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Earlier today, the House passed the Republicans’ short-term government funding bill ahead of the September 30th deadline to avert a shutdown.  The final tally was 217-212. Ultimately, all but two Republicans supported the President Donald Trump-backed spending bill with Representatives Thomas Massie (Kentucky) and Victoria Spartz (Indiana) voting no.  Nearly all Democrats who were present…

Democrats are gearing up to reject a GOP stopgap funding bill and potentially spark a government shutdown. What happens then, no one seems to know.  Two weeks ahead of the key deadline, party leaders are staking out a rhetorical hard line demanding that their Republican counterparts come to the negotiating table to discuss concessions on…

President Donald Trump and GOP leaders need the support of at least seven Senate Democrats to break a filibuster to keep the government open past September 30th.  To entice Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York), they’re advancing a straight extension, which was released yesterday, of government funding until November 21st – without poison pills…

As the Senate continues to try to clear nominations, the upper chamber will take up Confirmation of Executive Calendar #113, Tyler Clarkson, of Virginia, to be General Counsel of the Department of Agriculture, Confirmation of Executive Calendar #172 Gadyaces Serralta, of Florida, to be Director of the United States Marshals Service, Confirmation of Executive Calendar…

 As the Senate continues its slog to process outstanding nominations, today the upper chamber will take up Confirmation of Executive Calendar #182 Thomas Gaiser, of Ohio, to be an Assistant Attorney General, Confirmation of Executive Calendar #95 Joseph Kent, of Washington, to be Director of the National Counterterrorism Center- Office of the Director of National…

The Senate will spend today continuing to process through a list of 135 outstanding nominations by taking up Confirmation of Executive Calendar #110 Earl Matthews, of Virginia, to be General Counsel of the Department of Defense, Confirmation of Executive Calendar #94 William Kimmitt, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, Confirmation…

The Senate is back in session for the week and hoping to make some progress on both the government funding process and President Donald J. Trump’s backlog of almost 150 nominees before heading home for August recess.  Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota)  is hoping to get the first appropriations package through the chamber…

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) is sending lawmakers home early for their summer recess today to avoid dragging out a fight within the GOP over the Jeffrey Epstein saga.  The move came after the GOP-led Rules Committee — which was working on advancing a slate of unrelated bills — came to a halt Monday…

The Senate has approved the Trump administration’s $9 billion rescission package aimed at clawing back money already allocated for public radio and television — a major step toward winding down nearly six decades of federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).  CPB stands to lose $1.1 billion dollars meant to fund it through…

Senate Republican leadership say they have the votes to pass a package of $9 billion in spending cuts, which would give President Donald J. Trump another huge legislative victory in less than a month, after GOP leaders quelled a revolt from members of the Senate Appropriations Committee.  Senate GOP leaders agreed to an amendment to…