Saturday

05-09-2026 Vol 19

Category: Congress

Schumer backs away from shutdown, says he’ll vote to advance GOP bill

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer privately told fellow Democrats during a closed-door lunch Thursday that he would help advance a House GOP funding bill — a strong indication that...

Rep. Raúl Grijalva dies at 77

The 12-term Arizona Democrat had been under treatment for cancer.

Senate confirms Pulte as top housing regulator, with market’s future at stake

The Senate on Thursday voted 56-43 to confirm Bill Pulte as the nation's top housing regulator, putting him at the center of a fight over the future of two...

Sarah McBride says she lives ‘rent-free’ in Republicans’ heads

LEESBURG, Virginia — Rep. Sarah McBride said she lived to “rent-free in the minds of some of my Republican colleagues” amid a controversy about GOP lawmakers referring to her...

House Oversight Committee launches probe into deadly plane crash

In wake of the January crash near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport that killed 67 people, leaders of a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee are launching a bipartisan...

Johnson taps Boeing exec Curtis Beaulieu as top tax adviser

House Speaker Mike Johnson is naming Boeing official Curtis Beaulieu his top tax adviser, sources familiar with the decision say, filling a big hole on his staff as a...

White House withdraws CDC director nominee

Dave Weldon had faced growing scrutiny over his anti-vaccine views.

Capitol agenda: Senate Dems’ last-minute shutdown gambit

Senate Democrats are still not committing to helping Republicans pass a seven-month funding stopgap, edging the country closer to a government shutdown as they attempt to force a vote...

Trump’s Capitol Hill agenda in limbo

House and Senate Republicans are sinking deeper into an impasse over how to advance President Donald Trump’s vast legislative agenda.

Chuck Schumer is in a real shutdown mess. Can he lead Democrats out of it?

Despite pressure from the left to hold firm, some Democratic senators seem headed for an off-ramp.