Donald Trump is continuing to complicate the path forward for congressional Republicans, who are desperate for clarity on what the president wants them to do to enact his massive domestic agenda. In comments on Brian Kilmeade’s radio show Friday, Trump openly entertained a notion that the GOP’s efforts to extend expiring tax cuts with new […]
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Senate Republicans just approved their budget resolution after a more than 10-hour vote-a-rama. For now, it’s the GOP’s “Plan B,” as President Donald Trump’s preferred budget may not have the support to move ahead next week in the House. Senators slogged through 25 roll-call votes on amendments as Democrats tried to squeeze the opposing party […]
Senate Republicans are on track to adopt their budget resolution in the early hours of Friday morning — a bid to show support for a “Plan B” if House GOP lawmakers can’t unite around their more expansive vision for a party-line package necessary to enact President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda. Senators had voted on more […]
Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley is starting talks with the White House about moving judicial nominees through his committee. “The only discussion I’ve had is the process,” the Iowa Republican said in an interview this week. “Just with the White House Counsel.” The update, however preliminary, signals the start of President Donald Trump’s relaunched efforts […]
Speaker Mike Johnson appeared to put the brakes on rising talk from President Donald Trump and Elon Musk about sending checks to American taxpayers with savings from the ongoing cuts from the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. “Politically, that would be great for us, send everybody a check,” Johnson said in an interview at CPAC. […]
Senate Republicans are embarking Thursday afternoon on an amendment free-for-all expected to keep lawmakers voting through the night — all to green-light a fiscal blueprint President Donald Trump doesn’t favor. The budget measure the Senate is on track to adopt at the end of an arduous “vote-a-rama” sets a framework for a party-line package of […]
The shadow primary to replace Sen. Mitch McConnell was already in full swing. Now it’s coming out into the open. The former Senate GOP leader’s departure was not unexpected — he spent the opening days of his final term in the Senate shooting down President Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks. But his official upcoming exit poses […]
Former Reps. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) and Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) are set to host a new show launched by Zeteo, the media outlet founded by former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan. The pair will host the online show — named “Bowman and Bush” — monthly and detail their experiences serving in government. Both former Squad members lost […]
The Senate has confirmed Kash Patel as director of the FBI, launching a new chapter for the nation’s top domestic investigative agency. Lawmakers voted to confirm Patel 51-49, with Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski joining with all Democrats in opposition. A longtime Trump loyalist who has in the past expressed his desire to […]
President Donald Trump said he was thinking about taking over local politics in the District of Columbia, a move that’d reignite controversy about the authority of the nation’s capital city to govern itself. “The federal government should take over the governance of D.C. and run it really, really properly,” Trump told reporters on Air Force […]