Illinois Rep. Lauren Underwood said Monday she will forgo a Senate run to succeed Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin and will stay in the House instead. “When I reflected on the way that I could best serve families in Illinois and around the country, I really decided to stay in the House of Representatives,” the Democrat […]
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Speaker Mike Johnson is set to hold another meeting with Republican members pushing for a higher cap on the state-and-local-tax deduction on Monday night. The 9 p.m. meeting, confirmed by three Republicans granted anonymity to describe private plans, comes amid a final push from GOP leaders toward a vote on the party-line domestic policy bill, […]
The GOP megabill is undergoing some significant changes in the House as conservative hard-liners, moderates and blue-state Republicans all angle to shape the bill to their liking ahead of a potential floor vote this week. Conservatives are still pushing for controversial changes to the federal share of Medicaid payments, which could lead to major benefit […]
GOP fiscal hawks let their party’s tax and spending package advance toward a floor vote. But they’re threatening to tank President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” if they don’t see even more spending cuts and conservative policy changes. Catch up: Republican hard-liners who sank the Budget Committee’s initial vote on the vehicle for Trump’s domestic […]
Sen. Rand Paul attacked the economic logic of President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff strategy on Sunday — and agreed that the policies raise constitutional concerns. The Kentucky Republican said Trump’s sweeping tariffs on foreign trading partners are based on “an economic fallacy” about trade deficits and objected to the president’s move to pursue them without […]
President Donald Trump was only a few hours into a marathon flight from Abu Dhabi on Friday when he sent a crystal-clear message to Capitol Hill: Tidy up the house, kids, because dad’s coming home from his big work trip. Or, translated into Trump-ese, “Republicans MUST UNITE behind, ‘THE ONE, BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL!’ … STOP […]
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency initiative sought this week to gain access to the congressional office which fields and manages complaints about discrimination, harassment, accessibility and other workplace issues, according to three congressional employees granted anonymity to describe the sensitive situation. The Office of Congressional Workplace Rights is the third legislative branch agency that […]
House GOP leaders discussed a new, heightened state-and-local-tax deduction with a group of Republican holdouts as they race to salvage their party-line megabill from ruin. A $40,000 cap on the key deduction for individuals and $80,000 cap for joint filers was part of a list of items GOP leaders raised overnight as they scrambled to […]
President Donald Trump encouraged House Republicans to unite behind the megabill in a Truth Social post Friday morning as some archconservatives have warned of their dissatisfaction with the GOP package. “Republicans MUST UNITE behind, ‘THE ONE, BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL!’” Trump said in a Truth Social post. “Not only does it cut Taxes for ALL Americans, […]
House Republican leaders delayed a vote Friday morning to push their party-line tax and spending package through the Budget Committee amid ongoing GOP opposition. To placate fiscal conservatives on the panel, Republican leaders are entertaining substantial changes to the bill before lawmakers are expected to vote on passage next week, including enforcing work requirements on […]