Senators are wading into the thorny issue of whether to “lock the clock” — that is, end the practice of changing the time twice a year to account for the shifting seasons. At a hearing Thursday, Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz said there was general consensus among his colleagues that Americans should stop changing the […]
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Despite a partial U-turn, Senate Democrats are vowing to move forward and put their GOP colleagues on the record on President Donald Trump’s latest tariffs. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), a lead author of a resolution that would overturn the basis for Trump’s global levies announced last week, said in an interview Thursday that Democrats still […]
House Republican who derailed a critical budget vote will meet Thursday morning to plot their next moves, as they try to extract deeper spending cuts in the framework for President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” The clock is ticking as Speaker Mike Johnson plans to bring the House back to the floor within the hour […]
Donald Trump and Mike Johnson failed to convince enough deficit hawks to back the latest budget plan for the president’s agenda — forcing the speaker to punt his planned Wednesday vote on the resolution and sending House leadership scrambling for a compromise that could satisfy hard-liners’ demands for more spending cuts. Now, the speaker is […]
Democrats are plotting a fresh round of town halls in GOP-held districts to hammer Republicans for scaling back open forums amid backlash to the Trump administration’s cuts. Top of their town-hall target list over the upcoming recess, according to information shared first with POLITICO: the North Carolina district of NRCC Chair Richard Hudson, who told […]
The House passed legislation Wednesday that would limit the power of lower court judges to issue orders with broad national implications amid a rash of rulings to halt the Trump administration’s agenda. Members voted 219-213 on the No Rogue Rulings Act, with just one Republican joining Democrats in opposition. It represents House GOP leadership’s latest […]
House Republicans are making new moves to ensure a slew of clean energy tax credits benefitting red districts and states around the country are preserved in a final party-line package. House Conservative Climate Caucus Chair Mariannette Miller-Meeks met earlier this week with House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith (R-Mo.) to underscore the importance of […]
Rep. Elise Stefanik said Wednesday she will rejoin the House Republican leadership, albeit at a lower rung, after being forced to abandon her nomination as ambassador to the United Nations. Stefanik previously served as GOP conference chair, the No. 4 leadership position, before abandoning the post when Donald Trump tapped her last year as president-elect […]
House Republicans want to ratify President Donald Trump’s efforts to rename the Gulf of Mexico. Democrats have other ideas. At a House Natural Resources Committee markup Wednesday of legislation from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to formally redesignate the oceanic basin as the “Gulf of America,” Democrats threw out alternative suggestions, forcing Republicans to take […]
Democrats are sharply divided over trade. But Donald Trump is helping them paper over those rifts. The steep, sweeping tariffs the president unveiled in recent days have largely united a party that has for years undergone bruising internal battles over trade. From populists in the Rust Belt to free-trade champions in blue states, Democrats are […]