‘Time is running out’: Lawmakers scramble for a deal to stop a shutdown
A Capitol Hill conflict over President Donald Trump’s extraordinary strikes to take management of federal spending is upping the probabilities that lawmakers gained’t have a deal to fund the federal government earlier than a shutdown deadline in simply three weeks. Talks between the highest appropriators within the Home and Senate have soured up to now week, with lawmakers nonetheless trying to find an settlement on topline spending ranges which can…
Senate trudges through vote-a-rama to ready a backup budget
Senate Republicans are on monitor to undertake their finances decision within the early hours of Friday morning — a bid to point out help for a “Plan B” if Home GOP lawmakers can’t unite round their extra expansive imaginative and prescient for a party-line package deal essential to enact President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda. Senators had voted on greater than 10 amendments to their budget resolution earlier than midnight, with…
Fresh executive order targets sanctuary cities, federal aid for undocumented migrants
President Donald Trump signed an immigration govt order late Wednesday designed to focus on sanctuary cities and guarantee undocumented immigrants aren’t receiving federal advantages. The order directs federal departments and businesses to establish any federal applications offering monetary advantages to undocumented immigrants, whereas in the identical breath acknowledging that below the Private Duty and Work Alternative Reconciliation Act of 1996, undocumented immigrants are already largely barred from public applications. However…
Trump stuns Senate GOP with House budget endorsement
Republicans on Capitol Hill have lengthy wished President Donald Trump to weigh in on the strategic disputes which have divided the 2 chambers over the right way to cross his legislative agenda. However this isn't what GOP senators had in thoughts. Trump’s public name Wednesday for the adoption of a Home-drafted price range framework — and the “one huge, lovely invoice” it sketches out — left Senate Republicans flat-footed and…
Mitch McConnell’s party of one
Three months in the past, Mitch McConnell ran the Senate GOP. Now he’s going it alone as he wages battles in opposition to a few of President Donald Trump’s highest-profile nominees. The Kentucky Republican grew to become the one member of the Senate GOP’s 53-seat convention to oppose multiple Trump choose along with his votes this week — first opposing Tulsi Gabbard’s director of nationwide intelligence nomination on Wednesday after…
They’re not just suing to stop DOGE. They’re suing Elon Musk himself.
Elon Musk’s efforts to disrupt and dismantle the federal authorities on the behest of Donald Trump have already sparked a legion of lawsuits. Now the authorized challengers are setting their sights on a brand new goal: Musk himself. Two new instances accuse the ultra-wealthy CEO of illegally amassing an excessive amount of authorities energy with out the accountability usually required of high-level government department officers. They're searching for courtroom orders…
Sweeping safety-net cuts have GOP centrists questioning Johnson’s budget
Speaker Mike Johnson has cleared a serious hurdle towards unlocking the huge, party-line invoice he’s pursuing to enact President Donald Trump’s huge home agenda. Now he’s acquired extra leaping to do. On Thursday, as Republican hard-liners celebrated a concession they received from social gathering leaders to drive deeper spending cuts as a part of the GOP’s sweeping coverage push, centrists expressed deep alarm in regards to the trajectory of the…
House Republicans advance their budget after appeasing hard-liners
Rating one for the backers of “one huge, stunning invoice." Home Republicans launched their funds plan out of committee Thursday evening — the primary legislative step towards fulfilling President Donald Trump’s coverage agenda however at odds with the Senate's continued pursuit of a "two-track" plan. The Home Funds Committee voted to approve a funds decision alongside get together traces, 21-16, after a marathon markup. With a view to rally sufficient…
RFK Jr.’s plans could make Musk’s look small
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now answerable for the nation’s well being businesses. His plans to upend them might make Elon Musk’s budget-cutting spree look modest by comparability. Kennedy gained Senate affirmation on Thursday even after vowing to take vitamin and well being applications in a radical new path, and regardless of his lengthy historical past of criticizing the security of scientifically confirmed vaccines. “We'll be certain our tax {dollars}…
Gabbard clears key Senate hurdle with unanimous GOP support
Senators voted to advance Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination to function director of nationwide intelligence in a party-line vote Monday night, setting the stage for a ultimate affirmation vote later this week. Having secured the assist of 52 Senate Republicans, Gabbard, one in every of President Donald Trump’s most controversial Cupboard nominees, is on monitor to be confirmed because the nation’s prime intelligence official within the coming days. Forty six Democrats within…
