President-elect Donald Trump endorsed a new Republican deal Thursday afternoon to avert a government shutdown and raise the nation’s debt limit for two years, after sinking the bipartisan agreement Speaker Mike Johnson originally struck with Democrats. “All Republicans, and even the Democrats, should do what is best for our Country and vote ‘YES’ for this […]
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Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, the focus of a House Ethics Committee report that may soon become public, is planning to inflict fresh pain on some of his old colleagues. A number of Republican lawmakers are preparing to help. Gaetz this week floated a plan that would force the disclosure of House members who were the […]
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The Senate has not yet voted on whether to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the government’s health agencies, but Republicans in the chamber are already gearing up to push Kennedy’s agenda on Capitol Hill. Five GOP senators said Thursday they’d created a caucus to promote the ideals of Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” […]
President-elect Donald Trump is calling on eager Texans to consider a primary challenge to conservative Rep. Chip Roy. “Chip Roy is just another ambitious guy, with no talent,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social on Thursday. “I hope some talented challengers are getting ready in the Great State of Texas to go after […]
The collapse of Congress’ spending negotiations is throwing the presidential transition and preparations for President-elect Donald Trump’s second inauguration into chaos as Washington stares down the prospect of a government shutdown just after midnight Friday. Federal agencies only this week began briefing the Trump transition’s “landing teams,” which began their work more than a month […]
Speaker Mike Johnson is bending to President-elect Donald Trump’s demands in his latest bid to avoid a government shutdown in less than 36 hours and help save his job. GOP lawmakers are skeptical he can pull it off. There’s no final plan yet, as the Lousiana Republican continues to huddle in his office on Thursday […]
The Senate is in limbo as it waits for the House to piece together its crumbling government-funding strategy. Soon-to-be GOP Leader John Thune told reporters Thursday morning his understanding is that Vice President-elect JD Vance and Speaker Mike Johnson are “trying to work it out” and that the “action is in the House.” Thune added […]
High prices may have cost Democrats the election, but the U.S. economy has powered through 2024 with better-than-expected growth. And now President-elect Donald Trump is poised to inherit it. GDP rose at a 3.1 percent annualized pace in the third quarter of the year, according to Commerce Department data released Thursday, after growing at a […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries appeared to shut down Republicans’ push to raise the debt ceiling in a Thursday morning social media post. “GOP extremists want House Democrats to raise the debt ceiling so that House Republicans can lower the amount of your Social Security check. Hard pass,” he posted on his Bluesky account. Jeffries’ […]