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16-03-2026 Vol 19

Year: 2025

Capitol agenda: The GOP’s biggest shutdown hurdles

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...

Harvard University back in court Monday to battle Trump admin’s $2.6 billion funding cuts

US District Judge Allison Burroughs is due to hear oral arguments from Harvard and Justice Department lawyers after the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university sued the Trump administration for...

LA Mayor Bass dodges question on whether all illegal immigrants in city should be allowed to stay

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass repeatedly dodged answering directly on whether all illegal immigrants in the sanctuary city should be allowed to stay.  Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass repeatedly...

Pete Buttigieg’s DOT spent $80 billion on DEI grants, delayed air-traffic-control upgrades: records, industry insiders

What his department was really interested in was handing out hundreds of diversity, equity and inclusion grants totaling more than $80 billion over four years — at least half...

Democrats wrestle with shutdown strategy

Facing another funding cliff in 10 weeks, Democratic leaders are moderating their threats.

Republicans are ready to revive stalled health care legislation. Dems want the GOP to pay a price.

Democrats aren't rushing to play ball with Republicans on a bipartisan health care package after passage of the president's megabill and spending cuts.

NY awarded more than $600M to ‘sanctuary’ groups helping defy Trump, federal immigration law

Legal and migrant advocacy groups fighting to block New York from helping the Trump administration enforce US immigration laws have been awarded more than $600 million in taxpayer dollars...

Commerce chief Lutnick insists Aug. 1 is ‘hard deadline’ for EU and tariffs: ‘They’re going to start paying’

President Trump has threatened to slap a 30% tariff rate against the EU and a flurry of customized tariff rates on other countries that fail to cut a new...

Thune warns Schumer may let govt shut down as ‘struggling’ Dems scramble to appease far-left

Senate Majority Leader John Thune warned that Congress may be careening towards a partial government shutdown this fall because of pressure from the far left flank of the Democratic...

Beto O’Rourke weighing up Senate run after three election defeats as he calls on Dems to be ‘ruthless’

Former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke revealed that he's still mulling whether or not to jump into his state's Senate race amid incumbent Sen. John Cornyn's bruising primary battle. Former...