Senate Majority Leader John Thune says Congress will need a short-term spending bill to prevent a shutdown Oct. 1, with leadership allies likely to push for a patch running up until the holidays. The South Dakota Republican’s comments in an interview Wednesday reveal how Republicans are already thinking about their strategy for the fall funding […]
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House Republicans largely shrugged off a new report that President Donald Trump’s name was in the Epstein files. “We were with him last night. He’s fine. He’s gonna release everything,” said Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), who’s been pushing for a vote on a non-binding GOP resolution calling for the release of documents related to Jeffrey […]
House food service workers, with support from Democratic lawmakers, called for a boycott of some Capitol complex restaurants Thursday — demanding that incoming dining subcontractors maintain the previous union-negotiated base pay and benefits. Congressional Labor Caucus co-chairs Reps. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.), Donald Norcross (D-N.J.) and Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) joined food service employees in front of […]
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Wednesday that Speaker Mike Johnson has to figure out a way forward on the Jeffrey Epstein controversy that’s derailed House business until the fall. “In some fashion, in some way, he’s going to have to handle it and deal with it,” Thune said during an interview from his Senate […]
House Oversight Chair James Comer sent a subpoena to Jeffrey Epstein associate and convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, compelling her testimony before Congress on Aug. 11. The Kentucky Republican said the Department of Justice was cooperating with the request and would help facilitate the interview at a Tallahassee federal prison next month. Comer told […]
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said Wednesday that GOP leadership will work on advancing long-awaited permitting reform legislation this fall. The current “approach” is a standalone bill that, ideally, would be the product of a bipartisan deal with Democrats, Scalise said in an interview. “There is a lot of interest in getting that done, and […]
Majority Leader Steve Scalise said Wednesday that House Republicans will address remaining issues around the Jeffrey Epstein case after lawmakers return from recess in September, if more information doesn’t come out first. Scalise said in an interview that the House is waiting on the Trump administration to work on releasing Epstein-related grand jury information through […]
Speaker Mike Johnson is on the defensive as he prepares to let the House leave early for August recess rather than allow his conference be hammered further by agitation on both sides of the aisle over votes to release the Jeffrey Epstein files. The Louisiana Republican Wednesday afternoon insisted, “no one in Congress is blocking […]
Democrats are hoping to jam Republicans with Jeffrey Epstein-related amendments ahead of a Thursday Appropriations subpanel markup, according to two senior Democratic aides granted anonymity. The Epstein issue had already scuttled the House floor schedule for the remainder of the week, leading Speaker Mike Johnson to send the House home early for their five-week summer […]
Democrats are facing a redistricting problem as Republicans in Texas — and potentially other states — are redrawing their maps to create more Republican-leaning seats. But state Democrats say that the real problem is the party doesn’t do enough to try to flip state legislatures and put Democrats in charge of redrawing the lines in […]