House Republicans’ new stopgap spending measure is already making its way through the House Rules Committee, which gaveled in at 8 a.m. to get moving on the latest bid to avert a government shutdown when funds run dry this weekend. The bill, released overnight, includes nearly 30 percent cuts to non-defense agencies and discretionary programs […]
President Joe Biden placed a big bet that he could sell an improving economy under the banner of “Bidenomics.” Three months later, some allied Democrats fear he’s made a serious misstep. Several top Biden allies have privately raised concerns about the phrase to the White House, according to two people familiar with the backchanneling. And […]
House Republicans failed Thursday night to pass one of their party’s slimmed-down spending measures, another fumble by GOP leaders just days before an impending government shutdown. Speaker Kevin McCarthy plans to move Friday to a narrower GOP stopgap funding patch that’s loaded up with spending cuts and border policies, though that measure currently lacks the […]
Conservative hardliners are privately strategizing who could replace Kevin McCarthy if there is an ouster effort against the speaker. But they’re hitting a familiar dead end: They can’t land on a feasible alternative. “You hear all kinds of names thrown out,” said Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), a member of the ultra-conservative caucus, adding that McCarthy […]
What is Matt Gaetz‘s endgame: spending cuts, a political boost, or revenge? It’s the question reverberating on Capitol Hill after the simmering feud between the Florida conservative and Speaker Kevin McCarthy flared up again Thursday morning in a closed-door meeting, with one lawmaker telling Gaetz to “fuck off” for leveling unproven accusations against the speaker. […]
Rep. Ami Bera (D-Calif.) isn’t giving up on his push to turn his brush with a rabid Capitol fox in April 2022 into positive public policy change. His bill, which he reintroduced after a first attempt last year, would create a reimbursement program for providers who treat uninsured individuals for rabies and enable grants for […]
If Sen. Bob Menendez was hoping to win back support from fellow Democrats in a closed-door meeting Thursday — where he vowed not to resign despite his indictment for allegedly taking bribes — he appears to have failed. Exiting the sitdown, senators were quiet, glum and seemed altogether unmoved. Menendez’s address to his colleagues may […]
More than two dozen members of the House Freedom Caucus are demanding Speaker Kevin McCarthy answer questions about the path forward on government funding while also publicly denouncing a bipartisan Senate stopgap proposal. “No Member of Congress can or should be expected to consider supporting a stop-gap funding measure without answers to these reasonable questions,” […]
Senate Foreign Relations Chair Ben Cardin said Thursday he is weighing whether to delay $235 million in military aid to Cairo in the wake of federal charges that Sen. Bob Menendez accepted bribes in exchange for influencing that aid. “I am looking at my options,” Cardin (D-Md.) said at his first press conference since the […]
The Senate has failed to override President Joe Biden’s veto of two resolutions aimed at overturning expanded protections for two animal species under the Endangered Species Act. Senators failed to hit the two-thirds threshold needed to override Biden’s vetoes of resolutions targeting the lesser prairie-chicken and the northern long-eared bat. Backers of the resolutions, led […]