Spending Deal Goes Down in Flames as House Republicans Confront Difficult Questions
House Republicans are going back to square one after the deal negotiated on Thursday failed decisively just hours later. The deal, the result of daylong negotiations between various ideological wings of the House Republican Conference and President-elect Donald Trump's team, failed 174-236 with one person present and 20 absent. . An astonishing 38 Republicans voted […]
Early legislative test for Trump sees plan B spending bill tank in House
House Republicans on Thursday failed to secure the majority of votes needed on a spending bill to avert a government shutdown by the end of the week, in an early test of President-elect Trump's ability to unite Republicans in the chamber. I suffered a defeat. The bill failed by a vote of 235-174, with 38 […]
White House blasts GOP funding bill ahead of vote
The White House on Thursday denounced the newly announced Republican funding bill as a “gift to billionaires” ahead of a vote in the House. “Republicans are pandering to their billionaire benefactors at the expense of hardworking Americans,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement. He accused Republicans of “breaking their promise to support a […]
Trump-Endorsed Plan To Avert Government Shutdown Fails In House Vote
member of the House of Representatives rejected On Thursday evening, House Speaker Mike Johnson's new stopgap funding bill passed 233-174. Thirty-eight Republicans, including Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy, oppose raising the debt ceiling without significant spending cuts or allowing $110 billion in disaster aid without offsets. For this reason, they voted against the new continuing […]
House Republicans Strike Spending Deal After Trump Steps In House Republicans Strike Spending Deal After Trump Steps In
Just 24 hours after the deal negotiated by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) collapsed, President-elect Donald Trump stepped in to offer a possible path averting a government shutdown. Republicans from across the caucus's ideological spectrum shuffled through the hallways of the Capitol, mostly between the speaker's office and the office of Majority Whip Tom Emmer […]
House rejects Johnson's plan B to prevent shutdown
The House of Representatives on Thursday killed Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-Louisiana) Plan B to avoid a government shutdown and suspend the debt ceiling, dealing a blow to Republican leadership and sending the session to a halt with an eye on Friday's funding deadline. I returned it to . The bill, launched by Johnson about three […]
Trump-backed bill to avoid government shutdown to see imminent House vote
The House of Representatives is expected to vote soon on a bill backed by President-elect Trump to avert a government shutdown. The move comes after two days of chaos in Congress as lawmakers battled over the future direction of government spending, including a battle between President Trump and allies Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. also […]
‘Hell no’: House Dems erupt over GOP spending deal
House Democrats are balking at the latest spending plan released Thursday by Speaker Mike Johnson. “Musk-Johnson's proposal is not serious, it's ridiculous. Extreme MAGA Republicans are forcing us into a government shutdown,” said House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Representative Richard Neal, D-Mass., suggested that Democratic leaders would whip their members to vote “no” on the […]
‘SUCCESS In Washington’: Trump Endorses House GOP Plan To Fund Government
President-elect Donald Trump supported an agreement by House Republican leaders to fund the government through March 2025 and raise the debt ceiling through 2027. President Trump's support for a House Republican spending bill to avert a government shutdown follows his decision Wednesday to cut House Speaker Mike Johnson's initial stopgap funding. invoicewas heavily criticized by […]
Theodore Roosevelt didn’t display a White House Christmas tree while in office, but why?
Presidents past and present have decorated the White House with breathtaking Christmas trees. Former President Benjamin Harrison is recognized by the White House Historical Society as the first person to display a Christmas tree in the White House, installing one in the second-floor Oval Room in 1889. According to the White House Historical Society, the […]