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President Donald Trump arrives for a ceremony with the Philadelphia Eagles, winners of the 2025 Super Bowl, on the South Lawn of the White House on April 28.

Trump’s budget ax

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted May 5, 2025 at 2:27pm
Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought's fingerprints are all over the austere blueprint released Friday.

‘Skinny’ White House budget leaves some Senate Republicans hungry for more

By Aidan Quigley
Posted May 2, 2025 at 1:23pm, Updated May 5, 2025 at 4:24pm
Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., made a rare joint appearance with House leaders to show support for a full-year continuing resolution.

Fiscal hawks show a change of heart toward spending bills

By Aidan Quigley
Posted April 16, 2025 at 5:00am
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, right, made a vague pledge to secure deep spending cuts in a rare joint news conference with Speaker Mike Johnson.

Budget promises put to the test

By David Lerman, Caitlin Reilly and Aidan Quigley
Posted April 14, 2025 at 4:54pm
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., right, and Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., hold a news conference on the revised budget resolution on Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

House OKs budget blueprint after GOP leaders’ cuts pledge

By David Lerman, Caitlin Reilly and Aidan Quigley
Posted April 10, 2025 at 9:34am, Updated at 1:16pm
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, arrives for the House Rules Committee hearing in the Capitol on Wednesday on bringing the budget resolution to the House floor.

Budget vote postponed in House as GOP works to quell revolt

By David Lerman, Caitlin Reilly and Aidan Quigley
Posted April 9, 2025 at 5:38pm, Updated at 9:47pm
Former Rep. Robert K. Dornan, R-Calif., on right, marches with anti-abortion activists on Jan. 22, 1998, to mark the 25th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

DC funding fix runs into abortion concerns in House

By Aidan Quigley
Posted April 1, 2025 at 1:22pm
Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, faces a challenging climate on fiscal 2026 bills.

Tough climate for appropriations

By David Lerman, Aidan Quigley and Caitlin Reilly
Posted March 28, 2025 at 6:40pm
President Donald Trump, here with Speaker Mike Johnson on the House steps on March 12, is backing a funding fix for the District of Columbia budget. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Trump endorses Senate-passed DC budget fix

By Aidan Quigley and Andrew Menezes
Posted March 28, 2025 at 1:08pm
Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., says the money wasn't needed anymore and therefore available for higher priorities.

Vanished earmarks in stopgap law pose challenge to local projects’ return

By Aidan Quigley
Posted March 24, 2025 at 2:46pm
Flyers demanding Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., vote against the continuing resolution are taped to the Capitol South Metro station in Washington on Friday morning.

Trump signs stopgap spending measure, averting shutdown

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted March 14, 2025 at 5:31pm, Updated March 15, 2025 at 1:48pm
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., arrive for Senate Democrats’ lunch meeting in the Capitol on Thursday.

Senate Democrats relent on six-month stopgap funding bill

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted March 13, 2025 at 7:01pm, Updated at 8:02pm
Vice President JD Vance arrives to attend the House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Vance pitches separate cuts package as House GOP preps CR vote

By Aidan Quigley and David Lerman
Posted March 11, 2025 at 12:23pm
Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., talks with reporters after a meeting of the House Republican Conference in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, Feb. 25.

Long-term stopgap measure sets up partisan clash

By Aidan Quigley
Posted March 8, 2025 at 4:55pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., seen in the Capitol last week, will try to shepherd a continuing resolution through the House despite a partisan spat over reining in presidential spending authority. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Stopgap spending decision time

By David Lerman, Aidan Quigley and Caitlin Reilly
Posted March 3, 2025 at 3:57pm
Speaker Mike Johnson conducts a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center after a House Republican Conference meeting on Tuesday.

No clear path to House budget adoption amid GOP holdouts

By Aidan Quigley
Posted February 25, 2025 at 12:28pm, Updated at 4:25pm
Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon is among the holdouts that GOP leaders need to win over.

House Republicans ready to roll the dice on budget blueprint

By Aidan Quigley and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted February 21, 2025 at 4:51pm
Vice President JD Vance leaves the Republican Senate luncheon in the Capitol on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Senate GOP sticks with slimmer budget plan, despite Trump

By Caitlin Reilly, David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted February 19, 2025 at 10:39am, Updated at 3:45pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., leaves the House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on Tuesday.

House GOP preps all-in-one budget blueprint for committee vote

By Aidan Quigley, Caitlin Reilly and David Lerman
Posted February 11, 2025 at 1:45pm
Senate Budget Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., arrives for the start of the confirmation hearing for director of Office of Management and Budget nominee Russell Vought on Jan. 22.

