The House Rules Committee convened just after 1 A.M. on Wednesday morning, with hundreds of amendments to be debated on the “one big, beautiful” reconciliation bill and is still meeting, seeking consensus from the Republican factions that want their conditions met. The legislation includes an extension of the tax cuts President Donald J. Trump enacted… Read More
Republican deficit hawks allowed President Donald J. Trump’s bill of legislative priorities to advance out of the House Budget Committee in late-night vote Sunday, marking a key hurdle cleared for House GOP leaders and a sign of progress for warring Republican factions. After gaveling in after 10 P.M. Sunday, the committee voted 17-16 to advance… Read More
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) is scrambling to negotiate with competing factions of his conference as the clock ticks to advance President Donald J. Trump’s agenda through the House next week. Today at 2:30 P.M, House Republicans will meet in private to discuss the GOP mega-bill to try shore up the votes to pass the legislation… Read More
The House Ways and Means Committee advanced a number of President Donald J. Trump’s top tax priorities early Wednesday morning, setting the stage for a high-stakes sprint to get the provisions through the GOP’s razor-thin majority. The panel advanced the legislation — part of the party’s package containing President Trump’s legislative agenda — in a… Read More
The tax portion of Republicans’ wide-ranging bill full of President Donald J. Trump’s domestic priorities would cost $3.7 trillion over the next decade, the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) just released. That fits within the parameters laid out in the budget blueprint Congress adopted earlier this year, which allowed the House Ways and Means Committee… Read More
The House Ways and Means Committee, which has jurisdiction over taxes, on Friday evening released partial text for its portion of President Donald J. Trump’s “big beautiful bill” and scheduled a meeting to debate and advance the legislation for Tuesday at 2 P.M. The proposal had been highly anticipated, but the text released Friday appears… Read More
The Senate will not convene until 2:30 P.M. today as Senate Republicans will meet at the Library of Congress to discuss where things stand with President Donald J. Trump’s “one, big beautiful bill.” The Senate GOP conference is set to hold the 4-hour policy retreat across the street from the Capitol building as Conservatives are… Read More
As Republicans work behind closed doors to negotiate the big beautiful bill, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and VA Secretary Doug Collins are hitting the Hill today to testify on their portions of President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2026 budget request. As part of that testimony, Treasury Secretary Bessent… Read More
This week, House Republicans are on the hunt for deals on Medicaid cuts, the state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap and other contentious topics, as the conference looks to advance its package full of President Donald J. Trump’s legislative priorities to try to meet Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-Louisiana) goal of finishing work on the… Read More
The House and Senate are wrapping up work for the week this morning. The Senate is expected to finish the week with passage of H.J.Res.75, Energy Conservation Standards for Commercial Refrigerators, Freezers, and Refrigerator-Freezers CRA as well as passage of S.J.Res.31, Major Sources CRA. The Senate will then take up a motion to invoke cloture… Read More
