Senate Republicans to move forward on Trump agenda as House stalls on budget
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With House GOP stuck, Senate pushes ahead with its plan to fund Trump's agenda
Senate Budget chair Graham wants to plow forward on a funding package that bundles border security and defense spending as the House continues to struggle with its plan.ABC News - 5h -
Watch live: House GOP leaders discuss advancing Trump agenda
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and other House GOP leaders on Wednesday morning will discuss their plan to advance President Trump's sprawling agenda. The press conference comes as Republican ...The Hill - 16h -
Republican-led states rush to align with Trump's MAGA agenda
Republican governors and state lawmakers are rushing to explicitly align themselves with or mimic some of the most prominent actions President Donald Trump has taken since he was sworn in.NBC News - 20h -
Republicans scramble for solutions on Trump legislative agenda after punting vote
House Republicans are scrambling to find a solution to internal disagreements over their plan to pass President Trump’s sprawling agenda, an effort that kicked into high gear after leadership was ...The Hill - 1d -
Senate confirms Pam Bondi for attorney general, RFK Jr.'s nomination moves forward
The Senate confirmed former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi as the U.S. attorney general on Tuesday evening. The Senate Finance Committee voted along party lines to advance Robert F. Kennedy ...CBS News - 1d -
Senate preparing to move first on budget package amid House stalemate
Senate Budget Committee Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) will brief Republican senators Wednesday about moving first on a budget resolution to lay the groundwork for a package focused on border ...The Hill - 1d -
House GOP forced to punt preliminary vote on Trump legislative agenda bill
The GOP’s ambitious plan to quickly advance President Trump’s legislative agenda is hitting an early speed bump, with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) being forced to punt an initial vote on the ...The Hill - 1d -
Trump steamrolls Republicans in Congress with flurry of unilateral moves
President Donald Trump is moving at breakneck speed to disrupt and reshape the federal government, challenging oversight powers reserved for lawmakers.NBC News - 2d -
House Republicans struggle to clinch budget resolution
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Republicans leave Florida frustrated with lack of final plan to pass Trump agenda
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) arrived at this week’s House Republican retreat with hopes of uniting the fractious GOP conference around a plan to pass President Trump's agenda — but instead, the ...The Hill - 6d -
Trump demands for legislative agenda squeeze House GOP
DORAL, Fla. — Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is staring out at a minefield as he looks to pass a sprawling tax and immigration package that pleases all corners of the ideologically diverse Republican ...The Hill - Jan. 29 -
Republicans are in their honeymoon phase. But big clashes over Trump's agenda are unresolved.
The focus at the House GOP's three-day retreat was on party unity rather than diving into the weeds on big funding cuts and legislative procedure.NBC News - Jan. 29 -
Trump budget nominee tells senators 2020 election was 'rigged'
Russell Vought, President Trump’s pick to head the White House budget office, told senators in his confirmation questionnaire that he believes the 2020 presidential election was “rigged.” Asked by ...The Hill - Jan. 28 -
Trump lays out Republican agenda at GOP conference
President Trump on Monday night spoke about his party's plans at the 2025 Republican Issues Conference in Miami. CBS News congressional correspondent Caitlin Huey-Burns has more on that and more of ...CBS News - Jan. 28 -
White House orders freeze on federal aid to focus on Trump's conservative agenda
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has ordered a freeze on domestic and foreign federal aid in a sweeping effort to stop government funding for causes that don't fit with his agenda.NBC News - Jan. 28 -
Trump huddling with House Republicans at Florida retreat
President Trump is hosting House Republicans at his Doral golf resort in Florida for a retreat on legislative efforts. CBS News' Weijia Jiang and Nancy Cordes have the latest.CBS News - Jan. 27 -
Live updates: Trump addresses House Republicans; Senate confirms Treasury secretary
President Trump is set to address the House Republicans at their annual policy retreat in Florida, while the Senate votes on the confirmation of his Treasury Department nominee, Scott Bessent.The Hill - Jan. 27 -
Senate tees up more confirmations while House GOP holds retreat to talk Trump agenda
The Senate is set to churn through more of President Trump’s cabinet nominees this week, with a handful of his controversial picks set to field questions during their confirmation hearings. Tulsi ...The Hill - Jan. 27 -
House Republicans retreat to Trump’s Miami resort to hash out his agenda
It’s decision time for House Republicans as they gather for their annual policy retreat in Florida this week. While they are escaping the frigid conditions in Washington, Republicans must still ...The Hill - Jan. 27 -