Senate GOP prepares to move on two-step budget package

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted February 5, 2025 at 5:50pm
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, a leader of the Freedom Caucus, boycotted a GOP policy retreat and made clear his opposition to a preliminary budget plan.

House GOP in a quandary

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted February 3, 2025 at 3:09pm
Rep. James E. Clyburn, D-S.C., talks with reporters after a House Democratic Caucus meeting about then-President Joe Biden's candidacy at the Democratic National Committee on July 9, 2024.

Clyburn ready to elevate rural poverty issues on Appropriations

By Aidan Quigley
Posted February 3, 2025 at 1:59pm
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., speaks during the Senate Democrats’ news conference on the Trump administration’s spending freeze on federal assistance on Tuesday.

White House rescinds sweeping order to pause federal aid

By Aidan Quigley
Posted January 29, 2025 at 2:21pm
“I don't mind reviewing things. I just want to find out what happened, and what's the end game,” Senate Budget Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said.

White House seeks to tamp down concerns over funding directive

By Aidan Quigley, Caitlin Reilly and David Lerman
Posted January 28, 2025 at 2:37pm, Updated at 3:39pm
Elon Musk arrives at the Capitol Rotunda for the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump on Jan. 20. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO applauded when Trump spoke about planting the U.S. flag on Mars, though NASA funds could get caught up in a budget freeze.

White House sends aid freeze questionnaire to federal agencies

By Aidan Quigley
Posted January 28, 2025 at 10:04am
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump speak to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One en route to North Carolina and California on Friday.

Trump White House orders freeze on federal grants, loans

By Aidan Quigley
Posted January 27, 2025 at 9:47pm
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries talks with reporters after his weekly news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center on Thursday.

Jeffries warns GOP over ‘big, beautiful’ budget bill

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted January 23, 2025 at 5:32pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is pushing for a comprehensive reconciliation package despite divisions within his conference and opposition from Senate Republicans.

Budget reconciliation ‘horse race’

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted January 17, 2025 at 2:26pm
Speaker Mike Johnson is congratulated by House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, left, after Johnson won the speakership for the 119th Congress on Friday.

House GOP moves to block late-week suspension votes

By Aidan Quigley
Posted January 3, 2025 at 7:26pm, Updated January 4, 2025 at 9:10am
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., struggled to pass a stopgap funding measure that alienated his party's right flank.

Political fallout over spending

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted December 23, 2024 at 1:27pm
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., conducts a news conference after the Senate luncheons in the Capitol on Tuesday.

No shutdown: Biden signs three-month stopgap funding bill

By David Lerman, Caitlin Reilly and Aidan Quigley
Posted December 20, 2024 at 7:00pm, Updated December 22, 2024 at 9:15pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., talks with the media in the Capitol on Thursday before a vote on a continuing resolution to fund the government.

Trump-endorsed stopgap funding plan goes down to defeat

By Aidan Quigley and Caitlin Reilly
Posted December 19, 2024 at 7:24pm, Updated at 8:16pm
President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a news conference Monday at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

Trump scrambles stopgap bill as GOP leaders mull next moves

By Aidan Quigley and David Lerman
Posted December 18, 2024 at 6:17pm, Updated at 7:32pm
Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., participates in a House Judiciary Committee markup of a report recommending that the House cite Attorney General Merrick B. Garland for contempt of Congress on May 16.

Rep. Bishop picked for No. 2 slot in Trump OMB after statewide loss

By Aidan Quigley
Posted December 10, 2024 at 8:10pm
Incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., is pushing for a two-pronged reconciliation process to pass border security and other spending and then tax cuts next year.

Big tax-cut and spending agenda

By David Lerman, Caitlin Reilly and Aidan Quigley
Posted December 9, 2024 at 3:23pm
Rep. Mark Alford, R-Mo., says he wants to bring communications skills he honed as a TV news anchor to the powerful spending panel. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Angling for open Appropriations seats set to ratchet up

By Aidan Quigley
Posted November 27, 2024 at 8:45am
Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene will head a new House subcommittee designed to help curb federal spending.

Disaster aid scrubbing

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted November 22, 2024 at 2:44pm
Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young testifies at a March 21 House Budget Committee hearing on the president's fiscal 2025 budget request.

White House asks for nearly $100B disaster relief package

By Aidan Quigley and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted November 18, 2024 at 4:53pm
President-elect Donald Trump has yet to tip his hand on whether he wants Congress to pass an omnibus spending package this year. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Funding strategy unresolved

By David Lerman, Aidan Quigley and Caitlin Reilly
Posted November 12, 2024 at 4:57pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during a campaign rally with Derek Merrin, Republican candidate for Ohio’s 9th Congressional District, in Holland, Ohio, on Oct. 26.

