Category: Congress
January 17, 2025
Congress
GOP budget menu outlines sweeping spending cuts
A detailed menu of options for blockbuster legislation including tax cuts and other GOP priorities, obtained by POLITICO, shows the extent to which lawmakers are putting dozens of federal...
January 17, 2025
Congress
What we’re watching: Trump’s busy weekend in Washington
Here’s what we’re watching in transition world today: 🗓️ What we're watching President-elect Donald Trump’s transition, which kicked off at an expeditious pace with his naming of top Cabinet...
January 17, 2025
Congress
China will dispatch an envoy to Trump’s inauguration
China will send an envoy, Vice President Han Zheng, to Donald Trump’s inauguration as president, the country’s foreign ministry said in a news release. Karoline Leavitt, who will serve...
January 17, 2025
Congress
Energy and Commerce readies first hearings
The House Energy and Commerce Committee has settled on the themes for its first hearings of the new Congress, focusing on bolstering U.S. innovations and advancements in domestic wireless...
January 16, 2025
Congress
Garland’s message to DOJ staffers: ‘You have worked to pursue justice, not politics’
Attorney General Merrick Garland bid farewell to the Justice Department Thursday with an unmistakable call to its career staff to resist any efforts by the incoming Trump administration to...
January 16, 2025
Congress
Former Trump HHS official Paul Mango dies
Paul Mango, a former Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate and senior health official during President-elect Donald Trump’s first term who was advising on the current transition, has died. Mango’s death was...
January 16, 2025
Congress
Trump nominates special envoys to… Hollywood 🎬
President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday tapped three new special ambassadors — but not to a foreign nation or policy area. Actors Jon Voight, Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone will...
January 16, 2025
Congress
Energy and Commerce GOP meets on reconciliation plans
House Energy and Commerce Republicans met Thursday to shape their strategy for energy portions of the GOP’s budget reconciliation bill — including clawing back climate spending approved by Democrats....
January 16, 2025
Congress
Dozens of House Dems back GOP immigration bill related to sex crimes
More than 60 House Democrats backed a GOP bill that would make sexual and domestic violence deportable offenses, marking the second bipartisan immigration bill to pass the chamber this...
January 16, 2025
Congress
Get ready for a 🥶🥶🥶 Inauguration Day
Prepare to freeze at Donald Trump’s inauguration. It’s forecasted to be the coldest Inauguration Day since President Ronald Reagan’s second swearing-in ceremony in 1985 (temperature: A cool 7 degrees)....