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 […]
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Vice President JD Vance told House Republicans hours ahead of an expected vote on a seven-month funding patch on Tuesday that Republicans will take the blame for a government shutdown if they don’t pass the legislation, according to three people who were in the room for the comments. Vance emphasized that Republicans had little room […]
House GOP leaders went into the week with plans to pass their stopgap funding bill today without Democratic support. That might not be possible. With one surefire “no” in Rep. Thomas Massie, Republican leaders still need to wrangle a handful of potential holdouts — including Reps. Tony Gonzales, Tim Burchett, Cory Mills, Rich McCormick, Beth […]
A new bill to address the mass firings of probationary federal workers by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is picking up bipartisan support. First-term Republican Reps. Michael Baumgartner of Washington and Jeff Hurd of Colorado have signed onto legislation that would ensure that recently terminated probationary workers could reclaim the seniority they amassed in […]
Senate Majority Leader John Thune has deputized a folksy Louisiana lawmaker known for his blunt political observations and creative analogies to take the lead in convincing President Donald Trump to develop a strategy for raising the debt limit later this year. That Senate envoy, Sen. John Neely Kennedy, says Trump isn’t ready to focus just […]
House Republicans are set to adjust their stopgap spending bill in a bid to win over holdouts, stripping a planned increase in the number of available visas for Afghan allies who fought alongside U.S. troops. Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.), one of the holdouts, said in an interview Monday that he’s pushing for the change to […]
Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought met with some House Republicans Monday night, where he offered “full-throated support” for the seven-month funding patch, according to House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole, who was in the meeting. “He was very supportive of the [continuing resolution], went through it, explained what’s in it and talked about […]
Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee huddled on Monday with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to review a large menu of tax options for the GOP’s policy agenda. The tax writers were for the most part tight-lipped on what they discussed as they exited the all-day session at the Jefferson building of the Library […]
Top Democratic appropriators released a short-term funding bill Monday night meant to serve as an alternative to the House Republican plan to fund the government through September as the two parties face off ahead of a Friday midnight shutdown deadline. The Democratic bill would keep the government running on current funding levels for four weeks […]
Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader Steve Scalise have pledged to address pay cuts for doctors treating Medicare patients in Republicans’ party-line package to enact broad swaths of President Donald Trump’s agenda, a key lawmaker said Monday It comes after leaders decided not to include it in a government funding bill as initially planned. In […]