One principle has long underpinned funding negotiations on Capitol Hill: House Republicans can’t pass a spending bill without Democratic votes. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson finally quashed that assumption. It took an all-out lobbying blitz that involved promises of future spending cuts, a scattering of presidential threats and 11th-hour policy concessions […]
President Donald Trump has long been able to bend Republican lawmakers to his will with a single online post. The mere hint of a threat that he might announce a member “SHOULD BE PRIMARIED” is enough to bring most GOP members into line. Not Rep. Thomas Massie. The 54-year-old former robotics engineer brushed aside that […]
The House officially appointed members to the Ethics Committee on Tuesday — months into the new Congress and with unresolved baggage still lingering. The committee will once again be chaired by Rep. Michael Guest, the Mississippi Republican who oversaw the fraught release of the report that detailed the panel’s investigation into embattled former Rep. Matt […]
House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan has a strategy for how to give President Donald Trump’s top ally, Elon Musk, the changes to high-skilled visa rules the tech billionaire so desperately wants. In interviews this week, the Ohio Republican said he is eyeing his party’s flagship immigration bill as the legislative vehicle for overhauling existing laws […]
Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune met on Tuesday and discussed the sweeping domestic policy legislation at the top of their 2025 agenda. The closed-door conversation came as the House and Senate struggle to quickly get on the same page as they try to pass President Donald Trump’s tax, energy and border […]
President Donald Trump has tapped Eric Ueland, a veteran Senate and White House aide, to a key post at the Office of Management and Budget. Ueland has been nominated to serve as deputy director for management at the White House budget office, a high ranking role that would have him serving directly under OMB Director […]
House Republicans are moving to block Democrats from forcing a vote on President Donald Trump’s controversial tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China. GOP leadership slipped language into a House rule on their stopgap funding bill that would prevent any member of Congress from bringing up a resolution terminating Trump’s declaration of a national emergency over […]
The House GOP’s seven-month stopgap funding bill to avert a government shutdown is one step closer to passage. Republicans stayed mostly united on a test vote on the measure Tuesday afternoon, paving the way for a vote on final passage later in the day — just three days before the deadline to prevent a lapse […]
President Donald Trump is increasing pressure on Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) to align with House Republicans and vote yes on the government funding bill. In a Truth Social post Tuesday, Trump labels Massie as a “Congressman” and a grandstander. It follows a message Monday where Trump suggested Massie should be primaried — saying he would […]
Speaker Mike Johnson said in an interview Tuesday morning he expects House Republicans “are going to pass” a bill to fund the government later in the day, ahead of the looming March 14 deadline to avoid a shutdown. His comments came as Vice President JD Vance is attending the House GOP Conference’s weekly meeting to […]