Category: Congress
February 25, 2025
Congress
Trump’s latest budget nominee avows funding freeze, pledges to follow Vought
The Senate began its public vetting on Tuesday of President Donald Trump’s pick for the No. 2 post at the White House budget office, a position key to carrying...
February 25, 2025
Congress
Prospects dim for reviving deal to grow the federal judiciary
Bipartisan talks to add judges to the federal judiciary are over — at least for now. At a Tuesday morning hearing of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual...
February 25, 2025
Congress
House budget plan advances to final floor vote
The House Republican approach to President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy agenda moved a step closer to approval after Republicans stayed united on a test vote, setting up a...
February 25, 2025
Congress
Democrats use committee hearing to rail against GOP Medicaid cuts and DOGE
Tensions are boiling over inside the typically bipartisan House Energy and Commerce Committee, with Democrats railing against Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency and the GOP’s plan to extend...
February 25, 2025
Congress
Cramer suffers ‘severe concussion’ after fall in North Dakota
Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) is recovering back in North Dakota after falling on Sunday and suffering a “severe concussion,” he said in a Facebook post. Cramer, who turned 64...
February 25, 2025
Congress
Cruz plans first tech subpoena
Amid some Republican pushback against Sen. Ted Cruz's efforts to gain unilateral subpoena power to haul Big Tech CEOs before his panel, the Senate Commerce chair now plans to...
February 25, 2025
Congress
Warren Davidson is the latest Republican to oppose the House budget
He joins at least three other Republicans who are leaning against Speaker Mike Johnson's plan. Still others are undecided.
February 25, 2025
Congress
Johnson brushes off Musk, but GOP budget holdouts stand firm
Speaker Mike Johnson said in a brief interview Tuesday he's not worried that a late-night post from Elon Musk signaling concerns with the GOP budget plan could tank support...
February 25, 2025
Congress
Top Committee Dem goes after Trump’s interim U.S. attorney
Rep. Gerry Connolly, the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, plans to investigate Washington’s top prosecutor for making threats against the Trump administration’s political adversaries...
February 25, 2025
Congress
Capitol agenda: Big, beautiful budget on life support
Mike Johnson has about 12 hours to get his conference behind his plan for enacting the president’s sweeping agenda. It’s not looking good. The speaker insists he’s not changing...