The Senate just voted to advance a $95 billion emergency security spending bill with $60 billion to support the war in Ukraine, but without a bipartisan border security bill that ran into stiff opposition from Republicans. The vote was 67-32 to advance a legislative vehicle that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) says will… Read More
After a day of chaos that saw House Republican leadership lose two embarrassing votes on the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas, and a stand alone bill for aid to Israel, plus a federal appeals court rejecting former President Donald J. Trump’s claim that he was immune from prosecution on charges of plotting… Read More
Senate Republicans, under heavy pressure from former President Donald Trump, will block a procedural motion to begin debate on the bipartisan border security deal this week, leaving funding for the war in Ukraine in limbo for the foreseeable future. A failure to advance the border security deal this week would signal the legislation is unlikely… Read More
Senate negotiators unveiled their long-awaited bipartisan border deal (TEXT) Sunday night and it was met with immediate blowback. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) declared the measure “even worse than we expected” and predicted it is dead on arrival in the House, while conservative Republicans in the Senate slammed the measure and vowed to defeat it. … Read More
Moderate House Republicans from New York sent a warning shot to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) on Tuesday, coming very close to blocking legislative action on the House floor in protest of the bipartisan, bicameral tax deal (TEXT; JCT MEMO) not including an increase in the state and local tax deduction (SALT). Taking a page out… Read More
Senate negotiators have indicated they will shortly release the text on a national security spending bill they hope can simultaneously fund Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan and offer legislative solutions to slow the surge of migrants at the southern border. Yet fresh criticism Monday from former President Donald Trump and other Republican leaders threatened to derail… Read More
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) on Wednesday floated the possibility to Senate Republicans of splitting Ukraine funding from border security reforms that are coming under heavy opposition from Senate conservatives. McConnell reportedly acknowledged to Republican senators at a Wednesday afternoon meeting that the politics of U.S. border security have turned out to be a… Read More
While negotiations continue on the final text for the bipartisan deal on border security measures that are designed to shake loose a multi-billion-dollar aid package for Ukraine and Israel, the Senate is expected to continue voting on nominations today. The Senate will take up the nomination of Jacquelyn D. Austin to be United States District… Read More
A bipartisan group of senators has agreed on a compromise to crack down on the surge of migrants across the United States border with Mexico, including reducing the number who are allowed to live and work in the country temporarily, but a final deal depends on resolving critical funding disputes. Much of the recent haggling… Read More
Both the House and Senate are spending today working to pass a short-term spending bill and avoid a government shutdown ahead of a winter storm that is set to hit Washington. Government funding is set to expire at midnight on Friday night, but the incoming weather is pushing lawmakers to wrap up work sooner than… Read More
