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Congress to move a step closer to fiscal gridlock with unveiling of Senate spending measures

Senators are poised to set up a clash with the House on Thursday when they unveil fiscal 2024 spending legislation that is starkly higher than spending measures the House plans to pass.

June 21, 2023

John Durham testimony underscores need for FBI overhaul, House intel leaders say

The top Republican and Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said the FBI needs an overhaul, after hearing testimony Tuesday from former special counsel John Durham.

June 20, 2023

‘Squad’ moves to block landlords from using criminal records to screen renters

The far-left clique of progressive House Democrats known as the "Squad" want to block landlords from being able to view criminal records when conducting background checks on potential tenants.

June 19, 2023

House conservatives eye ‘unauthorized’ spending to broadly slash federal budget following debt deal

Conservatives in the House believe they may have found the secret path to force instant, deep cuts in government spending.

June 18, 2023

Tax policy bill aims to offset high inflation, punish China, Russia; GOP evokes families, businesses

House Republicans have assembled a $237 billion tax cut package with a bevy of provisions to bolster the economy and offset the impact of 40-year high inflation on American workers.

June 17, 2023

Senators press Biden to release U.S. intel analysis of Chinese spy balloon incident

Republican senators are pushing for President Biden to explain why a Chinese spy balloon was allowed to float across the U.S. earlier this year before being shot down.

June 16, 2023

Republicans push McCarthy to address Social Security, Medicare in the spending fight

The largest faction of House GOP lawmakers is pushing Speaker Kevin McCarthy to use the upcoming government spending fight to shore up Social Security and Medicare.

June 14, 2023

McCarthy quells conservative blockade of bills, but peace could be short-term

Speaker Kevin McCarthy brokered an end Tuesday to a week-long conservative blockade of legislation coming to the House floor, but there are already signs the truce could be short-term.

June 13, 2023

Top House Democrat accuses McCarthy of ‘walking away’ from debt limit deal

A top member of the House Democratic leadership accused Speaker Kevin McCarthy of reneging on the debt limit agreement struck with President Biden last month.

June 13, 2023

House breaks legislative logjam after McCarthy agrees to negotiate with Freedom Caucus

The House broke a week-long impasse on Tuesday after conservative hardliners ended their blockade of Republican-backed legislation coming to the floor.

June 13, 2023

McCarthy OKs $130 billion spending cut, portending potential government shutdown

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has agreed to push for a $130 billion spending cut in the upcoming government funding battle in contravention of the debt limit deal struck with President Biden last month.

June 13, 2023

McCarthy cancels House votes amid private negotiations with conservative rebel holdouts

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy canceled a series of planned votes on Monday amid negotiations with 11 conservative rebels who have frozen the chamber.

June 12, 2023

Conservative rebels push McCarthy to defund 1,100 federal programs in government spending fight

The small group of conservative lawmakers that has paralyzed the House is pushing Speaker Kevin McCarthy to back the defunding of more than 1,100 unauthorized federal programs in the upcoming government spending fight.

June 12, 2023

Speaker Kevin McCarthy vexed by conservative revolt as House returns to Washington

The House of Representatives is set to return to Washington on Monday with no clear resolution to the standoff between conservative hard-liners and Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

June 11, 2023

‘I will never be detained’: Trump defiant after federal indictment

Former President Donald Trump struck a defiant tone Saturday in his first public appearance since being indicted on 37 counts of mishandling classified documents, calling the prosecution by the Biden Justice Department a dangerous abuse of power to stop his campaign as the frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination.

June 10, 2023

DeSantis pledges to restore Confederate general’s name to U.S. military base

Gov. Ron DeSantis is pledging if elected president in 2024 to restore the name of a Confederate general to a North Carolina military base.

June 10, 2023

Sununu blasts Trump’s 2024 GOP opponents for not pouncing on indictment

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu slammed the GOP presidential field for not aggressively pouncing on former President Donald Trump's unprecedented 37-count indictment for allegedly mishandling classified documents.

June 10, 2023

GOP agenda’s momentum threatened by Republican hard-liners upset with McCarthy-Biden debt limit deal

Speaker Kevin McCarthy's debt limit deal has spawned such bad blood within the House Republican Conference that it threatens to upend the rest of the GOP's agenda for this year.

June 8, 2023

Freedom Caucus insurgency forces freeze on House floor action, upset McCarthy drew Democrats

Speaker Kevin McCarthy was forced to send House lawmakers home for the weekend on Wednesday after conservative insurgents paralyzed the chamber in protest over his debt-limit deal with Democrats.

June 7, 2023

Freedom Caucus paralyzes House to pressure McCarthy against accepting future deals with Democrats

The conservative House Freedom Caucus again paralyzed the House on Wednesday and forced Speaker Kevin McCarthy to cancel votes for the rest of the week.

June 7, 2023