Speaker Mike Johnson and his leadership team urged their Senate GOP counterparts on Monday to vote swiftly on a House-approved budget framework now that lawmakers are returning to Washington after a weeklong recess. The public nudge comes as GOP leaders on both sides of the Capitol feel pressure to show quick progress toward enacting President […]
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Congress is back. Lawmakers have three weeks to make major progress on their behemoth party-line bill. Hill Republicans are focused now on advancing President Donald Trump’s border, energy and tax priorities. Speaker Mike Johnson has set an aggressive goal of finalizing a budget blueprint with the Senate and getting it passed in the House by […]
The U.S. is most likely to default on its $36 trillion national debt sometime between mid-July and early October if Congress doesn’t act, the Bipartisan Policy Center predicted Monday. On Capitol Hill, the trusted forecast from the nonpartisan think tank is crucial to the GOP’s legislative agenda. Republican leaders are now trying to decide whether […]
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Sunday rebuffed a recent critique from former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about his decision to support the Republican-backed stopgap spending bill, saying he had no choice but to avert a government shutdown. “What we got, at the end of the day, is avoiding the horror of a shutdown,” Schumer […]
ALBANY, New York — Gov. Kathy Hochul’s lifelong obsession with Harriet Tubman is propelling an effort to place a statue of the 19th century abolitionist in the U.S. Capitol. The push to put Tubman’s marble likeness in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall is also being backed by both the state Senate and Assembly, which support the […]
Michael Bennet stopped short of calling for Chuck Schumer to step aside as Senate Democrats’ leader — though he pointedly compared the situation to the party’s internal strife over then-President Joe Biden serving as the party’s nominee last summer. “On the leadership question, it’s always better to examine whether folks are in the right place, […]
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House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan said he plans to hold hearings on recent judicial rulings against the Trump administration’s agenda, after President Donald Trump, Elon Musk and conservatives have called for impeaching federal judges. James Boasberg, the chief judge of the federal district court in Washington, D.C., had ruled that Trump must stop the deportation […]
President Donald Trump wants Congress to repair a significant cut to the District of Columbia’s budget and is happy to leave the procedural details to Speaker Mike Johnson, according to two White House officials. But the president is prepared to work the phones — or, if needed, fire off a social media post — to […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi offered a sharp critique of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday, suggesting he had forfeited a crucial bargaining chip by allowing a vote on Republicans’ government funding bill. “I myself don’t give away anything for nothing,” Pelosi told reporters during a news conference at a children’s […]