Category: Congress
June 23, 2025
Congress
Senate GOP unlikely to release revised megabill text Monday
Senate Republicans are unlikely to release full revised text of their sweeping domestic-policy bill Monday as they had hoped, according to three people granted anonymity to discuss internal dynamics,...
June 23, 2025
Congress
GAO is targeted by House Republicans in new spending bill
House Republicans are aiming to slash funding for the nonpartisan watchdog for waste, fraud and abuse within the federal government by nearly half in the next fiscal year, according...
June 23, 2025
Congress
Capitol agenda: How Johnson may block an Iran rebuke
President Donald Trump already had Republicans scrambling to get their “big, beautiful bill” to his desk by next week. Now he’s got Congress grappling with something even bigger: the...
June 21, 2025
Congress
Ro Khanna: Democrats lost 2024 because they became the ‘party of war,’ overlooked inflation
The progressive from California said in a POLITICO podcast that Democrats’ stance on Israel hurt their chances with young voters.
June 20, 2025
Congress
A judge sided with Trump. Behind the scenes, he was lobbying for a nomination.
Ed Artau was already meeting with Senate staff about securing a nomination to the federal bench when he sided with Trump in a case, according to a new Senate...
June 20, 2025
Congress
Ohio man arrested in investigation into GOP Rep. Max Miller being ‘run off the road’
Police arrested an Ohio man in their investigation into a Thursday road rage incident in which Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) said he was “run off the road” by a...
June 20, 2025
Congress
Rand Paul gets behind a judicial nominee he previously blocked
GOP Sen. Rand Paul is throwing his support behind a home-state judicial pick that he stalled three years ago as part of a feud with his fellow Kentuckian Mitch...
June 20, 2025
Congress
Provider tax crackdown is a no-go in the House, Hawley warns
Sen. Josh Hawley is urging GOP leaders to strike Senate Finance Committee language altering a key Medicaid financing provision, warning he's already hearing from House Republicans that it can't...
June 20, 2025
Congress
Parliamentarian nixes key pieces of Tim Scott’s megabill proposal
The Senate parliamentarian ruled Thursday that several key provisions in Banking Chair Tim Scott’s proposed contribution to the GOP’s “big beautiful bill” violate the upper chamber’s rules for the...
June 20, 2025
Congress
Capitol agenda: Rand Paul forces GOP into megabill runaround
Sen. Rand Paul is a frequent thorn in GOP leadership’s side. But his recent break over border security funding in President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” has top Republicans...