Several former Republican governors in the Senate have sounded alarms over a controversial House GOP plan to help pay for the Trump megabill by pushing billions in federal food aid costs to states. Now there’s a would-be governor raising similar concerns. Behind the scenes in recent days, Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama raised issues over […]
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Lawmakers in charge of funding the government grilled President Donald Trump’s budget director on Wednesday about why he hasn’t yet sent a full request to Congress. With less than four months left in the fiscal year — and until the next government shutdown deadline — White House budget director Russ Vought has yet to deliver […]
Questions are swirling about whether the Senate’s parliamentarian will kill a major tax increase in Republicans’ megabill — potentially blowing a big hole in their plans. Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough could decide that a $116 billion provision raising taxes on foreign companies violates the chamber’s internal rules about what may go into a reconciliation measure, which […]
House Oversight Chair James Comer is broadening his investigation into former President Joe Biden’s mental decline. Comer on Wednesday asked five senior Biden White House aides to appear for transcribed interviews with his committee: former senior adviser Mike Donilon, former senior adviser Anita Dunn, former chief of staff Ron Klain, former deputy chief of staff […]
The top two congressional Republicans rebutted Elon Musk’s criticism of their “big, beautiful bill” Wednesday as the tech mogul and former Trump administration cost-cutter continued attacking the GOP legislation overnight. Speaker Mike Johnson spent several minutes during a closed-door House Republican Conference meeting on Wednesday morning pushing back on Musk and trying to reassure Republicans […]
The Senate Judiciary Committee is launching the confirmation process for the first judicial nominations of President Donald Trump’s second term. The panel Wednesday morning opened a hearing for Whitney D. Hermandorfer, Trump’s nominee for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, and four other district court judges in Missouri: Maria A. Lanahan, Cristian M. Stevens and […]
Senate Majority Leader John Thune and his tax writers will huddle with President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday as Republicans race to resolve a growing list of tax policy disputes in their megabill. Thune detailed what to expect in an exclusive interview with POLITICO: BUSINESS TAX PERMANENCE: Thune emphasized that one of […]
John Thune is wasting no time moving President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” through the Senate. The Senate majority leader laid out a rat-a-tat tempo for the coming weeks in an exclusive interview with POLITICO that he hopes will culminate in final passage of the party-line megabill by Republicans’ July 4 deadline. Senate committees will […]
Republican allies close to the White House are privately arguing that the former special government employee — who spent Tuesday afternoon blasting the spending bill and threatening to retaliate against its supporters — is opposing the bill because it harms the tech billionaire’s business interests. The House-passed megabill represents the president’s chief — and potentially […]
Elon Musk’s bashing of President Donald Trump’s megabill sparked some conflict with congressional Republicans. But some deficit hawks were thrilled. Several hard-liners rejoiced at Musk’s comments on X on Tuesday — calling the House-passed GOP megabill a “massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill” and a “disgusting abomination.” “These numbers are nothing short of stunning,” Sen. […]