There’s a new timeline out for the planned overhaul of House food service options, with many of the transitions from existing brands to their replacements happening in the coming weeks, according to a schedule released Monday by the House Chief Administrative Officer. Up first, coffee options: The Longworth Dunkin’ will close July 24, with a […]
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The House is expected to vote Wednesday on a sweeping cryptocurrency market structure overhaul before taking up the Senate’s stablecoin legislation Thursday, according to three congressional aides with knowledge of the schedule who were granted anonymity to discuss unannounced plans. The House is also expected to vote Wednesday on legislation that would ban a central […]
It’s grind time for Republicans. They have until Friday to deliver on President Donald Trump’s rescissions request as they also try to salvage government funding talks that are spiraling out of control. With several senators insisting on changes to Trump’s proposal to claw back $9.4 billion for foreign aid and public media, White House budget […]
President Donald Trump’s landmark legislation is driving a giant hole in governors’ budgets in a midterm year. By slashing health care and food assistance for low-income Americans, Republicans in Washington are passing tremendous costs onto the states, leaving local leaders from both parties grasping for ways to make up for billions in lost federal dollars. […]
One year after a shooter injured then-candidate Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Sen. Rand Paul called for congressional oversight of the Secret Service, complaining of a “cultural cover-up” that he claimed masked critical security failures before the attack. The Kentucky Republican, chair of the Homeland Security Committee, told CBS’ Margaret Brennan on […]
The battle for the Senate won’t be decided for another year and a half. But the key questions that will determine who wins the upper chamber are beginning to come into focus. For Democrats to flip the chamber, everything needs to go right. They have to net four seats, and a wave of retirements earlier […]
President Donald Trump is threatening to withhold endorsements from Republican senators who don’t support the administration’s effort to claw back $9.4 billion of congressionally approved funds. Trump said in a social media post Thursday that the proposed cuts — in particular the $1.1 billion to come from public media — are “very important” to him. […]
President Donald Trump is trying to force Joe Biden’s former White House aides to divulge confidential discussions to congressional investigators — using the same tactics he once warned would “do grave damage” to the presidency and the republic. Trump’s White House lawyers, in a series of recent letters to Biden aides, said the aides should […]
Senate Republicans are bracing for another one of their colleagues to possibly call it quits: Joni Ernst. The two-term Iowa senator hasn’t officially announced her plans for 2026, and she’s gone through some of the motions of launching another campaign, including recently hiring someone to manage it and announcing her annual fall fundraiser. But three […]
Senators are exploring options for boosting member security through the government funding process following the shootings of state lawmakers in Minnesota and threats against multiple members of the House and Senate. At a Senate Appropriations Committee markup Thursday of the fiscal 2026 bill to fund the operations of Congress and support agencies, Legislative Branch subcommittee […]