Congress · 116th Congress
Cyber and physical threats featured in 2020 budget requests
Violence Against Women Act witness: Title IX is moot ‘because men can be women’ [jwp-video n=”1″]
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White House · 116th Congress
3 takeaways: Weekend reinforces that Trump is his own communications director
After the president himself pulled the plug on her appearances behind the White House podium, she has held just four press briefings since Nov. 1 — and none since Jan. 28.
White House · 116th Congress
Trump’s budget assumes a much rosier economic outlook than other forecasts
The roughly 1 percentage point disparity between forecasts continues through the next decade.
Congress · 116th Congress
Spending cuts, growth outpace tax cuts, military increases
For the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, Trump would increase defense spending by about 5 percent to $750 billion, despite a spending cap imposed by a deficit reduction law that requires cuts.
Congress · 116th Congress
Road Ahead: Budget week, sending a Mueller message, Senate vote on termination resolution
Also watch: Temporary Protected Status, explained [jwp-video n=”1″] The immediate Senate floor business for the week is once again confirmation of Trump nominations to federal appeals courts
Congress · 116th Congress
White House readies lean budget with fat nondefense cuts
Why presidential budget requests are usually dead on arrival, explained [jwp-video n=”1″] “I don’t think good growth policies have to obsess necessarily about the budget deficits,” National
Congress · 116th Congress
Justices break the ice, err glass, at budget hearing
Democrats have offered legislation (HR 1) to require that the justices would be. When Georgia Democrat Sanford D.
Congress · 116th Congress
Enzi moving ahead with ‘realistic’ budget resolution
Also watch: McConnell rips Green New Deal price tag: cheaper to buy every American a Ferrari [jwp-video n=”1″] Need for ‘buy-in’ In the past, Republicans insisted on writing budgets that
Congress · 116th Congress
HR 1 debate gets under way as GOP sharpens attacks
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell — who has led opposition to House Democrats’ campaign finance, elections and ethics overhaul, HR 1 — said Wednesday he believed lawmakers who support the measure
Congress · 116th Congress
New $1.4 billion Washington ‘money factory’ gets green light
From the archives: How the appropriations process is supposed to work [jwp-video n=”1″] One sentence to build it all The omnibus provision states the following: “Beginning in fiscal year
Congress · 116th Congress
5 ways Congress may try to fix the Highway Trust Fund
In 2015, the Congressional Budget Office said a 1-cent increase in fuel tax rates would generate about $1.7 billion a year, but that would drop to $1.5 billion within 10 years.
Congress · 116th Congress
Compromise or resist? Democrats still have a choice to make
The country as a whole, with Republicans and right-leaning independents added, favors at least some cooperation by a nearly 2-1 margin (64 percent).
Congress · 116th Congress
Road ahead: HR 1 vote, Cohen returns, senators seek info on Khashoggi, North Korea
HR 1, formally titled the For the People Act after Democrats’ 2018 campaign slogan, is a government overhaul package featuring changes to voting, campaign finance and ethics laws.
Congress · 116th Congress
House Democrats ready ethics overhaul for floor vote this week
Republicans may push amendments that focus on keeping people who are not U.S. citizens from voting and on efforts that highlight the bill’s creation of a new optional 6-to-1 public matching system
Congress · 116th Congress
Obscure asset seizure fund in limelight as border battle rages
Another $1 billion or so has been lopped off by the automatic cuts to “mandatory” spending known as a sequester, which first triggered in fiscal 2013 and are set to continue through fiscal 2027.
Congress · 116th Congress
McConnell confirms Senate has votes to disapprove of Trump’s emergency declaration
Watch: Trump announces national emergency on border, despite likely legal challenge [jwp-video n=”1″] Asked specifically if the resolution could be amended by the Senate, McConnell suggested
Opinion · 116th Congress
As the “X Date” looms, it’s time to defang the debt limit
This time around, prolonged negotiations seem all too likely, with the austere sequester caps on defense and domestic discretionary funding set to kick back in on Oct. 1, the start of the new fiscal year
Congress · 116th Congress
Republicans, seeing opportunities in the suburbs, advance paid leave plans
Also watch: What race ratings really mean and how we create them [jwp-video n=”1″] Blast to the present In one demonstration of how far the party has come, and how far it still has to go,
Congress · 116th Congress
Justices to make rare appearance before appropriators
The Democrats’ sweeping signature legislative push on ethics and elections, HR 1, would create a formal ethics code for Supreme Court justices, who are exempt from the code of conduct for federal
Congress · 116th Congress
Key Senate votes in 2018: CQ Vote Studies
Agreed to 60-38 (R 41-8; D 18-29; I 1-1) on Jan. 16, 2018.