Friday

06-03-2026 Vol 19

Category: Congress

Murkowski suggests she could become an Independent in the right circumstance

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, one of President Donald Trump’s most vocal critics in the Senate GOP, said in a podcast on Monday that there are certain situations in which...

House Democrats needle the GOP over Jan. 6 with replica plaques

Several House Democrats are posting replicas of a commemorative plaque for police officers who defended the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection — needling Speaker Mike Johnson for...

Oz nudges Senate Republicans to ease off on Medicaid cuts

CMS chief Dr. Mehmet Oz just indicated to a group of GOP chiefs of staff that they should stick with language closer to the House megabill’s Medicaid language, especially...

Trump federal court nominee Bove to testify Wednesday

Emil Bove will appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday for his nomination to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Trump nominated Bove, his principal associate deputy attorney...

Democrats set to target multiple Senate GOP tax provisions

Senate Finance Committee staff is expected to meet Monday with Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough Monday, with Republicans and Democrats presenting competing cases for whether health provisions of the pending...

Senate GOP unlikely to release revised megabill text Monday

Senate Republicans are unlikely to release full revised text of their sweeping domestic-policy bill Monday as they had hoped, according to three people granted anonymity to discuss internal dynamics,...

GAO is targeted by House Republicans in new spending bill

House Republicans are aiming to slash funding for the nonpartisan watchdog for waste, fraud and abuse within the federal government by nearly half in the next fiscal year, according...

Capitol agenda: How Johnson may block an Iran rebuke

President Donald Trump already had Republicans scrambling to get their “big, beautiful bill” to his desk by next week. Now he’s got Congress grappling with something even bigger: the...

Ro Khanna: Democrats lost 2024 because they became the ‘party of war,’ overlooked inflation

The progressive from California said in a POLITICO podcast that Democrats’ stance on Israel hurt their chances with young voters.

A judge sided with Trump. Behind the scenes, he was lobbying for a nomination.

Ed Artau was already meeting with Senate staff about securing a nomination to the federal bench when he sided with Trump in a case, according to a new Senate...