Disaster aid bill seen more likely than omnibus spending package post-election

By Aidan Quigley
Posted October 30, 2024 at 10:52am, Updated at 3:36pm
Longtime appropriator Mitch McConnell, who is stepping down from his role as Senate minority leader, could become the top Republican on the Defense Appropriators Subcommittee in the next Congress.

Spending panel shake-up likely in Senate post-elections

By Aidan Quigley
Posted October 24, 2024 at 6:25pm
House Energy-Water Appropriations Subcommittee ranking member Marcy Kaptur, the longest-serving woman in congressional history, is in a tough reelection race.

Elections poised to scramble House Appropriations lineup

By Aidan Quigley
Posted October 24, 2024 at 6:03pm
Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna speaks at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 17.

Helene, Milton wreckage puts spotlight on disaster loan program

By Aidan Quigley
Posted October 10, 2024 at 6:59pm
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks about flooding in North Carolina at the White House daily press briefing on Tuesday.

Hurricane relief funds stable for now, officials say

By David Jordan, John T. Bennett and Aidan Quigley
Posted October 1, 2024 at 5:39pm
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., conclude a news conference in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Short-term funding patch ready for Biden’s signature

By Aidan Quigley
Posted September 25, 2024 at 4:36pm, Updated at 6:27pm
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., pictured at a news conference on Tuesday, is preparing for his last post-election wrap-up as leader.

Two roads diverged in a lame-duck spending endgame

By Aidan Quigley
Posted September 25, 2024 at 10:14am
Rep. Andy Harris, the new leader of the House Freedom Caucus, says he will use his understanding of the appropriations process to push for the most conservative spending outcomes possible.

An unusual choice for House Freedom Caucus leader takes reins

By Aidan Quigley
Posted September 24, 2024 at 6:30am
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., background, greet Architect of the Capitol workers during the “first nail ceremony,” marking the start of construction of the inauguration platform on the West Front plaza of the Capitol on Wednesday.

December stopgap funding bill readied for House floor action

By Aidan Quigley
Posted September 22, 2024 at 5:11pm, Updated at 6:19pm
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., arrives for a House Democratic Caucus meeting in the Capitol Visitor Center on July 23.

House eyes vote early next week on bipartisan CR

By Aidan Quigley, Paul M. Krawzak and David Lerman
Posted September 19, 2024 at 5:30pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., talks with reporters in the Capitol after last votes of the week on Thursday.

Johnson goes back to ‘Plan A’ on stopgap bill, for now

By Aidan Quigley
Posted September 17, 2024 at 11:43am, Updated at 3:45pm
House GOP leaders are struggling to settle on a strategy for passing a funding extension that could muster a majority vote.

Long wait for a funding plan

By Aidan Quigley, Peter Cohn and David Lerman
Posted September 16, 2024 at 3:52pm
Rep. Mike Garcia, R-Calif., walks down the House steps after the final vote of the week on Thursday.

Emergency veterans bill appears to be on a fast track

By Aidan Quigley
Posted September 16, 2024 at 1:54pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony for fallen servicemembers killed in the 2021 terrorist attack at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, in the Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday.

Six-month stopgap funds bill yanked from House floor

By Aidan Quigley and David Lerman
Posted September 11, 2024 at 12:25pm, Updated at 5:02pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., conducts a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center after a House Republican Conference meeting on Tuesday.

GOP leaders to roll the dice on doomed stopgap funds bill

By Aidan Quigley and David Lerman
Posted September 10, 2024 at 3:23pm
House Armed Services Chairman Mike D. Rogers, R-Ala., says the GOP leadership-drafted continuing resolution is "terrible for defense."

Johnson’s stopgap funds plan appears headed for defeat in House

By Aidan Quigley
Posted September 9, 2024 at 8:47pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is pushing a voting restriction measure opposed by Democrats as he struggles to pass a six-month funding extension.

Politics of stopgap spending

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted September 9, 2024 at 2:22pm
Former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, talks with Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on the third night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 17.

Six-month stopgap funds bill with voting rider unveiled in House

By Aidan Quigley
Posted September 7, 2024 at 10:37am
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., talks with reporters after his weekly news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center on July 23.

Opening bid on stopgap funds package readied in House

By Aidan Quigley
Posted September 4, 2024 at 5:00am
Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., speaks during the final night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention.