Trump 'surprised' about Republican senators who oppose Pete Hegseth
Trump told reporters he was "surprised" Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins planned to vote against former Fox News host Pete Hegseth's nomination to lead the Defense Department.NBC News - Jan. 24 -
A hurdle for Trump's agenda: Republicans who have never backed laws raising the debt ceiling
Members of President Donald Trump’s own party could complicate his effort to avoid a standoff over extending the nation’s borrowing limit — which means a complication for Trump’s legislative plans ...NBC News - Jan. 24 -
Trump’s Jan. 6 pardons divide House Republicans
President Trump’s decision to pardon hundreds of protesters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — including many accused of assaulting police officers — is dividing House Republicans, with some ...The Hill - Jan. 23 -
How Republicans Will Try to Pay for Trump’s Agenda, and a New A.D.H.D. Study
Plus, an A.I. judge at the X Games.The New York Times - Jan. 23 -
Trump to tap health industry lobbyist for top White House budget job
Appointment would deal a blow to Robert Kennedy’s hopes of overhauling the sectorFinancial Times - Jan. 23 -
Conflicting accounts on congressional Republicans' approach to Trump's agenda
Trump and Vance brainstormed with top congressional Republicans on a path to execute the president’s ambitious agenda amid narrow majorities in both chambers of Congress.ABC News - Jan. 22 -
Why Trump hasn't moved forward with tariffs — yet
Amid the whirl of orders Donald Trump issued in the early hours of his presidency, one was conspicuous in its absence: new tariffs on Canada and Mexico.NBC News - Jan. 22 -
Trump's Jan. 6 pardons face pushback from some Republican senators
Some Republican senators pushed back against President Donald Trump’s decision to issue pardons and commute the sentences of Jan. 6 defendants.NBC News - Jan. 21 -
12:30 Report — Trump moves to the trickier phase of his agenda
{beacon} 12:30 REPORT It’s Tuesday. We’ve all woken up in a very different Washington. Donald Trump is president once again and has already made dozens of major changes to the country with the ...The Hill - Jan. 21 -
Republicans face a high-stakes clash over Trump's legislative agenda
Donald Trump will take the oath of office in the midst of a growing feud among congressional Republicans over how to deliver on his policy agenda.NBC News - Jan. 20 -
House Budget Republicans eye more than 200 spending cuts, tax changes for major bill
Republicans on the House Budget Committee are considering more than 200 potential budget cuts, tax breaks, tariffs and changes to programs like Medicare and Social Security in preparation for their ...The Hill - Jan. 17 -
Blizzard of confirmation hearings to offer an early Trump test for Senate Republicans
Cabinet confirmation hearings will provide an early glimpse at how Senate Republicans will handle Donald Trump's wishes in his second term.NBC News - Jan. 13 -
Senate GOP fears landmines in House could derail Trump's tax agenda
Senate Republicans fear that President-elect Trump’s tax agenda could be derailed in the House by several potential landmines, including calls by some GOP lawmakers to raise corporate taxes and to ...The Hill - Jan. 10 -
Senate Moves Forward Bill to Expand Deportations of Migrants Accused of Crimes
Most Democrats joined Republicans in voting to take up the measure, which would require the detention and deportation of undocumented immigrants charged with minor crimes.The New York Times - Jan. 9 -
Trump attends Carter funeral after meeting with senators on second term agenda
NBC News Correspondent Vaughn Hillyard joins Meet the Press NOW to report on President-elect Trump’s meeting with GOP Senators on Capitol Hill to discuss early legislative strategy for his incoming ...NBC News - Jan. 9 -
Trump and Senate Republicans still divided on how to implement his agenda
President-elect Donald Trump is meeting with Senate Republicans to try to get lawmakers "on the same page" on how to advance some of his major policy initiatives.ABC News - Jan. 8 -
Trump, GOP senators wrestle over strategy for president-elect's agenda
President-elect Trump and Republican senators wrestled over the best strategy for moving Trump’s top agenda items, including border security and tax relief, during a two-hour meeting at the Capitol ...The Hill - Jan. 9 -
Trump meets with GOP senators on Capitol Hill to push legislative agenda
President-elect Donald Trump met with Republican senators Wednesday night on Capitol Hill to discuss his "big beautiful bill" and all the pieces of his agenda it could hold. CBS News' Caitlin ...CBS News - Jan. 8 -
Live updates: Trump, senators talk agenda
President-elect Trump arrived late Wednesday afternoon at the Capitol, along with former first lady Melania Trump. Both stopped in the Rotunda to pay their respects to former President Carter, who ...The Hill - Jan. 8 -
Watch: Trump meets with Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill, pays respect to Carter
President-elect Trump went to Capitol Hill Wednesday evening to meet with Senate Republicans and visit the Rotunda, where the late former President Carter is lying in state. With his inauguration ...The Hill - Jan. 8
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