Category: Congress
February 13, 2025
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...
February 13, 2025
Congress
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...
February 13, 2025
Congress
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...
February 12, 2025
Congress
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...
February 12, 2025
Congress
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,...
February 12, 2025
Congress
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...
February 12, 2025
Congress
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...
February 12, 2025
Congress
Tulsi Gabbard confirmed as director of national intelligence
Republican Senator Mitch McConnell broke with his party to vote against her.
February 12, 2025
Congress
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...
February 12, 2025
Congress
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...