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 […]
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Speaker Mike Johnson’s chief of staff could not complete a sobriety test after twice striking a black Chevy Suburban with his white Tesla sedan, according to an affidavit from the officer who arrested him for driving under the influence last week. The officer who responded just after midnight — about an hour after President Donald […]
Top D.C. officials protested a House Republican-written funding patch outside the Capitol on Monday, saying the omission of routine language included in prior continuing resolutions could mean a de facto $1 billion budget cut for the city government. Mayor Muriel Bowser — flanked by Democratic Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, members of the D.C. Council and […]
House Democrats are set to hear from pollsters, governors and a former ambassador to the United Nations at their issues conference later this week, according to a schedule obtained by POLITICO. Party faithful are set to head to the Lansdowne Resort in Leesburg, Virginia, from Wednesday evening through Friday morning this week for their annual […]
Speaker Mike Johnson is trying to muscle through a stopgap spending bill to avert a government shutdown, but he doesn’t have the votes locked down yet. President Donald Trump is pressing the small group of GOP holdouts to fall in line ahead of the Friday shutdown deadline, and House Democratic leaders are whipping all their […]
Mike Johnson to Chuck Schumer on government funding: Your move. House Republicans are pushing a not-so-clean spending patch through September that would add billions of dollars for deportations, veterans’ health care and the military — and cut $13 billion in funding for non-defense programs. The speaker is planning to put the stopgap, known as a […]
When Rep. Jasmine Crockett reacted to President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress on Tuesday evening, profanity leaped effortlessly from her lips: “Somebody slap me and wake me the fuck up because I’m ready to get on with it.” Just a few days earlier, when asked of her message to Elon Musk, she told him […]
The funding bill House Republican leaders released on Saturday does not avert cuts for doctors who treat Medicare patients — a blow to Republicans who had pushed for the changes that also could risk alienating members whose support will be needed to pass the legislation. Rep. Greg Murphy (R-N.C.), who co-chairs the GOP Doctors’ Caucus, […]
A seven-month funding patch released by House Republicans Saturday would add billions of dollars in spending for deportations, veterans’ health care and the military while cutting an even greater amount of funding for non-defense programs. The measure, crafted by Speaker Mike Johnson in coordination with the White House, reflects President Donald Trump’s top policy priorities […]
Top House Democrats on Friday bashed the GOP’s plan for keeping the government open but stopped short of rallying their party against the bill, underscoring the fine line they’re walking around the shutdown looming next week. In a letter to members, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Minority Whip Katherine Clark and Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar […]