”

Read the full story here.

In the civil case over Trump’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta overnight asked Trump’ personal attorneys to meet with attorneys for the plaintiffs in this case — the NAACP and several House members — to discuss why the discovery should not proceed against the sitting president.

This comes weeks after Mehta found that Donald Trump is not immune from civil litigation over his speech on the Ellipse, most of his contacts with state and local officials in the aftermath of the 2020 election, and nearly every tweet from his @realDonaldTrump Twitter account.

In the brief order overnight, Mehta wrote, “President Trump shall show cause by April 29, 2026, why merits discovery should not proceed against him.”

The House Energy and Commerce health subcommittee has adjourned its hearing with Kennedy. He will testify before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee this afternoon.

Sen. Angela Alsobrooks, D-Md., pressed Warsh on whether he'd commit to defending Fed governor Lisa Cook, whose attempted firing by Trump is now before the Supreme Court.

"It's inappropriate for me to weigh in on that" since Trump's authority to fire her is now being decided by the high court, Warsh said.

"The Fed should stay in its lane," he said, adding he would abide by whatever the Supreme Court rules. Asked his position on whether it would be appropriate for Powell to stay on as acting Fed chair if the confirmation process goes past the end of his term, Warsh again declined to give an opinion, saying that was outside his area of expertise.

The last senator to question Warsh was Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, who told him he was "going to ruin the suspense for everybody. You're going to be confirmed. You're going to be the Federal rReserve chairman and most importantly, you're going to do an incredible job."

Vice President JD Vance will head to the White House today for meetings on what might happen next in the talks in Pakistan on the Iran war, a White House official said.

Trump and the White House indicated Vance would be leading the U.S. delegation to Pakistan, although the timing was unclear. At one point yesterday, Trump implied that Vance was already on his way, which was not the case. 

It is not clear when he will depart Washington for Islamabad. The timing remains fluid, the White House official emphasized.

It is also unclear when the two-week ceasefire technically expires. Trump said it ends tomorrow evening ET, but Pakistan has said it believes the truce ends at 4:50 a.m. PST (Pakistan Standard Time) tomorrow, which would mean 7:50 p.m. ET today. NBC News has reached out to the White House to clarify the discrepancy.

Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, asked Kennedy if he would support oral contraceptives being offered over the counter.

"Yes," Kennedy said. The congresswoman said she has a bill that would provide that access.

The Food and Drug Administration approved the first oral contraceptive over the counter in July 2023. States, however, can try to find ways to limit or broaden access.

In response to Rep. Nanette Barragán, D-Calif., asking if women are entitled to birth control, Kennedy said they are, but then she asked why the Trump administration has cut funding to Title X.

"I am sorry that I can’t talk about that because that case is under litigation," he said.

Title X at the Department of Health and Human Services provides grant funding for family planning and preventive health services.

Throughout the war with Iran, White House messaging has been largely shaped by impromptu phone conversations between Trump and reporters. On most days since the war began Feb. 28, Trump has answered calls from reporters at 40 different news organizations, based on NBC News’ analysis. 

The spontaneous exchanges have often driven the latest news headlines, garnered major market reactions and provided insight into the president’s thinking on the war. At the same time, Trump has spread untrue and unfounded claims through these conversions, widely nicknamed “phoners.”

The statistics below are based on published reporting from phone calls that NBC News is aware of. The full list of calls was cross-referenced with the publicly available archival database Fact Base. 

Fed chair nominee Warsh said at his Senate confirmation hearing that Trump "never once asked me to commit to any particular interest rate decision, period, and nor would I ever agree to do so if he had."

This morning, Trump was asked during a CNBC interview if he would be disappointed if Warsh did not cut rates as soon as he joined the Fed.

"I would," Trump said.

Asked about that comment, Warsh told senators "I do" commit to make only independent decisions about monetary policy if confirmed.

Trump has pushed for lower interest rates on a continual basis since being elected again in 2024.

Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., criticized Kennedy for the administration's decision to rescind a rule that instituted a minimum staffing in nursing homes, saying the rule would have saved lives.

"Your agency rescinded a rule implementing a minimum staffing standard in nursing homes," she said. "This rule would have saved lives, improved care and strengthened the nursing home workforce."

Kennedy argued that the rule was putting thousands of nursing homes in rural areas out of business because they could not meet the federal standard.

In December, HHS moved to repeal minimum staffing standards for long-term care facilities. Earlier last year, a district judge rejected a Biden-era policy to increase staffing at long-term care facilities that participate in Medicaid or Medicare.

Tillis calls for Powell investigation to be 'taken down' at hearing for next Fed chair

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Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., blasted the investigation into Fed Chair Jerome Powell by Trump's U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro.

Tillis, who is currently blocking Warsh’s confirmation to the Fed until the Justice Department drops or ends the probe, called it a "bogus investigation."

Referring to cost overruns in the renovation of the Federal Reserve headquarters, Tillis added that such overruns are a regular occurrence with construction projects in the federal government and do not mean that wrongdoing has occurred.

"If we put everybody in prison in federal government that had had a budget go over, we'd have to reserve an area roughly the size of Texas for a penal colony," Tillis said.

Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-Calif., criticized Kennedy over the CDC's changes to the childhood vaccine schedule earlier this year.

