Saturday

05-09-2026 Vol 19

Category: Congress

Trump is making his big speech to Congress. Here’s how to watch.

Tuesday night’s speech will be President Donald Trump’s first televised prime-time address since he returned to office six weeks ago.

Elon Musk and Susan Collins connect over text

The Senate’s top appropriator, and a notable critic of the scope and speed of cuts to the federal government rolled out by the Trump administration, has been texting with...

Energy and Commerce discusses next steps for Trump’s party-line bill

Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee have started holding meetings to discuss where to find savings within their panel’s purview to finance legislation to enact President Donald...

GOP stopgap holdouts will ‘get on board,’ Johnson says

Speaker Mike Johnson acknowledged several GOP lawmakers have "hesitation" over backing the six-month extension of government funding that he and President Donald Trump are pushing ahead of a Friday...

Republicans risk hard-liner revolt in latest gambit to avoid a shutdown

Should Republican leaders have to abandon their current plan to pass a government funding bill at "flat" levels, hard-liners warn that another fiscal framework is at risk: the budget...

House GOP committee chairs invite Hunter Biden whistleblowers to Trump’s speech to Congress

Reps. Jim Jordan and James Comer — the chairs of the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees, respectively — are bringing two IRS whistleblowers who disclosed tax information about Hunter...

Capitol agenda: GOP expectations on Trump’s speech

Congressional Republicans are giving Trump a long leash at his joint address tonight despite mounting backlash in their districts to his Washington disruptions. GOP lawmakers widely agreed they’d like...

Fix to doctors’ payment cuts under Medicare in play for stopgap funding measure

House Republican leadership is open to including language in a stopgap government funding bill that would prevent cuts in pay for doctors treating patients under Medicare, a key lawmaker...

Senate GOP won’t take up House budget resolution until at least late March

Senate Republicans’ work to resolve differences with the House on a budget blueprint will slip until late March at least, with the chamber not expected to bring up the...

Bill restricting transgender student athletes stalls in the Senate

The Senate failed to advance a measure to restrict transgender students from playing on women’s sports teams on a 51-45 procedural vote Monday evening. No Democrats joined Republicans in...