As the tax world pores over Republicans’ tax cuts, one question keeps coming up: What are we calling this? In a town that loves clever acronyms, tax pros are struggling to figure out how to talk about the new law, beginning with its name. The official title, at least before Democrats had it deleted from […]
It’s a pivotal week for the appropriations process as Congress looks to pass 12 spending bills before the Sept. 30 shutdown cliff. Expect the Senate to work on passing its first batch of bills over the next few days, with full committee markups continuing in both chambers. In the House, appropriators plan to have a […]
Democrats on Capitol Hill are furious with the Trump administration and their Republican counterparts for undercutting government funding negotiations, but they aren’t showing a unified strategy for forcing the GOP to change course 10 weeks out from a shutdown deadline. In the House, Republicans are ignoring Democratic priorities in government funding bills, moving forward with […]
Republicans are eyeing an opportunity to enact a bipartisan health package by the end of the year, but Democrats aren’t exactly in a deal-making mood. With the dust barely settled after enacting their party-line domestic policy megabill, GOP lawmakers on the Senate Finance, House Ways and Means and House Energy and Commerce committees are hoping […]
Congressional Republicans have passed Donald Trump’s $9 billion rescissions package, capping a painful ordeal that put even members who supported it in a tough spot. Now, many Republicans are wincing at the prospect of having to do it all over again. White House budget director Russ Vought said Thursday that a second request to rescind […]
Six months into Donald Trump’s presidency, Congress finally codified a small piece of the hundreds of billions of dollars his Department of Government Efficiency pinpointed as “waste.” House Republicans gave final approval just after midnight Friday to Trump’s proposal to claw back $9 billion in public media and foreign assistance, greenlighting the Senate’s changes to […]
House Republicans on the Rules Committee voted down a Democratic amendment Thursday night to advance a bipartisan bill calling for the release of documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein case, and instead unveiled their own non-binding resolution on the matter that won’t receive an immediate floor vote. The House GOP conference is under rising pressure […]
House Republicans are closing in on a measure to provide an outlet for the Jeffrey Epstein-related furor unfolding on Capitol Hill. On Thursday, Rules Committee Rep. Ralph Norman was the lone Republican on the panel who supported a Democratic amendment calling for the release of information around the case of Epstein, a sex predator. The […]
Former Rep. Bill Clay Sr. (D-Mo.), one of the 13 founding members of the Congressional Black Caucus and an icon in Missouri’s civil rights movement, died this week, the CBC said. “Congressman Clay helped build the CBC into a force for equity and accountability in American Democracy,” caucus Chair Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.) said Thursday in […]
House Republican leaders are under fierce internal pressure to send members home for the summer amid deepening anxiety over a possible vote on the Jeffrey Epstein controversy. Many GOP lawmakers fear being cornered by an expected “discharge petition” that would force a House vote on publicizing Epstein-related records. Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna […]