Congress · 119th Congress
Earmarks flood spending bills after a year’s hiatus
That measure far outshone the rest, with just under $6 billion in project funding across 3,212 individual projects.
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Congress · 119th Congress
Appropriators backed a crime-fighting unit. DOJ closed it anyway.
↵↵Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche sent a memo March 6 to establish an initiative called "Operation Take Back America" that would in part use OCDETF resources to "implement core policy objectives"
Capitol Ink · 119th Congress
‘Cap’-py days are here again — Capitol Ink’s best of 2025
Matson has fun with Republicans on Nov. 6 after an Election Day blitzing that saw Democrats score some big wins in an off-cycle year.
Congress · 119th Congress
After a shutdown, no ‘A’s for effort
↵↵"The idea that we are arguing about whether or not people get … $6 a day to eat, but we're not debating the fact that Elon Musk gets $8 million a day — we need to talk about what real welfare looks like
Merkley ties Senate in knots with marathon floor speech
The marathon speech, which began not long after 6 p.m., had lasted for more than 17 hours and was still proceeding at midday Wednesday.
Trump directs Pentagon to shift funds to make payroll for troops
The full Democratic Caucus plans to meet in-person at 6 p.m.
Doctors cancel telehealth appointments as Medicare coverage lapses
Dr. Barbara Spivak, a primary care doctor, conducts a telehealth session with a patient in Watertown, Mass., on March 6, 2023.
Campaigns · 119th Congress
At the Races: Slowdown and shutdown
In Utah, a legislative committee tasked with redrawing the state’s congressional map under a court-ordered process considered several proposed maps this week ahead of an Oct. 6 vote on a recommendation
Neither side blinking yet as House preps for CR vote
There’s an unlikely, though attractive, scenario where if both chambers could clear the stopgap bill by this weekend, lawmakers wouldn’t then need to return to Washington until the week of Oct. 6.
Statehood advocates look to Congress after Trump’s DC police takeover
doing things like working to fill vacancies in the U.S. attorney’s office — which suffered a spate of firings when the administration targeted prosecutors who had worked on cases related to the Jan. 6,
GOP spending bills run into intraparty friction in House
Nondefense programs would be cut by nearly 6 percent, for a topline of $705.6 billion. Including defense funding, the total discretionary topline would amount to nearly $1.6 trillion.Â
Congressional agencies look for boost amid government downsizing
The Capitol Police are asking for $967.8 million, an increase of roughly 20 percent over current enacted levels, continuing an upward trend that accelerated after a mob attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6,
Hill wants $15 billion for weapons Pentagon didn’t seek: report
The stopgap spending bill’s $895.2 billion for Defense programs is $6 billion over fiscal 2024, a cut in spending after inflation is factored in, while nondefense departments and agencies saw their nominal
Vance pitches separate cuts package as House GOP preps CR vote
Democrats are expected to widely vote against the measure, which would cut nondefense spending by $13 billion while giving defense spending a $6 billion boost, according to House Republicans.Â
CR would provide $1.5 billion for extra, unrequested warship
That is $6 billion more for defense than was appropriated in fiscal 2024, a growth rate of less than 1 percent and not enough to outrun inflation.
Trump predicts no shutdown as Congress faces spending deadline this week
In the debate-limiting cloture vote on March 6, Chavez-DeRemer won the support of 66 senators, with only Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul voting in opposition from the GOP side of the aisle.
Long-term stopgap measure sets up partisan clash
Meanwhile, defense would see a roughly $6 billion boost over levels appropriated for last year, GOP aides said, including for shipbuilding costs and military pay increases.
Key dates to watch in 2025 for the 119th Congress
Jan. 6: Joint session to count Electoral College ballots Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to preside over a joint session of Congress certifying that Trump defeated her in the previous year’s general