Top appropriators on Capitol Hill are seeking to tighten limits around how much money DHS can shift between accounts as they finalize funding bills ahead of the Jan. 30 shutdown deadline. Rep. Mark Amodei, the Nevada Republican who chairs the DHS funding panel, told reporters Tuesday night that House and Senate appropriators are crafting their […]
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Speaker Mike Johnson Tuesday evening swatted down the idea of any U.S. military action to take over Greenland, just after the White House said President Donald Trump wanted to acquire the territory and would not take military action off the table. “No, I don’t think that’s appropriate,” Johnson told reporters Tuesday evening. White House press […]
The new Republican-led panel tasked with investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack will hold its first hearing next week, Rep. Barry Loudermilk said in an interview Tuesday — the five-year anniversary of the event. The Georgia Republican, who is the chair of the select subcommittee, said his panel was still ironing out its list […]
Five years ago, Ryan Samsel ignited the Jan. 6 breach of the Capitol grounds when he charged through a police barricade, injuring a police officer in the process. Samsel returned to the site Tuesday, part of a group of fellow mob members who retraced the route Trump supporters took from the Ellipse to the foot […]
Tuesday was supposed to be a rah-rah day for House Republicans — a chance to strategize with President Donald Trump about their agenda for the tough election year ahead. Instead, 2026 got off to an unexpectedly somber start as they confronted the sudden death of a well-liked colleague and pondered the dire political and policy […]
Majority Leader John Thune laid out Tuesday the three components any bipartisan health deal would have to address in order for it to pass the Senate. That includes instituting minimum premium payments and other new restrictions, providing “a bridge to HSAs” including an expansion of the health savings accounts and dealing with the “Hyde issue” […]
Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego wants Congress to forestall a U.S. takeover of Greenland, requiring President Donald Trump to get lawmakers’ approval for any such action after this weekend’s military incursion into Venezuela. Gallego said he will introduce a war powers resolution focused on Greenland, an semiautonomous territory of Denmark that Trump has repeatedly suggested should […]
The race to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene in Congress is on. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp authorized a special election to select a candidate to fill the remainder of the former MAGA acolyte’s term following her official resignation from the House late Monday night. Kemp’s office posted the signed writ of election to his office’s website, […]
TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Gov. Ron DeSantis wants the state to take steps to discourage members of Congress from trading stocks, a topic that has seemingly divided Florida’s Hill delegation ahead of a potential vote in the House. DeSantis, during an event in Clearwater with GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, gave his full backing to Luna’s […]
Indiana Rep. Jim Baird and his wife are being hospitalized following a serious car crash, President Donald Trump confirmed in televised comments to House Republicans Tuesday. “They’re going to be OK, but they had a pretty bad accident,” Trump said at the top of his address to a House GOP legislative retreat, where he also […]