Score one for the backers of “one big, beautiful bill.” House Republicans launched their budget plan out of committee Thursday night — the first legislative step toward fulfilling President Donald Trump’s policy agenda but at odds with the Senate’s continued pursuit of a “two-track” plan. The House Budget Committee voted to approve a budget resolution […]
Members of the House Freedom Caucus have succeeded in modifying the budget plan GOP leaders are using to set up their party-line package to deliver on President Donald Trump’s agenda. The House Budget Committee voted 21-16 on Thursday to adopt an amendment that would shrink the amount of tax cuts Republicans can enact if they […]
Sen. Lisa Murkowski rolled out legislation on Thursday to formally rename North America’s highest mountain as Denali — officially countering President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename it Mount McKinley. The bill, which fellow Republican Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan is co-sponsoring, would require the Alaska mountain to be referred to as Denali in any laws, […]
Three months ago, Mitch McConnell ran the Senate GOP. Now he’s going it alone as he wages battles against some of President Donald Trump’s highest-profile nominees. The Kentucky Republican became the only member of the Senate GOP’s 53-seat conference to oppose more than one Trump pick with his votes this week — first opposing Tulsi […]
Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Commerce — and implement the president’s sweeping trade and tariff agenda — is set for a full Senate confirmation vote in the coming days. The Senate voted to advance Howard Lutnick’s nomination Thursday afternoon, 52-45. It comes after the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee voted last […]
The Senate voted 72-28 on Thursday to confirm Brooke Rollins’ nomination to serve as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. All Republicans agreed to pass Rollins, but more Democrats voted against her than expected — including Sens. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), who initially helped advance her out of the Senate Agriculture Committee to […]
Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s controversial pick to lead the FBI, was voted out of committee along party lines on Thursday morning. The 12-10 vote from the Senate Judiciary Committee paves the way for Patel to be confirmed by the full Senate in the coming weeks, when he’ll take the helm of the federal law […]
The Senate confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a 52-48 vote Thursday to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. He will be sworn in later today. Every Republican voted in favor except former Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who joined Democrats for the third time in opposing one of President Donald Trump’s nominees. […]
Speaker Mike Johnson said the House GOP budget resolution will advance out of the Budget Committee today with no Republican defections, despite protests from key hard-liners. “I expect it to pass — unanimously,” Johnson told reporters as he entered the Capitol on Thursday. After weeks of delays, the Budget panel is meeting later this morning […]
Speaker Mike Johnson is daring conservatives to sink his budget resolution, setting up a make-or-break moment in the House Budget Committee later today. The speaker emerged from hours of talks Wednesday with two hard-liner holdouts — Reps. Chip Roy and Ralph Norman, both House Freedom Caucus members who also serve on the Budget Committee — […]