Senate Republicans are scrambling to rewrite major parts of their “big, beautiful bill” in deference to key holdouts and the chamber’s parliamentarian as the clock ticks on a self-imposed deadline. GOP leaders are aiming to start voting Thursday, but senators emerged from a closed-door briefing on the status of the megabill Monday night saying that […]
Rep. Robert Garcia won the approval of a key panel Monday to become the next top House Democrat on the Oversight Committee, according to two people familiar with the matter. The 47-year-old Californian is in just his second term in Congress. But he pitched himself as a consensus candidate who could bridge the divides between […]
Rep. Thomas Massie told reporters Monday evening he won’t advance a measure to block U.S. involvement in the Israel-Iran conflict if an apparent cease-fire announced by President Donald Trump holds. “I talked to the speaker on the floor just now and told him we wouldn’t push it if the cease-fire holds, so it’s really in […]
GOP Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Rick Scott of Florida are separately headed to the White House Monday afternoon to meet with President Donald Trump about the pending Republican megabill, according to two people granted anonymity to describe the private plans. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, another conservative Republican who has aired issues with […]
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) on Monday shared with GOP colleagues results from a new poll that showed overwhelming support among Republicans for President Donald Trump’s strikes in Iran. The poll is the first conducted of Trump voters since Saturday night’s efforts to destroy Iranian nuclear facilities. Nine in 10 respondents support the airstrikes on the […]
Two Ohio Republicans announced campaigns on Monday to challenge Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur from her battleground district seat, setting up a crowded primary in a race Republicans are targeting. Former state Rep. Derek Merrin is seeking a rematch after winning the GOP nomination in the Toledo-area district but narrowly losing to Kaptur in 2024. State […]
Attorney General Pam Bondi came under bipartisan pressure Monday from lawmakers who argued that proposed funding cuts to the Justice Department, including the FBI, are unwise as the conflict between the U.S. and Iran intensifies. During Bondi’s first congressional testimony since her confirmation hearings, House members said the threat of attacks in the U.S. had […]
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, one of President Donald Trump’s most vocal critics in the Senate GOP, said in a podcast on Monday that there are certain situations in which she’d consider becoming an independent and caucusing with Democrats. “There may be that possibility,” she told Galen Druke in an interview excerpt of his GD Politics […]
Several House Democrats are posting replicas of a commemorative plaque for police officers who defended the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection — needling Speaker Mike Johnson for the prolonged delay in installing the official plaque that was commissioned by Congress more than three years ago. The plaque honoring U.S. Capitol Police and other […]
Emil Bove will appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday for his nomination to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Trump nominated Bove, his principal associate deputy attorney general and former criminal defense attorney, to the federal bench in May, after Bove’s monthslong tenure at the Department of Justice implementing some of the most […]