Lawmakers will hold a hearing next week on “Threats to ICE Operations,” in the latest escalation from the GOP after a chaotic protest at a New Jersey Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility that involved three House Democrats. The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight, led by New Jersey Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew, will hear Tuesday […]
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House Republicans are sticking with their plan to hold a crucial committee vote needed to launch their party-line tax and spending package for floor debate — despite last-minute objections from fiscal hawks. The House Budget Committee will hold its morning markup Friday, as scheduled, and GOP leaders expect the panel to approve the bill after […]
House Republicans are steamrolling toward Friday morning’s scheduled Budget Committee markup even as a growing number of issues threaten to block progress on their “big, beautiful bill.” GOP leaders went back and forth overnight with conservatives after they threatened to tank the bill over key disagreements around Medicaid work requirements and IRA tax credits. Other […]
House Republican leaders are having to salvage their party-line megabill a lot sooner than they thought. A surprise holdout by ultraconservative members of the House Budget Committee Thursday is forcing Speaker Mike Johnson to entertain significant changes to the GOP sweeping domestic policy bill, endangering his ambitious Memorial Day timeline for House passage. The hard-right […]
Democratic lawmakers are trying to block billions of dollars in arms sales to two Middle Eastern countries to protest investments in President Donald Trump’s personal business and a jet offered to him. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) plans to force a vote on five major arms sales to the United Arab Emirates and Qatar valued at […]
Speaker Mike Johnson is racing to resolve a suite of remaining issues with the GOP megabill just days before he hopes to put it up for a floor vote. Warring factions inside the House Republican Conference huddled with the speaker Thursday, jockeying primarily over what to do about SALT — the state-and-local-tax deduction. But other […]
Speaker Mike Johnson is scrambling to negotiate with competing factions of his conference as the clock ticks to advance President Donald Trump’s agenda through the House next week. Here’s a sampling of what each group is gunning for: THE SALT-IES: The so-called SALT Republicans are at an impasse with GOP leadership over the state-and-local-tax deduction. […]
GOP staff for the the House Agriculture Committee is warning industry groups that they need to get behind the panel’s megabill package of $300 billion in nutrition spending cuts or risk getting nothing from the $60 billion in farm bill investments also included in the proposal. Trevor White, the committee’s policy director, sent an email […]
More than a dozen House Republicans are urging party leaders to undo key rollbacks of Democrats’ clean energy credits that the Ways and Means Committee pushed through Wednesday as part of the party’s megabill. Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-Va.) and 12 other moderate Republicans, warned in a statement that abruptly cutting off Inflation Reduction Act tax […]
One of the most vulnerable Republicans in Congress and one of the most outspoken are feuding over the cap on state and local deductions in the GOP’s sweeping tax bill. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene struck first at Rep. Mike Lawler, noting his tenuous grip on his suburban New York seat and questioning why effort to […]