Friday

05-06-2026 Vol 19

Category: Congress

Dems join Republicans to kill Biden drilling rule

A group of Senate Democrats crossed the aisle Tuesday to blow a hole in former President Joe Biden’s environmental legacy. The Senate voted 54-44 on a resolution that would...

House budget vote back on as GOP leaders try to convince holdouts

Hard-right members are continuing to insist on more spending cuts.

How Trump is taking a ‘both sides’ approach to his agenda

President Donald Trump is “playing both sides” in getting his legislative agenda through Congress, according to two people familiar with his conversations about what's happening on Capitol Hill —...

Trump speaks with several holdouts ahead of key budget vote

President Donald Trump is speaking with some House Republican holdouts ahead of an imperiled vote on the GOP’s budget Tuesday evening. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said Trump had...

Trump’s latest budget nominee avows funding freeze, pledges to follow Vought

The Senate began its public vetting on Tuesday of President Donald Trump’s pick for the No. 2 post at the White House budget office, a position key to carrying...

Prospects dim for reviving deal to grow the federal judiciary

Bipartisan talks to add judges to the federal judiciary are over — at least for now. At a Tuesday morning hearing of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual...

House budget plan advances to final floor vote

The House Republican approach to President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy agenda moved a step closer to approval after Republicans stayed united on a test vote, setting up a...

Democrats use committee hearing to rail against GOP Medicaid cuts and DOGE

Tensions are boiling over inside the typically bipartisan House Energy and Commerce Committee, with Democrats railing against Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency and the GOP’s plan to extend...

Cramer suffers ‘severe concussion’ after fall in North Dakota

Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) is recovering back in North Dakota after falling on Sunday and suffering a “severe concussion,” he said in a Facebook post. Cramer, who turned 64...

Cruz plans first tech subpoena

Amid some Republican pushback against Sen. Ted Cruz's efforts to gain unilateral subpoena power to haul Big Tech CEOs before his panel, the Senate Commerce chair now plans to...