The Senate will move forward with a budget blueprint next week setting out a two-track approach to enacting President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda, key senators said Wednesday. The announcement, made by Senate Budget Committee Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) inside a closed-door Senate GOP lunch, comes after a competing framework from Speaker Mike Johnson and other […]
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Congressional Hispanic Caucus members met privately with immigration advocacy groups Tuesday night to strategize how to counter President Donald Trump’s executive actions that have already altered the immigration system. The goals of the meeting, which were outlined in a document obtained by POLITICO, include increasing immigration legal defense, fundraising for the influx of legal needs […]
President Donald Trump has nominated Anthony Tata, whose bid for a top Pentagon post in the president’s first term was undermined by his inflammatory comments, for a leading role at the Defense Department. Trump abandoned Tata’s nomination for a high-level policy job at the time amid Senate resistance. He was later named to the position […]
Threats against members of Congress and the Capitol complex climbed for the second year in a row in 2024, according to a report released by the United States Capitol Police Threat Assessment Section. The report, released Feb. 3, identified 9,474 statements and threats against members of Congress — as well as their family and staff […]
The Senate’s top appropriator thinks Elon Musk has gone too far. Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, is raising alarms about the influence that billionaire Elon Musk is wielding inside the Trump administration and across federal agencies. “There’s no doubt that the president appears to have empowered Elon Musk far beyond what I […]
Rep. Al Green said Wednesday he was introducing impeachment articles against Donald Trump after the president said the U.S. would “take over” Gaza. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. and injustice in Gaza is a threat to justice in the United States of America,” Green said in a floor speech Wednesday morning. “I […]
Florida Rep. Byron Donalds challenged Speaker Mike Johnson inside a closed-door House Republican conference meeting Wednesday morning to produce a workable plan to advance President Donald Trump’s policy agenda, according to three people in the room granted anonymity to describe the exchange. Donalds is a member of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus that has proposed […]
Former National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox sued the Trump administration on Wednesday over her abrupt removal from the agency last week. “The President’s removal of Ms. Wilcox without even purporting to identify any neglect of duty or malfeasance, and without notice or a hearing, defies ninety years of Supreme Court precedent that has […]
A veteran House Democrat is introducing new legislation to respond to billionaire Trump ally Elon Musk’s overhaul of the federal government: Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) on Wednesday rolled out the Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy (ELON MUSK) Act, which would ban “special” government employees like Musk from having federal contract. […]
Senate Republicans are gearing up to ask Trump in a dinner Friday whether they should take the lead on advancing the core of his sweeping legislative agenda, as House efforts to kick off budget reconciliation look like they’ll collapse. Majority Leader John Thune told Mia on Tuesday night that GOP senators’ two-bill strategy “could be […]