Tuesday

21-10-2025 Vol 19

Category: Congress

Capitol agenda: GOP expectations on Trump’s speech

Congressional Republicans are giving Trump a long leash at his joint address tonight despite mounting backlash in their districts to his Washington disruptions. GOP lawmakers widely agreed they’d like...

Fix to doctors’ payment cuts under Medicare in play for stopgap funding measure

House Republican leadership is open to including language in a stopgap government funding bill that would prevent cuts in pay for doctors treating patients under Medicare, a key lawmaker...

Senate GOP won’t take up House budget resolution until at least late March

Senate Republicans’ work to resolve differences with the House on a budget blueprint will slip until late March at least, with the chamber not expected to bring up the...

Bill restricting transgender student athletes stalls in the Senate

The Senate failed to advance a measure to restrict transgender students from playing on women’s sports teams on a 51-45 procedural vote Monday evening. No Democrats joined Republicans in...

Not much progress on Senate-House budget talks

Senate GOP leadership staffers indicated to rank-and-file GOP offices Monday that they aren’t even close to resolving Senate demands on the House budget plan, according to two people who...

Top GOP appropriators waffle on ‘full-year’ funding patch Trump endorsed

Top Republican appropriators both said Monday they are pursuing a “two-track strategy” for avoiding a shutdown in less than two weeks — a sign that the lead negotiators in...

Ways and Means committee to start drafting plans for enacting Trump tax agenda next week

House Ways and Means Republicans are tentatively scheduled on March 10 and 12 to start drafting the GOP’s party-line bill enacting President Donald Trump's tax agenda, according to a...

Trump blames town hall drama on paid ‘troublemakers’

President Donald Trump on Monday dismissed a spate of contentious town halls that congressional Republicans have faced in recent weeks as being the work of “paid ‘troublemakers.’” Trump’s Truth...

Capitol agenda: Johnson’s two major challenges

Speaker Mike Johnson has a new challenge as he works on the specifics of President Donald Trump’s agenda: navigating the competing assurances he made to various GOP factions. Johnson...

Democrats plan a different kind of response to Trump’s big speech

Their less pugilistic approach is the latest sign the party is still coming to terms with how to confront the president.