Live updates: House to vote on GOP budget deal; Musk to join first Cabinet meeting
House Republican leaders are aiming for muscle through Tuesday's budget resolution. However, opposition emerges from all aspects of the conference, with speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and his leadership team rushing to strengthen their support. Johnson can afford just one GOP asylum, assuming full attendance on both sides. Senate Republicans have already adopted their own slim […]
Britain Raids Foreign Aid Budget to Boost Defence… Very Slightly
The UK, which has been barely cutting NATO minimum defence spending of 2% of GDP for years, will attack foreign aid budgets to get a new 2.5% level, the government says. Just weeks after the UK government strongly criticized President Donald Trump for cutting the country's foreign aid budget in a freeze on USAID, Westminster […]
Fate Of Trump’s Legislative Agenda In Peril With Several GOP Holdouts Dug In Against House Budget Proposal
House Republican budget proposals to promote President Trump's legislative agenda face serious headwinds in which several GOP members suggest vote against the bill. Speaker Mike Johnson faces a vital moment around the House of Representatives this week to pass a budget resolution that will advance the president's first year tax and spending priorities (the first […]
Johnson searches for consensus on budget resolution as opposition grows ahead of key vote
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA.) and his leadership team are enthusiastically searching for consensus on the planning of a House GOP meeting to advance President Trump's legislative agenda. As speakers look to vote to adopt the meeting's budget resolution on Tuesday, the Scramble for Support is a vast legislation filled with Trump's domestic policy priorities, including […]
House Rules Committee advances budget resolution as path forward remains uncertain
The House Rules Committee voted Monday to advance plans for a GOP meeting to pass President Trump's legislative agenda, and even if the fate on the floor remains uncertain, it is still a complete commerce solution. I sent it to the chamber. The panel voted 9-4 along the party line to adopt rules governing debate […]
House GOP advances budget framework for border, energy and tax priorities for final vote
WASHINGTON – House Republicans advance budget frameworks through the committee on Monday, pursuing spending priorities on border, defense and energy initiatives, and setting a final vote to expand President Trump's 2017 tax cut package I did. All nine GOP members of the House Rules Committee approved Blueprints We will close the total increase at $4.5 […]
Trump budget bill factions in peril amid warring House GOP factions’ displeasure
The huge budget settlement bill for House Republicans was put in danger Monday evening, with at least two GOP lawmakers threatening to oppose it. House GOP leaders hope to vote on Tuesday on a vast bill that will drive President Donald Trump's border, defense, tax and energy priorities. But at least two House Republicans say […]
Trump budget bill faces headwinds before key House test after Senate all-nighter
The massive law that says Republicans want to advance the broad sash of President Donald Trump's agenda, faces a final hurdle before a room-wide vote on Monday. The House Rules Committee, the final gatekeeper of most bills before the House floor vote, is meeting to discuss measures GOP leaders want to have on Trump's desk […]
Trump’s budget plan keeping Congress members up all night
The policy agenda of President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans maintains Democrats at night. literally. If you snooze, you'll lose. Or at least they may have missed the recent nocturnal front that Democrats installed to oppose the GOP budget package. A guide to the Senate to move Trump's agenda forward Focus groups responded to President […]
After Hours Of Debate, Senate Greenlights $340B Budget Blueprint Supporting Trump
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) (L) and Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) held a meeting at the U.S. Capitol on February 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. It's going to move. The Senate is set to launch a marathon voting for a number of amendments called “Rama's Voting,” which will attach Graham's proposed budget. “The […]