Hello, readers. Welcome back to On Politics. Zach Schermele here, USA TODAY's congressional correspondent. It's Thursday, and we're learning more about why the new White House press secretary may not have the legal credentials it seemed she did. More on that later.
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Deporting a member of Congress? |
The Trump administration's probe into Rep. Ilhan Omar is aimed at revoking her American citizenship and deporting her if investigators can prove that she or her relatives lied to immigration authorities when she became a citizen, two people familiar with the matter tell me and my colleague María Luisa Paúl. Those would be extraordinary steps – ones that have never been taken before against a sitting member of Congress. And it's all unfolding fewer than three weeks before Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, faces voters in an election she's likely to win easily. She and her spokespeople are saying the endeavor has "no basis in law" and are calling the whole ordeal an "authoritarian move to silence an opponent right before an election." Read more about the situation here.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Deputy Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, listens to other members of the CPC at a press conference at the U.S. Capitol on January 13, 2026 in Washington, DC.
Heather Diehl, Getty Images
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Guns, F-bombs, fortune cookies |
A single mom who shot a home intruder. A pet alpaca. Chicago voters throwing around profanities. This cycle's campaign ads are fluffy, funny and profane, as our Jay Stahl reports . Political spending during the 2025-26 election season has already surpassed $10 billion, exceeding the total ad spending in both the 2019-2020 and 2021-2022 election cycles, according to AdImpact Politics, an ad intelligence firm.
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New White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia has long described herself as a lawyer, but she does not have a law license after failing the California bar exam, a source familiar with her background tells my colleagues. Read more from them here.
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That's all from me for this week, folks. Until Monday...
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Questions? Comments? Tips? Reach me, like I said earlier, at zschermele@usatoday.com or on Signal @zachschermele.02.
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Republican Ashley Hinson, running for Iowa's U.S. Senate seat, pledged to be President Donald Trump's "top ally" but says she can work "across the aisle."
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Trump directed the Justice Department to pursue the death penalty when someone kills a firefighter.
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