Speaker Mike Johnson, addressing House Republicans behind closed doors just three weeks before the government is set to shut down, said he and other GOP leaders are waiting on direction from the White House for next steps on government funding. In particular, appropriators are waiting on “anomaly” requests from President Donald Trump’s budget aides, Johnson […]
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Senate Republicans are ready to “go nuclear” this week after failing to reach a deal with Democrats to clear a backlog of some 150 of President Donald Trump’s nominees. Majority Leader John Thune filed a resolution Monday to simultaneously confirm 48 bipartisan executive branch nominees, paving the way for a Thursday vote. Republicans expect it […]
Republicans are preparing to again “go nuclear” on the Senate’s rules. The fallout this time could be limited. Majority Leader John Thune filed a list of more than 40 nominees Monday night on the Senate floor, the first step toward a vote to change the chamber’s rules later this week that would allow group confirmations […]
New video footage shows there was more to the skirmish last week between a protester and Rep. Tim Burchett, which ended with the Tennessee Republican forcefully shoving the man. Burchett characterized the encounter at the time as a heated verbal exchange that grew physical when the demonstrator got in the lawmaker’s face and “bumped” him. […]
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said he was compelled to publicly dress down Vice President JD Vance, a fellow Republican and former colleague, over the “disdain for human life” shown Saturday in an online post praising a deadly strike on alleged drug traffickers. After Vance said the strike on a small Venezuelan boat was the “highest […]
House Republicans are inching closer together on a plan to fund the government, with a key GOP hard-liner suggesting he could tolerate a short-term punt before funding runs out Sept. 30. Maryland Rep. Andy Harris, who chairs the House Freedom Caucus and for weeks has pushed for a year-long continuing resolution, said in a brief […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries chose California Rep. Eric Swalwell to lead Democrats on a newly formed subcommittee to re-investigate events surrounding the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Jeffries also picked Reps. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) and Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) to sit on the panel, which was initiated by the House GOP as […]
Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday revised his claim last week that President Donald Trump was an “FBI informant” in the Jeffrey Epstein case, telling reporters that he possibly didn’t use the “right terminology.” “What I was referring to in that long conversation was what the victims’ attorney said more than a decade ago,” Johnson said, […]
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has received files from the estate of the late Jeffrey Epstein, according to a Democratic spokesperson for the panel. Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) previously subpoenaed the estate for materials as part of his committee’s investigation into the Department of Justice’s handling of the case against the convicted sex […]
President Donald Trump offered support Monday for GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s push to circumvent House Republican leaders and force a vote on a congressional stock trading ban. Trump on Monday morning shared a post on Truth Social with a video of Luna’s pushing her promised discharge petition that would force a House vote on […]