Category: Congress
October 23, 2025
Congress
Obamacare ‘auto-enrollees’ are key target as Republicans formulate tax-credit extension plan
As Republicans formulate a plan to potentially extend key health insurance subsidies that are at the center of the government shutdown fight, House Energy and Commerce Chair Brett Guthrie...
October 23, 2025
Congress
Blaming Democrats, Johnson won’t bring House back to pay air traffic controllers
Speaker Mike Johnson said he won’t bring the House back to vote to pay air traffic controllers and other essential employees, saying the measure “would be spiked in the...
October 23, 2025
Congress
101 Republicans to defend community finance program from Trump cuts
More than 100 Republican lawmakers are expected to sign on to a letter pushing back on the Trump administration’s move to eliminate a popular, bipartisan community development finance fund...
October 23, 2025
Congress
Capitol agenda: Senators start getting stir-crazy as shutdown drags on
The shutdown is going into next week — at least. And senators are getting restless. There’s little hope of movement anytime soon, with President Donald Trump leaving Washington Friday...
October 23, 2025
Congress
How Senate Republicans finally said ‘no’ to Ingrassia
GOP senators had sent signals to the administration since the summer that Paul Ingrassia lacked the support for confirmation, in a rare rebuke to President Donald Trump.
October 23, 2025
Congress
Food-aid cliff bears down on Democrats as shutdown nears 1-month mark
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which helps feed more than 40 million people, will start to run out of funds Nov. 1.
October 22, 2025
Congress
Jeff Merkley wraps up marathon speech warning of ‘authoritarian’ rule
Sen. Jeff Merkley yielded the Senate floor after more than 22 hours Wednesday, capping off an overnight protest against the Trump administration. The Oregon Democrat began speaking at 6:21...
October 22, 2025
Congress
Thune meets with GOP senators on post-shutdown path
Senate Majority Leader John Thune met with a group of GOP senators on Wednesday as Republicans quietly discuss possible paths forward on health care once the government reopens. The...
October 22, 2025
Congress
GOP leaders eye a spending punt into 2026
Republican congressional leaders are making plans for a new spending punt as the shutdown drags on, and any new version is likely to postpone the next deadline until 2026....
October 22, 2025
Congress
K Street rakes in hundreds of millions off of Trump upheaval
Firms with ties to the president are the new rainmakers.