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In recent months, Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) has stood apart from many of his Democratic colleagues in offering staunch support for Israel, openly praising President Donald Trump for finalizing a deal to free the hostages in Gaza and maintaining a hard line against New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani.
The government has shut down, and Washington is at a standstill. Republicans control the presidency, the Senate and the House, but they need Democratic votes to meet the 60-vote Senate threshold. Based on many conversations with both Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate, I believe most want to 1) reopen the government, and 2) address the health insurance premiums set to skyrocket on Jan. 1 if Congress doesn't act, with notifications hitting mailboxes on Nov. 1. So, what's the problem?
PERMITTING PROBLEM SOLVED? Key House committee chairs seem interested in a new bipartisan permitting proposal from moderates of the Problem Solvers Caucus that includes measures to speed the buildout of transmission lines, pipelines, and energy-generating projects of all types.
“I want to do a bipartisan broad permitting reform bill,” Energy and Commerce Chair Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) told our Josh Siegel on Thursday. Guthrie, whose committee oversees the power grid, said he planned to review the proposal.
xAI, the parent company of the social media platform X and creator of the Grok artificial intelligence chatbot, said in a letter to lawmakers earlier this month that the antisemitic and violent rants posted by the chatbot last month were the results of an “unintended update” to Grok’s code.
I have been in public service for more than 30 years, serving as mayor, county executive and now in my fifth term in Congress. Unsurprisingly, I’ve been attacked many times. My instinct is to punch back. That impulse isn’t just political—it’s human. When anyone gets hit, their natural inclination is to respond, and in Washington these days, that instinct dominates the culture. That is why Jesus’ instruction to “love your enemies” is one of his most difficult commands. But if we continue down the path of an “eye for an eye,” we will, as Gandhi said, “all end up blind.”
He shows how the party is falling short, but he has the wrong solutions.
Zohran Mamdani, the socialist who just won New York's Democratic mayoral primary, is a charismatic, smart and effective campaigner with whom I disagree. His campaign tapped into the same economic discontent that powered Donald Trump's rise, and his victory should serve as a loud wake-up call for the Democratic Party.
The New York Democrat says that the parties should work together on immigration policy.
Rep. Tom Suozzi is a longtime Democrat. But that doesn’t mean he’s solely focused on President Donald Trump. He thinks his party needs to lean in on messaging for the future, not just on opposing the current president.
The New York Democrat is doing things the ‘Suozzi way’ in a district Donald Trump carried
Tom Suozzi is worried about his party.
“The Democratic brand is broken on a national level,” the New Yorker said recently. “What do Democrats stand for? People don’t really know.”
The answer, in Suozzi’s mind, is to focus on economic issues and to relentlessly pitch themselves to voters. “We have to get back to the basic message of rebuilding the middle class in America,” he said.
