Category: Congress
September 24, 2025
Congress
Republican lawmakers face internal rift over abortion
House and Senate Republican leaders aren’t sure they can stave off a fight between moderates and hard-liners on abortion coverage.
September 24, 2025
Congress
Inside the Schumer-Thune shutdown cold war
The relationship between the two Senate leaders, who have known each other for decades, has grown tense.
September 23, 2025
Congress
House centrists attempt quiet rescue of Obamacare subsidy talks
The bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus is trying to rekindle negotiations over the soon-to-expire tax credits used by more than 20 million Americans.
September 23, 2025
Congress
How Arizona voters are set to put Mike Johnson in a corner
The likely winner of a special election Tuesday is set to rekindle the Jeffrey Epstein firestorm in the House.
September 22, 2025
Congress
Nancy Mace and Cory Mills are still squabbling over censure vote
Mills helped tank move to punish Rep. Ilhan Omar for Charlie Kirk comments.
September 22, 2025
Congress
Trump to meet with Democratic leaders ahead of shutdown deadline
Top Democrats Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer demanded a meeting with the president over the weekend.
September 22, 2025
Congress
White House says government shutdown would be ‘the fault of Democrats’
Karoline Leavitt said the president wants a “simple, clean budget extension.”
September 22, 2025
Congress
Tables turn for Democrats as they use shutdown for leverage
The current standoff is a nearly precise inversion of the 2013 showdown over health care that closed government agencies for 17 days.
September 19, 2025
Congress
House Oversight Republicans give readout of Alex Acosta’s Epstein interview
Alex Acosta, in a closed-door interview with lawmakers Friday, defended the widely criticized plea deal he brokered with Jeffrey Epstein while a U.S. attorney in Florida. Acosta, who later...
September 19, 2025
Congress
Trump accuses Dems of wanting a shutdown after failed Senate vote
But he praised Fetterman for voting for the GOP stopgap.