Senate Democrats ended their workday Tuesday agonizing over what to do about the record-setting government shutdown. Many of those same lawmakers woke up Wednesday morning ready to fight on. The sweeping Democratic gains in this week’s elections bolstered the faction in the party insisting that senators dig in and force Republicans to accede to their […]
Several Republican senators are voicing uncertainty ahead of a vote to block the Trump administration from taking military action against Venezuela, setting up a potential rebuke of the president over the scope of his war powers. The White House, in an apparent push to get Republicans on board, has started sharing more information with Congress […]
President Donald Trump took his pitch to nix the filibuster directly to Senate Republicans on Wednesday. They are once again saying, thanks, but no thanks. Trump spent several minutes during a breakfast meeting with GOP senators at the White House urging them to eliminate the 60-vote supermajority requirement for most bills and reopen the government […]
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday he had spoken with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, following the 34-year-old’s electoral win in the Senate leader’s hometown. Schumer repeatedly passed up opportunities to endorse Mamdani after several conversations between the two New Yorkers. On Tuesday, Schumer declined to say whom he voted for in the […]
Speaker Mike Johnson connected House Republicans’ fate in next year’s midterms to President Donald Trump on Wednesday, just hours after GOP candidates took an election night drubbing from Democrats who centered their campaigns on opposing him. “President Trump is on the ballot next fall,” Johnson said in his first comments of the off-year election results, […]
It’s officially the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, and about a dozen Democrats are itching to find a way out. But after Democrats’ sweeping victories Tuesday night, their colleagues are waking up this morning and wondering: Are we really going to cave now? The big wins in Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and elsewhere stand […]
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) chided Rep. Nancy Mace’s (R-S.C.) on Tuesday for her confrontation with airport security, after the House member claimed she was treated unfairly by agents at the Charleston International Airport. In a Tuesday evening Facebook post, Scott said Mace had invoked his name “for reasons that are unclear” and that his experiences […]
With just hours until the government shutdown becomes the longest in U.S. history, Senate Democrats privately agonized behind closed doors Tuesday about bringing it to an end. A two-hour-plus lunch meeting ended without a clear consensus on an endgame for the 35-day standoff, even after several senators involved in increasingly serious bipartisan negotiations laid out […]
Rep. Ayanna Pressley is seriously considering jumping into the race for the Massachusetts Senate seat currently held by fellow Democrat Ed Markey and has been checking in with allies about a possible run, according to four people granted anonymity to discuss the private conversations. That could put the 51-year-old member of the progressive “Squad” on […]
Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) announced Tuesday he will not run for governor in 2026. Speaking from the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, Padilla said it was “with a full heart” and “more commitment than ever” that he was choosing to remain in Congress rather than seek the governor’s mansion. “I choose not just to stay in […]