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Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, grabs one last puff of his cigar as he prepares the enter the Capitol for the last votes of the week on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
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Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, grabs one last puff of his cigar as he prepares the enter the Capitol for the last votes of the week on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Senators maintain they intend to include much deeper cuts of at least $1 trillion and potentially twice that amount, but the House holdouts want to see specifics on paper.
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., arrives for a House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on April 1.
And the House’s cap on a debt limit increase is $4 trillion, or $1 trillion less than the Senate’s.
On the other hand, Senate committees would receive much lower targets to preserve maximum flexibility, similar to that chamber’s adopted budget in which some panels would have to secure as little as $1
Left unchanged, that would effectively cut the D.C. budget by more than $1 billion.
He told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in January that he’d make his decision after the April 1 state Supreme Court election. Wyoming At-large Republican Rep.
Johnson also said in his Sunday show appearances that he envisioned the process looking different for fiscal 2026, which begins on Oct. 1, with efforts to solidify the cuts made by Musk and the office
R-Pa., said before the budget resolution vote that the "truth will be somewhere in the middle" between the House’s $230 billion and the Senate version, which charges the Agriculture panel with just $1
Scalise during floor debate pointed to estimates that as many as 145 million households earning less than $1 million annually would see tax increases if the law isn’t extended.
Schumer, D-N.Y., expressing opposition to tax cuts for individuals earning over $1 billion.
Patel received between $1 million and $5 million in unvested stock in Elite Depot Ltd., according to the financial disclosure and Patel’s ethics agreement.
The budget resolution assumes nearly $9 trillion in cuts through unspecified "allowances" over a decade, including $1 trillion this fiscal year.
A $4.5 trillion ceiling could impose some limits on what they’d like to do, which independent estimates have said would cost at least $1 trillion extra and probably more.
Some of the most outspoken spending hawks are pushing for at least $1 trillion in cuts over a decade; according to sources familiar with the talks, GOP leaders have proffered around $900 billion.
Scalise suggested GOP leaders were moving closer to locking in a promise of $1 trillion in spending cuts as part of the package.
"Which is why I am also calling on Senate Democrats on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to allow Kristi Noem to get to work on Day 1 as our Secretary of Homeland Security.
Congress meets in joint session at 1 p.m. for the counting of Electoral College ballots, a constitutional function that was disrupted by insurrectionists four years ago.
Once two GOP lawmakers resign in the coming weeks to join Trump’s administration, Johnson will have zero votes to spare to pass party-line bills until April 1, when Florida special elections will likely
If a protracted speaker fight lasts beyond 1 p.m. on Jan. 6, congressional scholars agree there are procedural options that could help ensure the counting and certifying of Electoral College votes that