"What you have demonstrated throughout your entire time as secretary is the dismantling of the childhood vaccination programs that has been detrimental to our nation and puts our nation at risk of getting more communicable diseases, which has been shown through the flu, through the measles, those cases have been rising," said Ruiz, a former emergency physician.

Kennedy said he's "never been anti-vax" and said he's allocating $1 billion to vaccine research at the National Institutes of Health right now. "If I was anti-vax, I wouldn’t be doing that," he said. "I don’t believe all vaccines are bad. I’ve never said that. What I’ve said is they should be safety tested."

Sen. Warren says Kevin Warsh could be Trump's 'sock puppet' if confirmed

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Warsh sidestepped questions from Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., about $100 million in assets that he has not publicly disclosed.

After he declined to answer, Warren asked him if the money had any ties to the Trump family, foreign governments or Jeffrey Epstein. Warsh did not answer those questions either, and said he had an agreement with the government ethics office to divest his assets after he's confirmed, and is in compliance with ethics rules.

Asked if he believed that Trump lost the 2020 election, Warsh again sidestepped the question, but said he would be independent. Asked for any difference he has with the president at all, Warsh said he disagreed with Trump's assertion that he's "out of central casting." "Central casting I’d look older, grayer and show up here with a cigar of sorts," he said.

"Quite adorable," a stone-faced Warren responded.

The hearing for Trump's Federal Reserve chair nominee, Kevin Warsh, is getting underway.

In Warsh's opening statement, he alluded to near-constant attacks by Trump and his top allies against the central bank and its chair, Jerome Powell, for not lowering interest rates more quickly.

"Monetary policymakers must act in the nation's interest," he said.

He added, "I do not believe that independence of monetary policy is threatened when elected officials state their views." He added that "the Fed must stay in its lane."

His comments come amid an unprecedented criminal investigation into Powell and the central bank by the Justice Department, which has been blocked so far by a federal judge.

Kevin Warsh arrives at his confirmation hearing today. Francis Chung / Politico via AP

One of the first questions from Rep. Diana Harshbarger, R-Tenn., was about Kennedy's stance on vaccines.

Kennedy defended his response to measles outbreaks, saying that they began before he was in office and that people not getting vaccinated also predated his time in office. He added that Canada and several other countries have experienced worse outbreaks per capita, suggesting the U.S. response has been more effective than those in other nations.

Kennedy pointed to the early outbreak in the Mennonite population and said that families of children who died alleged to him that when they arrived at a hospital, they were not offered "real" treatment but were shamed instead.

"Both of them believe that if their children had been properly treated, they would have lived," Kennedy said.

Doctors consider measles vaccines to be safe and effective. NBC News has previously reported that there have been more than 1,700 measles cases in the U.S. so far this year, making it one of the two worst for measles in the country since 2000.

The House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing featuring Kennedy's testimony has begun.

The hearing centers on the Trump administration's budget request for fiscal year 2027, and Kennedy is likely to face questions on other subjects, such as his vaccine stances and overhaul of federal health agencies.

This afternoon, Kennedy will have another hearing in the Senate. He testified before lawmakers last week as well.

Former Presidents Joe Biden, Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton are sharing a message of optimism with Americans as the nation approaches its 250th anniversary.

The four presidents each spoke individually with Jenna Bush Hager in a “TODAY” exclusive today in which they expressed their hope for the future and affirmed the principles they believe are a bedrock of American government and civic life.

Read the full story here.

Polls close in Virginia at 7:00 p.m. ET.

If the amendment passes, it would pave the way for Democrats to pick up as many as four of the five seats currently held by Republicans in this fall’s midterm elections, when control of the narrowly divided House is up for grabs. 

Currently, the Virginia delegation is split between six Democrats and five Republicans. But under the new map, Democrats would be favored to win up to 10 seats, while Republicans would be favored to win one. 

Trump defended the Justice Department investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and the renovation of the agency's D.C. headquarters.

In a phone interview on CNBC this morning, Trump was asked repeatedly if he would support the DOJ dropping the probe if the Senate Banking Committee could investigate the issues instead.

Trump, however, fiercely defended the probe. "We have to find out why a small building cost close to $4 billion. It's not finished, by the way," he said.

Tillis, who's retiring from Congress at the end of this year, has said he would continue blocking Warsh as long as the DOJ investigation continues.

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has resigned according to two sources with knowledge of the decision, making her the third Cabinet member to depart during Trump’s second term.

Chavez-DeRemer had been facing a probe from the Labor Department’s inspector general for potential misconduct. That investigation has already resulted in multiple of her top staffers being placed on administrative leave and then ultimately leaving their posts.

Read the full story here.

Virginia voters today will decide the fate of a constitutional amendment that would pave the way for a new congressional map designed to allow Democrats to pick up as many as four seats in this year’s midterm elections.

The special election marks the latest fight in the mid-decade redistricting war that has unfolded across the country as both parties vie for control of the narrowly divided House. Under the proposed map in Virginia, Democrats would be in position to hold up to 10 of the state’s 11 districts, rather than the current six.

Read the full story here.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will testify at a House Energy and Commerce hearing this morning and a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing this afternoon.

Kennedy will testify on the Trump administration's budget request for HHS and is likely to face questions about his vaccine stances and personnel decisions.

Kennedy faced criticism from Democratic lawmakers at a pair of House hearings last week over his vaccine policies and overhaul of federal health agencies. Kennedy was pressed on his push to make changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, his handling of measles outbreaks and staffing cuts across the department.