The new House subcommittee designed to complement the work of Elon Musk has named its first target: the nonprofit news media. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s “Delivering on Government Efficiency” Subcommittee — or DOGE, mimicking its Musk-run analogue, the Department of Government Efficiency — is asking the leaders of PBS and NPR to […]
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries issued a key demand Monday as a March 14 government funding deadline approaches, saying President Donald Trump’s recent federal spending freeze “must be choked off” as part of any bipartisan deal to keep the government open, “if not sooner.” The ultimatum, detailed in a letter to House Democrats, is a […]
Donald Trump is testing congressional power and Republican fealty on three major fronts this week as he steers the country into a backyard trade war, grants Elon Musk unprecedented access to critical government operations and forces senators to take their most difficult votes yet on his nominees. There are early signals of trouble ahead. Here’s […]
Speaker Mike Johnson already has to worry about a clutch of hard-line conservative ideologues inside the House Republican ranks as he tries to pass the heart of President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda. He also needs to keep an eye on one garrulous, shape-shifting, veteran Republican from the other side of the Capitol. South Carolina Sen. […]
If the reception Robert F. Kennedy Jr. received from Democratic senators last week is any indication of how they’ll vote on his confirmation to serve as President Donald Trump’s health secretary, Kennedy’s going to need 50 Republicans to back him. The Senate Finance Committee will vote Tuesday on the recommendation of Kennedy’s confirmation to lead […]
House Republican leaders want committees to land deeper spending cuts in their party-line bill to enact President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda, as they scramble to address a rebellion from key Budget Committee members who think Speaker Mike Johnson’s initial plan falls short. Key hard-liners and others on the Budget panel are pushing to outline at […]
President Donald Trump on Friday pledged not to cut Medicaid, save for fraud and abuse — a vow that puts him at odds with Republicans in Congress who hope to use changes to the program to help finance a massive legislative package to enact the president’s domestic agenda. Asked about broader spending cuts in the […]
Rep. Sam Graves, the Missouri Republican in charge of overseeing the Federal Aviation Administration in the House, said Friday that diversity initiatives at the agency had nothing to do with a crash between a commercial airplane and an Army helicopter that killed 67 people earlier this week. In an interview with POLITICO, Graves, who chairs […]
House Republicans are still furiously working, and sparring, behind the scenes as they try to finalize their plans to consider a budget resolution — necessary for unlocking the process to move forward with legislation to enact President Donald Trump’s domestic policy agenda. Under Speaker Mike Johnson’s ambitious timeline, the House Budget Committee needs to take […]
Sen. Ted Cruz, who leads the panel overseeing the Federal Aviation Administration, said Friday it’s a “reasonable inference” that the helicopter pilot involved in the deadly collision with a commercial flight earlier this week may have been looking at the wrong plane — though he stressed that nothing has been confirmed. Speaking at length on […]