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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., seen here Oct. 29, is insisting Democrats reopen the government before any health care negotiations take place.

Shutdown pressures on the rise

By David Lerman, Aidan Quigley and Jacob Fulton
Posted November 3, 2025 at 3:28pm
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., seen here on Oct. 23, is trying to broker a bipartisan compromise to pay federal workers during the shutdown.

Shutdown pain grows as November nears

By Aidan Quigley, Aris Folley and Jacob Fulton
Posted October 27, 2025 at 4:35pm
House Appropriations Committee Tom Cole, R-Okla., left, and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., conduct a news conference in the U.S. Capitol on the eighth day of the government shutdown on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025.

Appropriations chairman bullish on full-year spending bills after shutdown

By Aidan Quigley
Posted October 27, 2025 at 12:00pm
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., show no sign of yielding as the partial government shutdown enters its fourth week.

‘Power of the purse’ at stake

By Paul M. Krawzak, Aidan Quigley and David Lerman
Posted October 20, 2025 at 5:16pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said he has no intention of negotiating with Democrats until the shutdown ends.

Shutdown stalemate

By Aidan Quigley, Aris Folley and David Lerman
Posted October 14, 2025 at 5:45pm
Speaker Mike Johnson holds up a chart during a news conference with Senate Majority Leader John Thune on the government shutdown in the Capitol on Friday.

Mass firings begin as White House weighs keeping troops paid

By Aidan Quigley and Aris Folley
Posted October 10, 2025 at 5:16pm
President Donald Trump said Monday he'd make the "right deal" with Democrats on insurance tax credits.

Trump open to bipartisan health care deal to end shutdown

By David Lerman, Aidan Quigley and Lia DeGroot
Posted October 6, 2025 at 7:38pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said at a news conference on Monday that he plans to keep the House in recess until the government reopens. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Trapped in a shutdown

By Aidan Quigley, Peter Cohn and David Lerman
Posted October 6, 2025 at 3:03pm
Speaker Mike Johnson conducts a news conference about the government shutdown in the Capitol on Thursday. House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, right, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and House Republican Conference Chair Lisa McClain are also pictured.

Shutdown to extend into next week as Trump readies budget knife

By David Lerman, Aidan Quigley and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted October 2, 2025 at 6:03pm
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., talks with reporters in the Capitol on Wednesday.

Bipartisan talks to end shutdown percolate in Senate

By Aidan Quigley, Jessie Hellmann and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted October 1, 2025 at 5:27pm
Senate Majority Leader John Thune holds a news conference following Senate Republicans’ lunch meeting in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Partial government shutdown begins

By Aidan Quigley
Posted September 30, 2025 at 7:37pm, Updated October 1, 2025 at 12:07am
President Donald Trump prepares to greet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan before a meeting at the White House on Thursday.

White House ramps up pressure on Democrats’ shutdown strategy

By Paul M. Krawzak and Aidan Quigley
Posted September 25, 2025 at 4:49pm
President Donald Trump prepares to greet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House before a meeting with European leaders on Aug. 18.

Trump to meet with Democratic leaders ahead of shutdown deadline

By John T. Bennett and Aidan Quigley
Posted September 22, 2025 at 5:44pm, Updated at 6:54pm
House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., stops to speak to reporters in the Senate subway in the Capitol on Wednesday.

Temporary spending bill passes House, likely to stall in Senate

By Aidan Quigley
Posted September 19, 2025 at 11:06am
House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole speaks to reporters in the Senate subway in the Capitol on Wednesday.

Neither side blinking yet as House preps for CR vote

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted September 18, 2025 at 6:13pm
Rep. Bryan Steil finds himself at the center of talks to keep the government open.

GOP leaders try to quell stopgap concerns as House vote nears

By Aidan Quigley, Sandhya Raman and David Lerman
Posted September 17, 2025 at 8:59pm
Speaker Mike Johnson conducts a news conference in the Capitol after a House Republican Conference meeting on Tuesday.

Interim spending bill set to reach floor amid shaky vote count

By Aidan Quigley
Posted September 16, 2025 at 1:53pm, Updated at 7:13pm
Speaker Mike Johnson likes the idea of an old-fashioned conference committee.

White House ‘anomalies’ list kick-starts stopgap funding talks

By Aidan Quigley and David Lerman
Posted September 9, 2025 at 5:46pm
House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole favors a short-term funding extension while the White House pushes for a longer one.

