We’re trying something new here on Hold These Truths: a weekly SITREP (Situation Report) on news of the day with real time insights into what’s happening in Congress, the country, and the world. This will now be your one stop shop for real news.

• Matt Gaetz ethics report
• AOC loses ranking member of Oversight Committee
• The Continuing Resolution
• Rethinking the budget process
• Unknowns in Syria
• Corruption in China’s military
• Assassinations in Moscow
• Salt Typhoon (not a James Bond movie)
• DOE’s ban on gas exports
• Trans activists lose their institutional support