Lindsey McPherson

House adopts vote-pairing for new parents and other lawmakers who need to vote from afar

The House on Tuesday formalized a process to allow lawmakers who just had a baby or otherwise need to take an emergency leave of absence to register their votes from afar.

April 8, 2025

Trump to meet with GOP budget holdouts, as opponents dig in against Senate changes

President Trump will meet with House Republicans who refuse to sign off on Senate changes to the budget blueprint for enacting his agenda.

April 8, 2025

House Republicans short on votes to adopt budget blueprint for Trump agenda

House Republicans do not have enough votes to adopt changes the Senate made to a budget blueprint for enacting President Trump's agenda, which the lower chamber is scheduled to vote on this week.

April 7, 2025

Luna, Speaker Johnson reach an agreement on voting for new parents

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said Sunday that she and House Speaker Mike Johnson have reached an agreement on a voting accommodation for new parents that will avoid bringing back proxy voting.

April 6, 2025

Trump increases pressure on House GOP to adopt the Senate-passed budget plan

President Trump is upping the pressure on congressional Republicans to fall in line behind the Senate-passed budget plan that has the House's fiscal hawks fuming.

April 6, 2025

Senate adopts altered budget blueprint for Trump agenda that now faces House resistance

The Senate early Saturday adopted changes to a House budget blueprint for enacting President Trump's agenda despite pushback from fiscal hawks in the lower chamber.

April 5, 2025

Florida man arrested for Facebook post threatening to kill Trump

A Jupiter, Florida resident who posted on Facebook a threat to kill President Trump was arrested by local police on Friday.

April 5, 2025

Blue state Republicans ready for fight to raise cap on state and local tax deduction

GOP lawmakers from blue states are digging in for a fight with fellow Republicans over raising the cap on state and local tax deductions on federal income taxes.

April 4, 2025

Speaker Johnson reiterates opposition to proxy voting, disputing Luna’s claim of compromise

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday said he remains opposed to reinstituting any form of proxy voting, disputing an account from Rep. Anna Paulina Luna that he agreed to a scaled-back version of her proposal for new mothers.

April 4, 2025

Senate Republicans, minus one, coalesce around budget plan

The Senate took an initial vote Thursday to advance a budget blueprint for enacting President Trump's agenda, with all but one Republican unifying around the outline for sweeping tax and spending cuts.

April 3, 2025

Senate rejects Bernie Sanders-led measures to block arms sales to Israel

The Senate on Thursday rejected a pair of measures from Sen. Bernard Sanders to block arms sales to Israel, thwarting the progressive senator's latest stand against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's actions in the war in Gaza.

April 3, 2025

Kaine planning vote to remove Trump authority to impose tariffs after rebuke of Canada moves

Sen. Tim Kaine, Virginia Democrat, is planning to force a Senate vote to undo President Trump's across-the-board tariffs after getting through his chamber a resolution to revoke the emergency justification for previously announced tariffs on Canada.

April 3, 2025

Senate rebukes Trump’s tariffs on Canada in bid to roll back presidential emergency powers

Four Senate Republicans joined forces with the chamber's Democrats to reject President Trump's emergency justification for implementing tariffs against Canada, dealing the president the first legislative loss of his second term.

April 2, 2025

Senate Republicans release budget plan as Trump commits to steep spending cuts

Senate Budget Committee Republicans said after a Wednesday meeting with President Trump that they're confident about the path forward for enacting his agenda and his commitment to deep spending cuts in the process.

April 2, 2025

Speaker Johnson shuts down House to avoid bid to allow proxy voting for new parents

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday canceled votes for the rest of the week after he failed to stop renegade Republicans from forcing a vote to restore proxy voting in the chamber.

April 1, 2025

Senators push bipartisan Russia sanctions bill to bolster Ukraine peace deal negotiations

Half of the Senate, led by Sens. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, and Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut Democrat, introduced a bipartisan bill on Tuesday to impose sanctions against Russia if the Kremlin refuses to negotiate a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine.

April 1, 2025

House Republicans reject Senate talk of lowering spending cut targets for Trump agenda

House Republicans are warning their Senate counterparts against lowering spending cut targets for a massive legislative package containing the bulk of President Trump's agenda.

April 1, 2025

House GOP leaders make move to quash proxy voting for new parents

House GOP leaders are using a procedural tactic to try to quash an effort from Rep. Anna Paulina Luna to force a House rule change to allow new parents to vote by proxy while taking time away from Washington to care for infants in their first 12 weeks of life.

April 1, 2025

Daughter of late Rep. Grijalva running to replace him in Congress

Adelita Grijalva, the daughter of the late Rep. Raul M. Grijalva, announced Monday that she would run for her father's southern Arizona seat in Congress.

March 31, 2025

Rep. Thomas Massie: Only Trump can decide Speaker Johnson’s fate

Rep. Thomas Massie is no fan of House Speaker Mike Johnson, going so far as to try and oust him last year. But now he believes the speaker's fate falls to one person: President Trump.

March 31, 2025