Friday

17-10-2025 Vol 19

Category: Congress

Johnson aims to announce GOP agenda framework on Friday, including permanent tax cuts

Speaker Mike Johnson said House Republicans are aiming to announce an overarching framework on their party-line agenda on Friday morning. It would include a permanent extension of the 2017...

Committee punts on Kash Patel vote as Democrats keep up the pressure

Democrats took advantage of the rules of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday to delay consideration of Kash Patel's nomination to lead the FBI — but broke some recent...

Democratic polling finds Elon Musk is unpopular

House Democrats have a plan to help them win back the working class: turn the world's richest person into their boogeyman. They’ve set their sights on holding Elon Musk...

Capitol agenda: The rundown on reconciliation, Vought vote, Netanyahu visit

Senate Republicans are forging ahead with their budget plan next week as Hill skepticism persists that Speaker Mike Johnson will be able to unify his conference around one mammoth...

House Democrats try, and fail, to subpoena Musk

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee moved to subpoena tech billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk at a hearing Wednesday — and one Democrat was conspicuously and missing from...

‘God bless Elon Musk’: How Jim Jordan plans to help the world’s richest man

Elon Musk has a White House office and growing pull across federal agencies. Now he's burrowed into the House Judiciary Committee.

Two Dem lawmakers barge into House speaker’s office in backlash against Musk

Reps. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) and Gwen Moore (D-Wisc.) barged into House Speaker Mike Johnson’s office unscheduled on Wednesday and challenged him about Elon Musk's team gaining access to a...

Progress made on House budget, key holdout says

A key ultraconservative holdout said Wednesday that enough progress has been made in stalled House budget talks that a blueprint needed to unlock President Donald Trump's domestic policy plans...

Senate panel will advance budget next week, Graham says

The Senate will move forward with a budget blueprint next week setting out a two-track approach to enacting President Donald Trump's domestic agenda, key senators said Wednesday. The announcement,...

Hispanic Democrats privately strategize how to counter Trump with immigration groups

Congressional Hispanic Caucus members met privately with immigration advocacy groups Tuesday night to strategize how to counter President Donald Trump’s executive actions that have already altered the immigration system....