Democratic mayors, summoned to Washington to answer for their handling of the immigration crisis, struggled on Wednesday to combat Republican allegations their cities are rife with violent crime and in need of rescuing by the GOP administration. It was the culmination of months of relentless attacks by President Donald Trump and his allies, and it […]
GOP Sen. Susan Collins received a warm welcome across the Capitol Wednesday at the House Republican Study Committee’s weekly lunch, where the moderate from Maine talked with staunch conservatives about tough realities for funding the government ahead of the March 14 shutdown deadline. The meeting at which the Senate Appropriations Committee chair was a special […]
Senate Republicans urged Elon Musk on Wednesday to better coordinate with them, with many suggesting the tech billionaire send Congress a package of proposed spending cuts to enshrine the work of his Department of Government Efficiency initiative. The message was delivered during a closed-door lunch organized by Florida Sen. Rick Scott in the latest instance […]
President Donald Trump made progress Wednesday in convincing GOP holdouts to back a government funding extension ahead of a March 14 shutdown deadline. Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.) said in a brief interview Wednesday after an afternoon meeting with Trump at the White House that he is now open to supporting the six-month funding patch that […]
Congress’ top appropriators are finalizing a bipartisan agreement on overall government funding totals as House Republican leaders forge ahead with a different plan President Donald Trump has endorsed to avoid a shutdown. The impending deal on funding totals comes far too late to save Congress from having to clear a funding patch next week to […]
Members of the Senate Commerce Committee, led by Sen. Ted Cruz, clashed in a rancorous hearing Wednesday morning over the GOP’s push to subpoena documents from the Massachusetts Port Authority related to its sheltering of migrants in Boston Logan Airport. It was an unusually testy meeting for a panel that has long prided itself on […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries sidestepped questions Wednesday about Democratic lawmakers’ efforts to disrupt President Donald Trump’s address to Congress. “We’re going to keep the focus on the American people — that’s where the focus should be,” he said. “Republicans are crashing the economy in real time and trying to enact the largest cut to […]
Members of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus are planning to introduce a resolution to censure Rep. Al Green (D-Texas), who was booted from President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress Tuesday night. Green stood up and shouted that Trump had “no mandate” before Speaker Mike Johnson ordered that he be ejected. A censure is a […]
President Donald Trump did not offer GOP congressional leaders any easy lay-ups in his joint address Tuesday night, sending mixed messages on his existing legislative priorities and proposing others that ranged from impractical to totally unrealistic. Trump reiterated his campaign-trail promises to end taxes on tips, overtime and Social Security — policies House Republicans worry […]
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