The House voted 212-214 against beginning debate on the fiscal year 2024 defense spending bill, dealing another blow to Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who has seen his efforts to pass legislation frustrated by the far-right flank of his own party. Five Republicans broke ranks in voting ...
Biden on Monday vowed to veto the House Republican spending bills if they make it to his desk, saying they backed away from the deal. The military and veterans bill would provide $155.7 billion in discretionary spending for military construction and veterans affairs. The health and agriculture ...
Thirty-eight House Republican lawmakers voted against the President-elect Trump-backed government spending bill whichfailed to clearthe lower chamber with just over a day before the shutdown. Here’s a list of the GOP representativesvoted against the measure on Thursday that would have pre...
Utah lawmakers have advanced a bill that experts say would establish one of the most restrictive labor laws in the country Associated PressJan. 23, 2025 Here's What to Know About FEMA as Trump Talks of Overhaul President Donald Trump says he wants to reshape the Federal Emergen...
Things changed Wednesday after Musk began a pressure campaign on X with multiple posts opposing the deal. Later that day Trump and Vance posted a statement calling on Congress to "pass a streamlined spending bill," with the president-elect echoing Musk's threats of primarying any GOP member wh...
to get that carveout the Senate had to successfully invoke cloture onthe legislation enabling it. But most of the same group of senators who voted for cloture on the October 2021 deal alsovoted for it on that bill, as did Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst (the GOP’s policy committee chair), North...
In this episode of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, HuffPost polling editor Ariel Edwards-Levy joined Galen Druke and Perry Bacon Jr. to discuss the second impeachment of President Trump: why the House votes broke down the way they did, what the different camps are in the GOP and what ...
in November, said in a statement to the Tulsa World after the third ballot that his "message to Leader McCarthy has been — and continues to be — that to obtain my support for Speaker, transformative rule changes that stop out-of-control spending and address our debt loading must occur....
If the President credibly drew a line in the sand and said “I’ll veto any spending bill that is over X”, that would change behavior on Capitol Hill. But Members of Congress believe (correctly, it seems) that Trump has no interest in fiscal restraint. So without any leadership from ...
A bill to avert a government shutdown failed on the House floor Thursday night, after Democrats and conservatives rebelled against Speaker Mike Johnson’s new Donald Trump-backed spending plan. The measure went down decisively, 174-235, failing to meet a two-thirds bar for passage under a fas...