Thursday

05-03-2026 Vol 19

Category: Congress

Senate Democrats urge DOJ to drop plan to repay some Jan. 6 defendants

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are urging the Justice Department to abandon arguments that the government must refund thousands of dollars in restitution payments to members of the...

The key Republican warning about a megabill Medicaid fallout

David Valadao knows a thing or two about taking politically toxic votes around health care.

House office complex to get major food overhaul

The House side of the Capitol complex is getting a major overhaul of its restaurants, with vendor Sodexo out after a 10-year run. Beginning in August, Metz Culinary Management...

Democrats push for IG probe as Trump targets Harvard’s tax status

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and three other Democratic senators are urging the IRS’s watchdog to investigate whether the Trump administration is illegally pressuring the agency to strip Harvard...

Capitol agenda: A glimpse of GOP pushback

Hill Republicans are delivering a flurry of rare rebukes of the Trump administration, in the latest sign that the president doesn’t have complete control over the GOP governing trifecta....

Ed Martin, Trump’s controversial U.S. attorney pick, on thin ice in the Senate

President Trump’s pick to be Washington’s top prosecutor appears to be in trouble with Senate Republicans. No GOP senator has said they will oppose Ed Martin to be U.S....

Impeachment snafu prompts a friendly reminder to House Democratic aides

A top aide to Rep. Jerry Nadler reminded fellow Democratic staffers to let each other know when their bosses sign on to bills after several lawmakers removed themselves as...

Crockett starts stumping for Oversight post, telling colleagues she’s ‘made for the moment’

Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas has started pitching fellow Democrats on a run for the party's top Oversight Committee position, according to two people familiar with the situation. Crockett's...

What Wall Street is watching in the GOP megabill

Congressional Republicans are rushing to advance the crown jewel of President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda — a sweeping tax, energy and border package that they hope will be a...

Capitol agenda: Inside Trump’s hesitation on Medicaid

Make no mistake: Medicaid is at the center of the GOP’s challenges as they try to assemble their “big, beautiful” bill. And the problems start at the very top....