Sunday

06-09-2026 Vol 19

Category: Congress

Trump sends Congress his ‘anomaly’ wish list ahead of shutdown deadline

The White House sent Congress a list Tuesday of special exceptions it wants lawmakers to include in any funding stopgap to keep agencies open past the upcoming Sept. 30...

House GOP waiting on Trump for spending cues, Johnson says

Speaker Mike Johnson, addressing House Republicans behind closed doors just three weeks before the government is set to shut down, said he and other GOP leaders are waiting on...

Capitol agenda: Why this ‘nuclear’ strike isn’t blowing up the Senate

Senate Republicans are ready to “go nuclear” this week after failing to reach a deal with Democrats to clear a backlog of some 150 of President Donald Trump’s nominees....

Blast radius of Senate GOP’s latest ‘nuclear’ move could be limited

Lawmakers do not appear headed toward the kind of bitter showdown that marked previous nomination battles.

Video footage sheds more light on Burchett’s tussle with protester

New video footage shows there was more to the skirmish last week between a protester and Rep. Tim Burchett, which ended with the Tennessee Republican forcefully shoving the man....

Vance post on boat strike ‘really ticked me off,’ Rand Paul says

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said he was compelled to publicly dress down Vice President JD Vance, a fellow Republican and former colleague, over the "disdain for human life" shown...

Key House GOP hard-liner doesn’t rule out short-term shutdown punt

House Republicans are inching closer together on a plan to fund the government, with a key GOP hard-liner suggesting he could tolerate a short-term punt before funding runs out...

Swalwell picked to lead Democrats on new Jan. 6 panel

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries chose California Rep. Eric Swalwell to lead Democrats on a newly formed subcommittee to re-investigate events surrounding the riot at the Capitol on Jan....

House Oversight receives Epstein estate files, including ‘birthday book’

Democrats have posted a photo of the provocative message the president allegedly wrote.

Johnson says he didn’t use ‘right terminology’ in calling Trump an Epstein ‘informant‘

Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday revised his claim last week that President Donald Trump was an "FBI informant" in the Jeffrey Epstein case, telling reporters that he possibly didn't...