The Congress Issue
After almost three many years on Capitol Hill, Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) reached the apex of his profession as the brand new Senate majority chief and head of the Republican caucus. However he’s additionally reached a private crossroads — and the way he navigates it should decide his legacy and the way forward for the American experiment. There’s no query that Thune is a conservative who helps President Donald Trump’s…
Dems ask Trump admin to explain Khalil’s arrest, calling it ‘playbook of authoritarians’
Greater than 100 Home Democrats on Friday despatched a letter to prime Trump officers, decrying the arrest of a former Columbia graduate pupil as an assault on the First Modification and questioning the murky authorized authority invoked by the administration. The lawmakers, together with authors Reps. Pramila Jayapal of Washington, Jamie Raskin of Maryland and Mary Homosexual Scanlon of Pennsylvania, addressed the letter to Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem and…
Mace sued for defamation by man she accused of abuse in floor speech
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) is going through a defamation lawsuit filed by one of many 4 males she has publicly accused of sexual abuse in a ground speech, in a case that might take a look at the authorized protections members of Congress have for his or her official conduct. The South Carolinian took to the Home ground final month to accuse her ex-fiance, Charleston businessman Patrick Bryant, and three…
Schumer’s shutdown 'surrender' sends the left into a rage
The Democratic base desires a combat. Chuck Schumer received’t give it to them. The Senate minority chief on Thursday backed away from the shutdown confrontation that many liberal voters and activist leaders had been pushing for — arguing that closing the federal government would solely empower President Donald Trump and billionaire ally Elon Musk of their bureaucracy-slashing marketing campaign. That call despatched shockwaves by means of the left and had…
White House withdraws CDC director nominee
The White Home has withdrawn its nominee to run the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, in an abrupt transfer simply hours earlier than his affirmation listening to was scheduled to start. Trump officers knowledgeable the Senate on Thursday morning that Dave Weldon, a former Florida congressman, will not be its decide for the company, based on two folks aware of the matter and granted anonymity to debate it. The…
Trump’s Capitol Hill agenda in limbo
Congressional Republicans notched a significant victory by muscling a funding invoice via the Home, however GOP lawmakers are nonetheless struggling to make headway on President Donald Trump’s greatest legislative priorities. Home and Senate Republicans have but to achieve a deal on a finances plan that might set the framework for Trump’s legislative agenda — a supply of pressure forward of a gathering Thursday between GOP senators and Trump on the…
GOP gets the upper hand on spending, with improbable help from the hard right
One precept has lengthy underpinned funding negotiations on Capitol Hill: Home Republicans can’t move a spending invoice with out Democratic votes. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson lastly quashed that assumption. It took an all-out lobbying blitz that concerned guarantees of future spending cuts, a scattering of presidential threats and Eleventh-hour coverage concessions involving tariffs and visas for Afghan refugees. However in a 217-213 vote, the Home…
Trump wants to end this GOP maverick’s political career. He’s not too worried.
President Donald Trump has lengthy been in a position to bend Republican lawmakers to his will with a single on-line publish. The mere trace of a risk that he would possibly announce a member "SHOULD BE PRIMARIED” is sufficient to convey most GOP members into line. Not Rep. Thomas Massie. The 54-year-old former robotics engineer brushed apart that precise threat from Trump Monday night time, even with the president vowing…
Senate Republicans push Trump for debt ceiling plan
Senate Majority Chief John Thune has deputized a folksy Louisiana lawmaker recognized for his blunt political observations and artistic analogies to take the lead in convincing President Donald Trump to develop a method for elevating the debt restrict later this 12 months. That Senate envoy, Sen. John Neely Kennedy, says Trump isn’t able to focus simply but — and that spotlight deficit may have reverberations throughout the worldwide economic system.…
GOP funding patch boosts defense and deportations, cuts other programs
A seven-month funding patch launched by Home Republicans Saturday would add billions of {dollars} in spending for deportations, veterans’ well being care and the army whereas slicing a fair larger quantity of funding for non-defense packages. The 99-page measure, crafted by Speaker Mike Johnson in coordination with the White Home, displays President Donald Trump’s prime coverage priorities and heightens a confrontation with Democrats forward of a Friday midnight shutdown deadline.…
