Sunday

06-09-2026 Vol 19

Category: Congress

Senate GOP confirms 48 Trump nominees under ‘nuclear’ move

Senate Republicans confirmed dozens of President Donald Trump’s nominees with one vote Thursday, days after changing the chamber’s rules along party lines to allow group consideration for most executive...

GOP pummels DC officials on local crime

The top three elected officials in the District of Columbia were on Capitol Hill Thursday to defend their management of local law enforcement activities. They were also on hand...

Eleanor Holmes Norton is facing her most serious political threat in decades

D.C. Council member Robert White, a former Norton aide, said Thursday he will challenge her in 2026.

GOP leaders consider Senate jam plan after House CR vote

House Republican leaders are discussing a plan to pass a seven-week stopgap funding measure Friday then not bring the House back into session until after the Oct. 1 shutdown...

Major anti-abortion group to brief GOP caucus on expiring Obamacare subsidies

House Republicans have invited a leading anti-abortion group to brief GOP staffers on the looming expiration of Obamacare subsidies, according to an invitation for the event viewed by POLITICO....

Nancy Mace and Cory Mills clash over failed censure vote

GOP Reps. Nancy Mace and Cory Mills are locked in an escalating personal clash over Mace’s failed effort to censure Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar for her response to the...

Capitol agenda: Democrats steer into a shutdown

Democrats are flirting with a shutdown. Their endgame is unclear. Democrats are rallying around a hard-line approach to try to bring Republicans to the table to strike a government...

Democrats’ shutdown endgame is sketchy as deadline looms

Party leaders hope a new offer will spark negotiations. That’s about as far as the plan goes.

Democrats unveil funding alternative to counter GOP in shutdown brawl

Preparing to tank the Republican plan to avert a funding lapse on Oct. 1, Democrats are offering their own proposal.

How 1 bureaucrat’s retirement could give Donald Trump new sway over Congress

The comptroller general of the Government Accountability office will step down in a few short months, leaving a void atop the agency that has found the White House guilty...