The nation’s capital saw several partisan collisions on Thursday as party divides seemed to stretch Republicans and Democrats to a breaking point.
While across-the-aisle bickering is not unusual in the Capitol, Thursday’s scrums, which began with testy hearings involving Democratic governors and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, intensified with Sen. Alex Padilla’s (D-CA) detainment after interrupting a homeland security briefing in Los Angeles.
Here’s a breakdown of a chaotic day in Congress.
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Padilla detained and aftermath
As Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was speaking at a press conference in Los Angeles, video shows Padilla approaching the secretary, with security already wrestling with the senator as he began, “Madam Secretary, I want to know why you insist on exaggerating and embellishing—” before being pushed back toward the exit.
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