Category: Congress
May 05, 2025
Congress
Capitol agenda: Crypto chaos hits the Senate
The GOP’s tax cut megabill isn’t the only one of President Donald Trump's priorities in jeopardy on Capitol Hill. Republicans have an unexpected crypto problem, too. Crypto turmoil is...
May 02, 2025
Congress
Hard-liners’ Medicaid letter has ties to GOP think tank
A letter signed by 20 hard-line House Republicans calling for deep cuts to Medicaid in the GOP’s domestic policy megabill appears to be written at least in part by...
May 02, 2025
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...
May 02, 2025
Congress
The key Republican warning about a megabill Medicaid fallout
David Valadao knows a thing or two about taking politically toxic votes around health care.
May 02, 2025
Congress
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...
May 02, 2025
Congress
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...
May 02, 2025
Congress
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....
May 01, 2025
Congress
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....
May 01, 2025
Congress
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...
May 01, 2025
Congress
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...