House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith (R-Mo.) is set to meet Friday with President Donald Trump at the White House with the tax portion of the GOP megabill at risk of unraveling, according to three people granted anonymity to describe the private plans. Smith will have to inform Trump that the tax portion of […]
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Senate Democrats are asking Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chair Rand Paul to convene a hearing on President Donald Trump’s deportation policies, including claims that administration officials are defying court orders in their haste to expel foreigners from the U.S. In a letter obtained by POLITICO, all the panel’s Democrats called on Paul to […]
Senate Democrats on Thursday voted down a procedural motion that would allow the upper chamber to take up landmark GOP-led cryptocurrency legislation, delivering a stunning blow to Republicans on one of their first major policy pushes since clinching a trifecta. The upper chamber voted 48-49 not to proceed on the crypto bill, squashing the effort […]
The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency was fired Thursday morning, according to two people with direct knowledge of the situation. Cameron Hamilton, FEMA’s acting administrator, has told people that he was terminated, leaving the nation’s disaster agency without a top official three weeks before the start of the Atlantic hurricane season and as […]
President Donald Trump suggested he is withdrawing the controversial nomination of Ed Martin to be the District of Columbia’s top federal prosecutor. “We have somebody else that will be great,” Trump told reporters Thursday. “We have somebody else who we’ll be announcing.” Martin had come under siege in recent days after Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) […]
The House took a largely party-line 211-206 vote Thursday to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America,” moving to codify President Donald Trump’s recent executive order. One Republican, Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), voted against the bill that had been led by firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who hailed it as “one […]
Rep. Jasmine Crockett said she would “rethink” whether to pursue a bid for the top Democratic job on the House Oversight Committee after a more senior member of the Congressional Black Caucus, Rep. Kweisi Mfume, said he might seek the post. “I always wanted to make sure that the Black Caucus is as strong as […]
One of the thorniest issues around Medicaid is yet to be resolved ahead of a crucial House Energy and Commerce Committee meeting next week to mark up its portion of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters Thursday Republicans are still considering a controversial proposal to cap federal spending in states […]
A bipartisan group of House members is drafting a sweeping bill to overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency — and in some cases expand its services — in an effort to head off President Donald Trump’s threats to shrink or abolish the agency. Under the bill, FEMA could pay for major repairs to homes damaged […]
The two most powerful Republicans projected total confidence Wednesday as they try to get the GOP megabill moving through the House: President Donald Trump proclaimed “great progress” after a meeting of top leaders, and Speaker Mike Johnson said key committee markups would “100 percent” take place next week. There was one undeniable point of progress: […]