Saturday

06-06-2026 Vol 19

Category: Congress

Dems plan more town halls in GOP districts for recess

Democrats are plotting a fresh round of town halls in GOP-held districts to hammer Republicans for scaling back open forums amid backlash to the Trump administration’s cuts. Top of...

Capitol agenda: A brutal blow for Johnson and Trump

Donald Trump and Mike Johnson failed to convince enough deficit hawks to back the latest budget plan for the president’s agenda — forcing the speaker to punt his planned...

House passes national injunction bill

The House passed legislation Wednesday that would limit the power of lower court judges to issue orders with broad national implications amid a rash of rulings to halt the...

Stefanik rejoins House GOP leadership

Rep. Elise Stefanik said Wednesday she will rejoin the House Republican leadership, albeit at a lower rung, after being forced to abandon her nomination as ambassador to the United...

House Republicans pitch chamber’s top tax writer on sparing clean energy tax credits

House Republicans are making new moves to ensure a slew of clean energy tax credits benefitting red districts and states around the country are preserved in a final party-line...

Dems mock GOP attempts to rename Gulf of Mexico

House Republicans want to ratify President Donald Trump’s efforts to rename the Gulf of Mexico. Democrats have other ideas. At a House Natural Resources Committee markup Wednesday of legislation...

‘Stop making up math’: GOP holdouts dig in as Trump presses on House budget

Key GOP holdouts held firm against approval of a budget framework for Donald Trump's "big, beautiful" domestic policy bill even as the president continued working to quell the revolt...

‘Keep it simple’: Democrats unite around Trump’s tariff misfire

The party has disagreed over tariff policy in the past, but has found common ground lately

Former Rep. Wiley Nickel is launching a Senate bid in North Carolina — giving hope to Democrats

Former Democratic Rep. Wiley Nickel is kicking off a bid to challenge North Carolina Republican Sen. Thom Tillis. The attorney and former Obama administration staffer, who served one term...

Democratic group hammers Trump, Republicans over tax plans in new ad

A Democratic group formed to counter Donald Trump’s tax policies is launching a Tax Day-themed ad criticizing the administration and Republican lawmakers over potentially pursuing cuts to Medicaid to...