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 […]
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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 […]
Rep. Robert Garcia is starting to make quiet moves toward a bid to lead Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, according to five people granted anonymity to discuss his behind-the-scenes maneuvers. The Californian has started to round up support from other Democrats who are encouraging him to run and is testing the waters by making […]
GOP Sen. Thom Tillis said Tuesday he has told the White House he will oppose Ed Martin’s nomination to be the top federal prosecutor for the District of Columbia, a potentially fatal blow to his already dicey confirmation chances. Tillis spoke to reporters after meeting with Martin on Monday night. The North Carolinian, who is […]
House Republicans are preparing one of the largest overhauls to the country’s largest anti-hunger programs in decades, with a plan to limit future increases to benefits, implement new work requirements and push costs to states in a move that risks millions of low-income Americans being removed from the program. The Agriculture bill has faced delays […]
House Republicans revisited the 2017 congressional baseball shooting Tuesday, releasing a report attacking the FBI over its initial characterization of the event as a “suicide by cop.” The report from the House Intelligence Committee incorporated FBI records released to Congress by Director Kash Patel in March. In an early morning news conference Tuesday, Intelligence Chair […]
Republicans will be “hard pressed” to finish their megabill by Memorial Day, a key Republican said Tuesday at a hospital industry conference. This acknowledgment from Rep. Buddy Carter of Georgia, the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce health subcommittee, is a significant concession that Republicans face a steep hill to climb to meet […]
Democratic appropriators infuriated by the Trump administration’s disregard for Congress’ power of the purse are getting their first chance to cross examine the secretaries who have aided the president’s slashing. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins are hitting the Hill Tuesday to testify on their portions of President […]
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Monday he is open to amending landmark cryptocurrency legislation that GOP leaders hope to pass in the coming weeks on the floor, as Republicans scramble to negotiate changes that would win over enough Democrats to advance the bill. “Changes can be made on the floor for sure,” Thune told […]
Speaker Mike Johnson said he still intends to hold a vote House to vote to fix the District of Columbia’s $1 billion funding shortfall, after the stopgap government funding bill he spearheaded back in March inadvertently forced the city to confront sudden budget cuts. “I talked to the mayor and told her that we would […]