Saturday

05-09-2026 Vol 19

Category: Congress

Vance gives hard sell for spending patch to House Republicans

Vice President JD Vance told House Republicans hours ahead of an expected vote on a seven-month funding patch on Tuesday that Republicans will take the blame for a government...

Johnson confident ahead of government funding vote

Speaker Mike Johnson said in an interview Tuesday morning he expects House Republicans “are going to pass” a bill to fund the government later in the day, ahead of...

Republicans join bill to protect workers after DOGE firings

A new bill to address the mass firings of probationary federal workers by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is picking up bipartisan support. First-term Republican Reps. Michael Baumgartner...

Capitol agenda: Johnson’s spending holdouts

House GOP leaders went into the week with plans to pass their stopgap funding bill today without Democratic support. That might not be possible. With one surefire “no” in...

John Kennedy is trying to get Trump to get serious about the debt limit

The Louisiana senator has been tapped to consult with the president on a strategy for avoiding a federal default.

House Republicans huddle with Bessent on tax policy menu

Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee huddled on Monday with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to review a large menu of tax options for the GOP’s policy agenda....

Democrats offer short-term alternative to House GOP spending patch

Top Democratic appropriators released a short-term funding bill Monday night meant to serve as an alternative to the House Republican plan to fund the government through September as the...

GOP holdouts push for Afghan visa changes in funding bill

House Republicans are set to adjust their stopgap spending bill in a bid to win over holdouts, stripping a planned increase in the number of available visas for Afghan...

Vought pushes for stopgap funding bill in GOP meeting

Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought met with some House Republicans Monday night, where he offered “full-throated support” for the seven-month funding patch, according to House Appropriations...

GOP Doctors Caucus chair: Johnson, Scalise ‘agree’ to address doctor pay in party-line bill

Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader Steve Scalise have pledged to address pay cuts for doctors treating Medicare patients in Republicans’ party-line package to enact broad swaths of President...