Friday

05-06-2026 Vol 19

Category: Congress

Trump stuns Senate GOP with House budget endorsement

“Did not see that one coming,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune said.

Senate still moving forward with budget, Thune says

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said that Republicans are moving ahead — for now — with their budget blueprint, even after President Donald Trump endorsed the House’s competing plan...

Trump backs House budget plan, calls on Senate to stand down

President Donald Trump threw his support on Wednesday behind the House's budget blueprint — throwing a curveball into the Senate's plan to vote on a competing version this week....

Capitol agenda: Senate’s budget slog begins

Senate Republicans have begun the arduous process of adopting their budget blueprint and are now set to take a major step forward on President Donald Trump’s agenda later this...

GOP privacy hawks brush off concerns about DOGE data dives

Some of the Senate’s most notorious GOP privacy hawks are shrugging off moves by Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency to access Americans’ sensitive taxpayer data. It’s...

Senate tees up ‘vote-a-rama’ on budget for party-line package

Senate Republicans took their first procedural vote Monday night on the budget plan they hope to use to swiftly enact a border security, energy and defense spending bill —...

Trump’s FBI pick one step closer to confirmation

Kash Patel, the controversial nominee to lead the FBI, cleared another key procedural hurdle Tuesday. The Senate voted 48-45 to move forward with Patel’s nomination, setting up his confirmation...

Ways and Means eyeing limits to corporate tax deductions

The House Ways and Means Committee is looking at limiting corporate state and local tax deductions as one way to offset the costs of a large party-line tax bill,...

The House GOP budget resolution is in trouble

Speaker Mike Johnson is staring down at least a dozen Republican holdouts on the budget blueprint he wants to put on the House floor in the coming days —...

Senate Republicans edge out the House again, planning budget vote this week

Senate Republicans will vote this week on a budget blueprint that would unlock a key part of President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda. “It’s time to act on the decisive...