Category: Congress
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...
May 01, 2025
Congress
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...
May 01, 2025
Congress
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....
May 01, 2025
Congress
Financial Services Republicans approve CFPB cuts for GOP megabill
House Financial Services Republicans approved legislation Wednesday that would slash funding for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and dissolve the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board into the Securities and...
April 30, 2025
Congress
Senate Republicans block rebuke of Trump’s tariffs
A Democratic effort to rebuff President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs failed Wednesday, thanks to two absent senators. Senators voted 49-49 to reject the national emergency Trump used to...
April 30, 2025
Congress
Hurdles remain for Republicans’ Medicaid quest
After a meeting Wednesday afternoon with vulnerable House Republicans wary of Medicaid cuts, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) acknowledged there are still obstacles to enacting...
April 30, 2025
Congress
AOC says she is ‘weighing’ a bid to lead House Oversight Democrats
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Wednesday she is considering a run for House Democrats' top position on the Oversight Committee. "It's something that I'm weighing, but the seat is not...