Wednesday

22-10-2025 Vol 19

Category: Congress

GOP holdouts push for Afghan visa changes in funding bill

House Republicans are set to adjust their stopgap spending bill in a bid to win over holdouts, stripping a planned increase in the number of available visas for Afghan...

Vought pushes for stopgap funding bill in GOP meeting

Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought met with some House Republicans Monday night, where he offered “full-throated support” for the seven-month funding patch, according to House Appropriations...

GOP Doctors Caucus chair: Johnson, Scalise ‘agree’ to address doctor pay in party-line bill

Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader Steve Scalise have pledged to address pay cuts for doctors treating Medicare patients in Republicans’ party-line package to enact broad swaths of President...

Details emerge on top Johnson aide’s DUI arrest

Speaker Mike Johnson’s chief of staff could not complete a sobriety test after twice striking a black Chevy Suburban with his white Tesla sedan, according to an affidavit from...

DC officials protest House stopgap, claiming billion-dollar impact on city

Top D.C. officials protested a House Republican-written funding patch outside the Capitol on Monday, saying the omission of routine language included in prior continuing resolutions could mean a de...

House Democrats set to hear from governors, pollsters and more at issues conference

House Democrats are set to hear from pollsters, governors and a former ambassador to the United Nations at their issues conference later this week, according to a schedule obtained...

Who are Johnson’s remaining GOP holdouts on the spending bill?

Speaker Mike Johnson is trying to muscle through a stopgap spending bill to avert a government shutdown, but he doesn't have the votes locked down yet. President Donald Trump...

Capitol agenda: Johnson’s shutdown dare for Schumer

Mike Johnson to Chuck Schumer on government funding: Your move. House Republicans are pushing a not-so-clean spending patch through September that would add billions of dollars for deportations, veterans’...

Frustrated Dems unleash the F-bombs

Profanity isn’t new in politics. But it’s reaching new heights on the left.

Funding bill skips measure to avert physician pay cuts, a blow to GOP Doctors Caucus

A key Republican said inclusion of the language would be a “line in the sand” necessary for his support.