Search for an endgame

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted September 8, 2025 at 3:40pm
Maryland Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen derailed the Commerce-Justice-Science spending bill in a partisan standoff over a new FBI headquarters.

Rough-and-tumble September

By Aidan Quigley and David Lerman
Posted August 4, 2025 at 4:25pm
People participate in a rally outside NPR headquarters in Washington on March 26 to call on Congress to protect funding for public broadcasters, the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting will shut down this fall

By Aidan Quigley
Posted August 1, 2025 at 3:37pm
Reps. Steve Womack, R-Ark., and Chuck Fleischmann, R-Tenn., talk before the start of a House Appropriations Committee markup on July 10, 2024.

Republicans, appropriators dominate House earmarks

By Aidan Quigley and Ryan Kelly
Posted July 31, 2025 at 2:45pm
Senate Majority Leader John Thune speaks to reporters in the Capitol on Tuesday, July 29, 2025.

Politics of appropriations

By Aidan Quigley and David Lerman
Posted July 28, 2025 at 3:04pm
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, seen in the Capitol on July 9, filed cloture Thursday on a motion to proceed to the House-passed Military Construction-VA spending bill. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Senate GOP pushes spending bills as Democratic anger builds

By Aidan Quigley
Posted July 17, 2025 at 7:26pm
House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole, pictured wielding his gavel in June, said the bills’ funding levels are below current spending but surpass the president’s request.

GOP spending bills run into intraparty friction in House

By Aidan Quigley
Posted July 15, 2025 at 5:38pm, Updated at 8:26pm
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, is one of several GOP senators who have expressed concern over foreign aid and public broadcasting cuts in the rescissions package. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Big test on rescissions

By Aidan Quigley, Paul M. Krawzak and David Lerman
Posted July 14, 2025 at 4:08pm
Speaker Mike Johnson conducts a news conference in the Capitol after a House Republican Conference meeting on Tuesday.

GOP weighs canceling recess to wrap up Trump’s budget bill

By Aidan Quigley, Caitlin Reilly and David Lerman
Posted June 24, 2025 at 1:56pm, Updated at 4:59pm
The Senate parliamentarian has flagged several key provisions of the GOP's reconciliation bill as violations of the Byrd rule that restricts what can be considered.

‘Big, beautiful’ bill picked apart

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted June 23, 2025 at 3:54pm
President Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., talk with reporters after a House Republican meeting in the Capitol on May 20. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Trump, GOP prep next chapter in spending cuts agenda

By Paul M. Krawzak and Aidan Quigley
Posted May 29, 2025 at 8:21am
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, left, and House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris, R-Md., along with other Freedom Caucus members speak to reporters about the reconciliation bill talks in the Capitol on Wednesday.

GOP budget vote goes down to the wire amid conservative pushback

By David Lerman, Aidan Quigley and Caitlin Reilly
Posted May 21, 2025 at 12:13pm, Updated at 1:45pm
President Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and House Republican Conference Chair Lisa McClain, R-Mich., talk with reporters before a House Republican Conference meeting on the budget reconciliation bill in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Trump doesn’t satisfy GOP holdouts as budget bill talks drag on

By Caitlin Reilly, Lia DeGroot, Jessie Hellmann and Aidan Quigley
Posted May 20, 2025 at 2:16pm
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., warned that the Trump administration would have its way with the Army Corps of Engineers budget, at the expense of political foes. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Red states win, blue states lose in Army Corps spending plan

By Aidan Quigley
Posted May 19, 2025 at 1:43pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., arrives at the Cannon House Office Building to meet with Republican members of the House Budget Committee before a markup Sunday.

House Budget panel approves reconciliation package on second try

By Aidan Quigley and David Lerman
Posted May 18, 2025 at 10:53pm, Updated May 19, 2025 at 12:16am
Budget Chairman Jodey C. Arrington, R-Texas, on left, speaks with staff and Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., during the House Budget Committee markup of the reconciliation bill on Friday.

Weekend do-over planned for ‘big, beautiful’ budget package

By Aidan Quigley and David Lerman
Posted May 16, 2025 at 12:46pm, Updated at 3:34pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., leaves budget reconciliation negotiations to open the House on Thursday.

GOP leaders try to keep Friday reconciliation markup on track

By David Lerman, Caitlin Reilly and Aidan Quigley
Posted May 15, 2025 at 8:42pm
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