Democrats currently control the Senate in a 51–49 majority, but 34 seats are up for grabs. When polls close on Nov. 5, millions of Americans will have decided who will represent them in 435 congressional districts nationwide. Like the Senate, the House has the authority to move forward wit...
If we want to go into policy though, his record is hardly impressive in that regard imo, though I blame that mostly on the complete gridlock of congress. Still the fish rots from the head down. We coddled Manchin and Sinema too much. We are better off treating them like the traitors ...
The agreement is the necessary next step after Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson and Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer agreed earlier in the year on a $1.59 trillion discretionary spending level for the fiscal year that began on Oct. 1. Congress will ev...
What has happened so far? The maindevelopments today: Donald Trump secured the presidency after Wisconsin, one of the crucial battlegrounds in the US election, was called for the former president by the Associated Press. Republicans’ majority in the US Senate swelled on Wednesday, after the part...
“We should have a major majority, a super majority, but we don’t,” she told CNN in an interview. “I think it’s based on the performance of this Congress.” Greene argued the American people approved the “MAGA agenda,” and “that was not the agenda that was focused on in this...
February 16, 2023 Staff Reporter 0 Congressman Ro Khanna, 46, a Democrat who represents California’s 17th Congressional District, is the co-chairman of the Congressional Caucus on India and Indian-Americans, along with his Republican House colleague Mike Waltz (R-Fla) in the 118th Congress....
The return of Donald Trump as president and likely Republican control of Congress could have a notable effect on the US economy, though policy priorities remain to be seen. The trade, tax and immigration policy mix could increase inflation and slow GDP growth, but the impact is li...
But Congress has increased the debt ceiling before when Republican presidents like Donald Trump and others were in the White House. The main reason they are refusing to do so now is because the lower house of Congress has a Republican majority, and President Biden is a Democrat. ...
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said negotiations between the two chambers could begin during the annual August recess in an effort to move them toward agreement in September. Biden on Monday vowed to veto the House Republican spending bills if they make it to his desk, saying they b...
But Congress has increased the debt ceiling before when Republican presidents like Donald Trump and others were in the White House. The main reason they are refusing to do so now is because the lower house of Congress has a Republican majority, and President Biden is a Democrat. ...