{"id":71626,"date":"2026-04-14T05:55:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T10:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/house-returns-as-two-lawmakers-vow-to-resign-amid-scandals-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T05:55:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T10:55:40","slug":"house-returns-as-two-lawmakers-vow-to-resign-amid-scandals-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/house-returns-as-two-lawmakers-vow-to-resign-amid-scandals-us-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"House returns as two lawmakers vow to resign amid scandals \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Representatives Eric Swalwell, a California Democrat, and Tony Gonzales, a Texas Republican, announced Monday they would resign amid scrutiny over their conduct <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>When the Democratic party\u2019s governing body adjourned its meeting on Saturday in New Orleans, supporters of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/palestinian-territories\">Palestine<\/a> and an end of the genocide in Gaza had few reasons to celebrate. The Democratic National Committee had refused to give any ground to the large majority of the party\u2019s voters with distinctly negative views of Israel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last summer, a Quinnipiac Poll <a href=\"https:\/\/poll.qu.edu\/poll-release?releaseid=3929\">found<\/a> that 77% of Democrats agreed that \u201cIsrael is committing genocide.\u201d Last month, an NBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2026-election\/poll-israels-standing-plummets-democrats-fueling-primaries-left-rcna262995\">poll<\/a> found that registered Democrats \u2013 by a margin of 67-17% \u2013 were more sympathetic toward Palestinians than Israelis.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/apr\/14\/house-swalwell-gonzales-trump-congress-iran-politics-latest-news-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representatives Eric Swalwell, a California Democrat, and Tony Gonzales, a Texas Republican, announced Monday they would resign amid scrutiny over their conduct Sign up for the Breaking News US email When the Democratic party\u2019s governing body adjourned its meeting on Saturday in New Orleans, supporters of Palestine and an end of the genocide in Gaza &#8230; <a title=\"House returns as two lawmakers vow to resign amid scandals \u2013 US politics live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/house-returns-as-two-lawmakers-vow-to-resign-amid-scandals-us-politics-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about House returns as two lawmakers vow to resign amid scandals \u2013 US politics live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}