Indicted Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) will not attend a Wednesday classified briefing on the Gaza Strip for all senators, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced Tuesday (per The Hill). Latest charges against Menendez allege he and his wife received bribes of gold, cash, cars and home mortgage payments from a suspected agent of the Egyptian government. 

Menendez had already stepped down temporarily as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Meanwhile, Newsweek reports that Rep. Andy Kim (D-NJ) raised more campaign funds for the 2024 Democratic nomination than the incumbent for Menendez’s Senate seat. For the reporting period ending one week after Kim announced his primary challenge, the representative raised $1,174,346 to Menendez’s $919,105, according to the report.

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