Rep. Raul Grijalva has died at 77, according to a statement from his office. The 12-term Arizona Democrat had been under treatment for cancer. “Rep. Grijalva fought a long and brave battle,” the statement said. “He passed away this morning due to complications of his cancer treatments.” Grijalva had been largely absent from Congress since […]
The Senate on Thursday voted 56-43 to confirm Bill Pulte as the nation’s top housing regulator, putting him at the center of a fight over the future of two government-controlled companies that prop up half the residential mortgage market. As the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Pulte will have oversight of mortgage giants […]
LEESBURG, Virginia — Rep. Sarah McBride said she lived to “rent-free in the minds of some of my Republican colleagues” amid a controversy about GOP lawmakers referring to her by the wrong gender. Speaking Thursday at a news conference with House Minority Whip Katherine Clark and first-term Democratic women lawmakers, McBride said Republicans were “obsessed […]
In wake of the January crash near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport that killed 67 people, leaders of a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee are launching a bipartisan investigation into the military use of Washington-area air space. In a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Reps. William Timmons (R-S.C.) and Suhas Subramanyam (D-Va.) — […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson is naming Boeing official Curtis Beaulieu his top tax adviser, sources familiar with the decision say, filling a big hole on his staff as a sprawling fight in Congress over the tax code begins to heat up. Beaulieu, a senior director at Boeing, will replace Derek Theurer, who left for the […]
The White House is withdrawing its nominee to run the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in an abrupt move just hours before his confirmation hearing was scheduled to begin. Trump officials were expected to inform the Senate Thursday morning that Dave Weldon, a former Florida congressmember, will no longer be its pick for the […]
Senate Democrats are still not committing to helping Republicans pass a seven-month funding stopgap, edging the country closer to a government shutdown as they attempt to force a vote on a shorter funding patch. After two days of lengthy closed-door caucus talks (and another planned for Thursday), Democrats emerged with an attempted strategy Wednesday afternoon: […]
Congressional Republicans notched a major victory by muscling a funding bill through the House, but GOP lawmakers are still struggling to make headway on President Donald Trump’s biggest legislative priorities. House and Senate Republicans have yet to reach a deal on a budget plan that would set the framework for Trump’s legislative agenda — a […]
Two days out from a government shutdown, Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats find themselves in a serious jam. But some of them are starting to hint at how they might get out of it. Publicly, the Senate minority leader and many of his fellow Democrats are vowing they won’t provide the votes to allow a […]
It’s the accounting maneuver that could break the Senate, upend the federal budget process and explode the national debt. That’s according to critics of a fiscal tactic that congressional Republicans are now seriously considering as they struggle to figure out how to deliver on all of President Donald Trump’s policy demands. Adopting the “current policy […]