Saturday

18-10-2025 Vol 19

Category: Congress

Capitol agenda: Johnson’s budget dare, RFK Jr. confirmation vote

Speaker Mike Johnson is daring conservatives to sink his budget resolution, setting up a make-or-break moment in the House Budget Committee later today. The speaker emerged from hours of...

Key committee could advance stalled health policy overhaul

The House Energy and Commerce Committee is giving a significant platform to revived, bipartisan talks on legislation to lower prescription drug costs, according to a staff memo reviewed by...

Top House appropriator says spending talks still on track

The top appropriators of the House and Senate are still pursuing a bipartisan spending agreement ahead of the March 14 deadline to avoid a government shutdown — barely a...

Energy and Commerce Committee’s Medicaid problem just got tougher

It was always going to be tough for House Energy and Commerce Chair Brett Guthrie to rally his members around cuts to Medicaid; his job could soon get even...

Vance, Miller and Vought backing two-bill reconciliation strategy; Bessent pushing one

Vice President JD Vance, White House policy chief Stephen Miller and budget chief Russ Vought are among those in the Trump administration pushing for a two-bill approach on reconciliation,...

House budget resolution in limbo as conservatives push deeper spending cuts and work requirements

A planned markup on House GOP leaders' budget plan is less than 24 hours away — and they currently don't have the votes to pass it. The House Budget...

Dems fail to land viral moment at DOGE hearing

The highly anticipated first meeting of the House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency, or DOGE, came and went on Wednesday with scarce political drama. Democrats sought to cast...

Tulsi Gabbard confirmed as director of national intelligence

Republican Senator Mitch McConnell broke with his party to vote against her.

Senate gets moving on two-track budget plan

The Senate Budget Committee is marking up its its signature piece of legislation — the reconciliation-unlocking budget resolution — in its race against House counterparts to identify the best...

House GOP budget still not final

House Budget Committee members are still debating key final details of the fiscal blueprint for Republicans’ massive domestic policy bill, with GOP leaders still hoping to release text of...