Anti-Trump Republicans at DNC offer tips on approaching swing voters

By Aidan Quigley
Posted August 23, 2024 at 5:00am
John Legend, joined by Sheila E., perform Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy” during day three of the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Sweet (temporary) home Chicago

By Jason Dick, Aidan Quigley and Daniela Altimari
Posted August 22, 2024 at 9:50am
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Democratic vice presidential nominee, and his wife Gwen, acknowledge the crowd after he spoke on the third night of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago, Ill., on Wednesday.

Walz-ing with Tim at the DNC

By Aidan Quigley
Posted August 22, 2024 at 12:27am
Minnesota Gov. and vice presidential nominee Tim Walz does a podium check Wednesday before the Democratic National Convention resumes in Chicago. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

As GOP attacks, Democrats urge Walz to lean into military record

By Aidan Quigley
Posted August 21, 2024 at 5:25pm
Former President Barack Obama speaks during day two of the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Tuesday.

Via Chicago: Obamas look to deliver for Harris

By Aidan Quigley and Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted August 21, 2024 at 12:25am
A former contender for the vice presidential nomination, Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., addressed a Democratic Party veterans council at the party's convention on Tuesday in Chicago. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Can toxic exposure law break GOP’s electoral edge with veterans?

By Aidan Quigley
Posted August 20, 2024 at 8:12pm
Crews prepare for the balloon drop inside the United Center on Thursday, August 15, as Chicago gears up for the Democratic National Convention. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

California delegates hope Harris surge helps House battles

By Aidan Quigley
Posted August 19, 2024 at 3:28pm
Rep. Ken Calvert would need a waiver to remain the top Republican on the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee if he wins reelection. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Calvert wants to stay at Defense panel, if he survives November

By Aidan Quigley
Posted August 19, 2024 at 6:30am
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., talks with reporters in the Capitol on June 28.

Facing push from restless conservatives, speaker mulls March CR

By Aidan Quigley
Posted August 15, 2024 at 8:49am
The bill's sponsor, Ohio Democrat Sherrod Brown, is facing a tough reelection race this November in an increasingly red state.

Bipartisan Senate group offers bill to plug VA benefit shortfall

By Aidan Quigley
Posted July 30, 2024 at 5:00am
Senate Appropriations Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., left, and ranking member Susan Collins, R-Maine, agreed to shelve the Homeland Security bill until the fall.

Spending bill punts

By David Lerman, Aidan Quigley and Valerie Yurk
Posted July 29, 2024 at 6:46pm
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., speaks to reporters in the Capitol on July 9.

Homeland Security bill pulled from Senate Appropriations markup

By Aidan Quigley
Posted July 29, 2024 at 4:31pm
Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Jerry Moran, R-Kan., are seen in the Capitol on July 8.

Massive veterans budget gap rips hole in appropriations process

By Aidan Quigley
Posted July 26, 2024 at 9:18am
Speaker Mike Johnson holds the convention gavel during his podium check on stage at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee before the start of the Republican National Convention on July 15.

Sources: House may scrap votes next week, start recess early

By Aidan Quigley
Posted July 22, 2024 at 2:23pm
Sen. JD Vance appears on stage for a podium check at the Fiserv Forum before the start of the Tuesday session of the Republican National Convention.

Vance has diverse record on tax, spending

By Aidan Quigley and Caitlin Reilly
Posted July 17, 2024 at 12:30pm
Senate Appropriations Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., left, speaks with ranking member Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, before a hearing on Nov. 8, 2023.

Senate appropriators ready emergency adds to spending bills

By Aidan Quigley and John M. Donnelly
Posted July 8, 2024 at 3:33pm, Updated at 7:13pm
Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn speaks to a reporter in the Capitol on June 4.

Trump plan to eliminate tip tax garners Capitol Hill interest

By Caitlin Reilly and Aidan Quigley
Posted June 13, 2024 at 7:14pm
Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., talks on his phone before a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on Oct. 31, 2023.

Oregon casino battle works its way into appropriations process

By Aidan Quigley
Posted June 10, 2024 at 11:46am
House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., is spending millions of dollars to fend off a primary challenger with deep pockets.

Appropriations sprint begins

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted June 3, 2024 at 4:20pm
“The guy who wins a bar fight isn’t the guy with the most money, it’s the guy with the most friends," Cole said of his primary challenge in Oklahoma.

Cole, taking no chances, readies for primary ‘bar fight’

By Aidan Quigley
Posted May 31, 2024 at 10:56am
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., speaks during a House GOP news conference in the Capitol on April 30.

Scalise lays out ambitious summer appropriations timetable

By Aidan Quigley
Posted May 22, 2024 at 2:03pm
House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., unveiled subcommittee allocations with deep cuts to nondefense spending that angered Democrats.

