Senators emerged Wednesday evening from closed-door negotiations over cryptocurrency legislation without a deal to trumpet, leaving the landmark digital assets bill in flux ahead of a key procedural vote on Thursday. Republicans plan to proceed with the vote as scheduled, according to a GOP aide with knowledge of the matter. Some Democrats were pushing Wednesday […]
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House Republicans are privately negotiating with the White House over the makeup of President Donald Trump’s forthcoming request to nix $9.3 billion already allocated for the State Department, foreign aid and public broadcasting. House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) told reporters Wednesday night that top Republicans are in “robust discussion — back and forth discussion” […]
President Donald Trump is declaring that Republicans are “making great progress” as the GOP conference wrangles with key policy holdups that could delay the package central to his agenda. “We are making great progress on ‘The One, Big, Beautiful Bill,’” Trump said in a Truth Social post. The president also added that the megabill will […]
Some key Democratic holdouts on landmark Senate cryptocurrency legislation are pushing to delay a procedural floor vote that is currently slated for Thursday to buy more time to finalize an agreement and get other members on board, according to two people with knowledge of the negotiations who were granted anonymity to discuss sensitive, closed-door talks. […]
Congressional Republicans agree that the federal government has a spending problem. Now top GOP leaders want to make it someone else’s problem — by shifting some safety-net programs onto state budgets. The plans under discussion could generate hundreds of billions of dollars in savings to finance the GOP’s domestic policy megabill. But they’re vexing Republican […]
Republicans pushing for an increase in the state-and-local-tax deduction, or SALT, are expected to make their final case at a Ways and Means Committee GOP lunch meeting Wednesday, according to two people granted anonymity to discuss the private plans. Reps. Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.) and Young Kim (R-Calif.), co-chairs of the GOP SALT Caucus, plan to […]
Far-right activist Laura Loomer is going after a prominent conservative health policy expert and former Trump administration official for his proposals to overhaul Medicaid — stoking larger intraparty tensions at a pivotal moment for negotiations over President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” In a social media post Monday, Loomer called Brian Blase, the president of […]
A former aide to Rep. Gerry Connolly has quickly jumped into the race to replace the longtime member of Congress from Northern Virginia — with the blessing of his former boss. James Walkinshaw, a member of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors who served as Connolly’s chief of staff for more than a decade, cast […]
Key Republican moderates said Tuesday they had grown more comfortable with a revised House GOP effort to overhaul Medicaid following an evening meeting with Speaker Mike Johnson and other leaders. Johnson needs to find near-unanimity among House Republicans as he finalizes the GOP megabill central to President Donald Trump’s agenda, and several of the centrists […]
House Democratic leaders said Tuesday they would launch a longshot effort to force a vote on a bill preventing cuts to key federal safety-net programs. The discharge petition is meant to put political pressure on Republicans as they eye cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in writing their domestic policy megabill. “All […]