Category: Politics

The House Energy and Commerce Committee is giving a significant platform to revived, bipartisan talks on legislation to lower prescription drug costs, according to a staff memo reviewed by POLITICO. The committee’s health subcommittee, led by Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.), will hold a hearing on so-called “PBM reform” for Feb. 26, although that date could […]

The top appropriators of the House and Senate are still pursuing a bipartisan spending agreement ahead of the March 14 deadline to avoid a government shutdown — barely a month away. House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) said the so-called “four corners” spending leaders are getting closer to agreement, but are still “not there,” following […]

It was always going to be tough for House Energy and Commerce Chair Brett Guthrie to rally his members around cuts to Medicaid; his job could soon get even harder. The House GOP budget blueprint unveiled Wednesday would direct several congressional committees to achieve at least $1.5 trillion in spending cuts across programs under their […]

Vice President JD Vance, White House policy chief Stephen Miller and budget chief Russ Vought are among those in the Trump administration pushing for a two-bill approach on reconciliation, while Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is pushing for one, people familiar with their thinking, granted anonymity to share it, said Wednesday. Two of those familiar confirmed […]

The highly anticipated first meeting of the House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency, or DOGE, came and went on Wednesday with scarce political drama. Democrats sought to cast the subcommittee — a complementary effort to the so-called Department of Government Efficiency led by Elon Musk — as an extension of what they see as […]

A planned markup on House GOP leaders’ budget plan is less than 24 hours away — and they currently don’t have the votes to pass it. The House Budget Committee released text of their one-bill proposal to tackle the border, energy and taxes Wednesday morning, which includes $1.5 trillion in minimum spending cuts. The panel […]

The Senate Budget Committee is marking up its its signature piece of legislation — the reconciliation-unlocking budget resolution — in its race against House counterparts to identify the best path forward for turning President Donald Trump’s policy ambitions into law. While Congress has skipped a budget resolution in recent years, this year the measure is […]

House Budget Committee members are still debating key final details of the fiscal blueprint for Republicans’ massive domestic policy bill, with GOP leaders still hoping to release text of a budget resolution in the coming hours. Majority Leader Steve Scalise, arriving at the Capitol Wednesday, told reporters he still expects that text to be released […]