Saturday

05-09-2026 Vol 19

Category: Congress

Not much progress on Senate-House budget talks

Senate GOP leadership staffers indicated to rank-and-file GOP offices Monday that they aren’t even close to resolving Senate demands on the House budget plan, according to two people who...

Top GOP appropriators waffle on ‘full-year’ funding patch Trump endorsed

Top Republican appropriators both said Monday they are pursuing a “two-track strategy” for avoiding a shutdown in less than two weeks — a sign that the lead negotiators in...

Ways and Means committee to start drafting plans for enacting Trump tax agenda next week

House Ways and Means Republicans are tentatively scheduled on March 10 and 12 to start drafting the GOP’s party-line bill enacting President Donald Trump's tax agenda, according to a...

Trump blames town hall drama on paid ‘troublemakers’

President Donald Trump on Monday dismissed a spate of contentious town halls that congressional Republicans have faced in recent weeks as being the work of “paid ‘troublemakers.’” Trump’s Truth...

Capitol agenda: Johnson’s two major challenges

Speaker Mike Johnson has a new challenge as he works on the specifics of President Donald Trump’s agenda: navigating the competing assurances he made to various GOP factions. Johnson...

Democrats plan a different kind of response to Trump’s big speech

Their less pugilistic approach is the latest sign the party is still coming to terms with how to confront the president.

Centrist group to Dems: Reject radical staff, embrace patriotism

Centrist Democrats produced a five-page document of takeaways at a retreat organized by Third Way.

‘Sanctuary city’ mayors hope to avoid an embarrassing spectacle in Congress

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston is working with former Biden lawyer Dana Remus as the city prepares to gather — and redact — documents that might expose municipal employees to...

Murkowski says Trump administration ‘appears to be walking away from our allies,’ a rare GOP rebuke on Ukraine

Her admonishment came after a disastrous bilateral meeting between Trump and Zelenskyy, which saw Trump publicly berate the Ukrainian leader.

GOP-led committee launches probe to root out ‘political’ hires

As President Donald Trump and Elon Musk move to fire broad swaths of the federal workforce, the top Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is launching...