Friday

06-03-2026 Vol 19

Category: Congress

July 4 or bust for megabill, top Trump aide tells senators

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles is encouraging Congress to get the "big, beautiful bill" to President Donald Trump's desk by July 4. Wiles told GOP senators at...

Thune eyes mid-week start for megabill

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Wednesday the chamber will "hopefully" take up the GOP's party-line megabill starting in the middle of next week. GOP leaders have been tentatively...

Democrats walk out of Senate Judiciary hearing probing Biden’s mental fitness

Democrats are refusing to participate in the first congressional hearing focusing on allegations of former President Joe Biden’s mental decline while in the White House. Only Sens. Dick Durbin...

‘The reality we live in:’ Lawmakers consider what they’d sacrifice for safety

As threats to lawmakers and their families persist and intensify, members of Congress are grappling with what steps they’re willing to take to ensure their safety.

Capitol agenda: Members clash over increasing their own security

Lawmakers confronting a rise in political violence are grappling over whether to use more tax dollars for their own protection, even as Republicans search for deep cuts across the...

Doubts abound for Thune’s aggressive megabill timeline

A host of concerns inside the GOP are threatening the majority leader's grand July 4 plan.

Padilla says Trump is on a ‘tour of retribution’ in first post-handcuffing floor speech

Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) castigated President Donald Trump as a “vindictive president on a tour of retribution” and warned of what the administration was doing to Americans around the...

Interest-rate spike would push megabill cost to $2.8T, CBO says in ‘dynamic’ score

The sweeping domestic policy package House Republicans passed last month would increase the U.S. deficit by $2.8 trillion over a decade when considering economic effects, according to Congress’ nonpartisan...

‘Insensitive, to say the least’: Mike Lee deletes Minnesota posts amid GOP criticism

Utah Sen. Mike Lee, amid widespread outrage, has deleted a pair of social media posts associating the deadly Minnesota shootings last weekend with "Marxists” and the state's Democratic governor....

Vance on the megabill: ‘We’re in a good place to get this done by the July 4 recess’

Vice President JD Vance expressed confidence Congress could deliver President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” by July 4 as he left a closed-door lunch with GOP senators Tuesday at...