Funding allocations trouble

By David Lerman, Aidan Quigley and John M. Donnelly
Posted May 20, 2024 at 3:39pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., on Wednesday.

Greene’s ouster attempt of Johnson is tabled

By Aidan Quigley
Posted May 8, 2024 at 6:35pm
Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Thomas Massie, R-Ky., talk with reporters before a meeting with Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Greene’s ‘vacate’ push on hold amid ongoing talks with speaker

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted May 7, 2024 at 4:47pm
Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Thomas Massie, R-Ky., are seen after a meeting with Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., in the Capitol on Monday.

Greene won’t move against Johnson just yet

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted May 6, 2024 at 7:23pm
Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., leaves a House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on April 16.

Cole extends earmark request deadlines after pushback

By Aidan Quigley
Posted May 1, 2024 at 11:00am
Rep. Mike Garcia, R-Calif., says new rule on HUD projects "kind of pisses me off."

Lawmakers chafe at nonprofit earmark ban, tight request deadline

By Aidan Quigley
Posted May 1, 2024 at 9:08am
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., right, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., attend a ceremony in the Capitol rotunda on Monday.

Democratic leaders to back Johnson in potential motion to vacate

By Aidan Quigley
Posted April 30, 2024 at 10:54am, Updated at 11:26am
House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., at left, issued new restrictions on House earmarks that angered Democrats and nonprofit groups.

Earmarks culture war

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted April 29, 2024 at 2:42pm
House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., at left, placed a new restriction on earmarks for nonprofits amid GOP concerns about LGBTQ programs. Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call

Nonprofits take a hit in House earmark rules

By Aidan Quigley
Posted April 25, 2024 at 11:08am, Updated at 1:36pm
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., talks with reporters in the Capitol on Thursday.

Democrats prepare to ride to Johnson’s rescue, gingerly

By Caitlin Reilly, Aidan Quigley and David Lerman
Posted April 18, 2024 at 1:29pm
House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., arrives for a Defense Appropriations Subcommittee hearing in the Rayburn building on Wednesday.

Cole eyes axing HUD earmarks for nonprofit organizations

By Aidan Quigley
Posted April 18, 2024 at 6:00am
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., arrives for an interview with CNN in the Will Rogers corridor in the Capitol on Wednesday.

Foreign aid supplemental unveiled in House; Biden supports

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted April 17, 2024 at 11:58am, Updated at 6:39pm
From left, House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., and Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., participate in a news conference following a House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Lifeline for foreign aid package, speaker’s job up to Democrats

By Aidan Quigley and David Lerman
Posted April 16, 2024 at 12:29pm
Cole arrives for the House Rules Committee hearing on the impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden in the Capitol on Dec. 12, 2023.

Rep. Tom Cole seeks to limit earmark-driven political headaches

By Aidan Quigley
Posted April 15, 2024 at 3:53pm
Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., leaves a House Republican Conference meeting on Oct. 24, 2023.

Harris sticks with Agriculture spending, Amodei likely to head DHS panel

By Aidan Quigley and Caitlin Reilly
Posted April 12, 2024 at 2:53pm
Reps. David Joyce, R-Ohio, left, and Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, conduct a House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee budget hearing on Wednesday with DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

New House Appropriations cardinals slate starts to take shape

By Aidan Quigley
Posted April 11, 2024 at 5:35pm, Updated at 6:51pm
Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., has become the new chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee. He will give up his chairmanship of the Transportation-HUD Appropriations Subcommittee and the House Rules Committee.

Cole secures Appropriations gavel ahead of fraught budget cycle

By Aidan Quigley
Posted April 10, 2024 at 9:54am
Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., nominates Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, for speaker on Oct. 18, 2023. Jordan's unsuccessful bid led to Speaker Mike Johnson's election the following week.

Cole gets Steering Committee nod for House Appropriations gavel

By Aidan Quigley
Posted April 9, 2024 at 8:16pm, Updated at 8:57pm
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., has pushed for Energy Department funding to clean up a decommissioned nuclear site in her state.

Murray keeps Energy-Water panel, gives up Military Construction-VA

By Aidan Quigley
Posted April 9, 2024 at 7:44pm
Rep. Robert B. Aderholt, R-Ala., had been coy about his plans since Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, announced she was stepping down.

Aderholt won’t challenge Cole for top Appropriations slot

By Aidan Quigley
Posted April 9, 2024 at 2:26pm
Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., arrives for a vote in the Capitol on Nov. 2, 2023.

Senate Democrats weigh Feinstein’s Energy-Water panel successor

By Aidan Quigley and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted April 8, 2024 at 1:06pm, Updated at 5:54pm