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House GOP leaders pulled their six-month stopgap funding plan on Wednesday, hours before a scheduled floor vote.
Facing a number of Republican holdouts, Speaker Mike Johnson said they’ll delay the vote until next week as they work to quell Republican opposition and “build consensus.”
"We are going to continue to work on thi...
Speaker Mike Johnson’s government funding plan, a six-month temporary government funding bill with new proof-of-citizenship requirements for voter registration, is set for a full House vote on Wednesday.
But there are a lot of roadblocks here, and there’s still a possibility that leaders yank it before it comes to the floor.
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Senate Democrats have lambasted Speaker Mike Johnson's spending plan as partisan showboating, but they're sticking to a wait-and-see approach before moving on any alternative proposal ahead of an end-of-month government shutdown deadline.
The potential for a shutdown remains low. And it's unclear if Democratic senators will pu...
Congressional Democrats are teaming up across chambers and continuing to press oil company executives for information and details on a request from former President Donald Trump for $1 billion to aid his reelection bid.
“We offer you another chance to cooperate with this bicameral, multi-Committee investigation,” the letters, ...
House Republicans huddle on Tuesday morning as they seek a path forward on their six-month government funding patch that’s already a non-starter in the Senate.
It’s already running into major roadblocks — at least six GOP lawmakers indicated to our Jordain Carney and Olivia Beavers they’d oppose the short-term continuing resol...
Rep. Bob Good‘s (R-Va.) resignation as Freedom Caucus chair will be official by the end of the week, five people familiar with the decision told POLITICO, with the group hoping to land on his successor by Friday.
Good outlined the plan during the group’s closed door meeting Monday night, the first in-person meeting since his p...
Mike Johnson’s spending plan is already in trouble. It was doomed in the Senate from the start, but now there are fresh doubts that he can even get it through the House.
The speaker announced last week that he planned to link a government funding bill to legislation that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote. ...
Speaker Mike Johnson's stopgap spending plan is slated to clear its first test Monday, but its fate on the House floor is still far from certain.
The chamber's Rules Committee kicked off a meeting Monday afternoon to prepare to send the funding bill to the House floor, likely on Wednesday. The legislation would punt a governme...
Lawmakers are fully back in Washington for the first time in more than a month with a familiar dilemma: Ducking a government shutdown weeks away from a pivotal election.
House Republicans will tee up their opening offer — an extension of funds until March 28 that also includes a provision requiring proof of citizenship in ord...
House Majority PAC, Democrats' main super PAC dedicated to congressional races, is putting more money on offense.
The group is reserving another $3 million worth of ads to up the pressure in two GOP-held districts: one in southeast Iowa and the other in Virginia's Tidewater region.
The bulk of the investment ($2.3 million) w...
