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
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Senate NDAA would hike defense spending by $32 billion
The committee recommended adding roughly $6 billion to the Defense Department’s munitions budget, a second senior congressional official said, though it’s unclear how that money is distributed.
Federal judge again blocks end to birthright citizenship
The Supreme Court said last month in a 6-3 decision that the first round of court orders temporarily blocking the policy, known as nationwide injunctions, were impermissible.
Debt, taxes or cuts: NATO’s 5 percent solution
The share of government spending going to interest payments is currently only 4 percent in France, 6 percent in Spain, 9 percent in Italy, compared with 14 percent in the United States.
Panel recommends removing thimerosal from flu vaccines
The committee also voted 6-0, with Pebsworth abstaining, to reaffirm the panel’s recommendation that people 6 months or older who don’t have "contraindications" receive a routine annual influenza vaccination
Former Trump attorney faces contentious hearing on judicial bid
against New York Mayor Eric Adams in exchange for immigration enforcement concessions, and about the firing of federal prosecutors who worked on the prosecutions of rioters who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6,
Emil Bove faces new accusation ahead of confirmation hearing
Michael Romano, a former Justice Department attorney who worked on cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, criticized Bove for firing attorneys who worked on those cases.
Supreme Court upholds Tennessee youth transgender care ban
The 6-3 decision, written by Chief Justice John G.
Trump wants tanks ‘all over the place’ at parade; Democrats see ‘egotistical’ show
Bennie Thompson, the Mississippi Democrat who chaired the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, called the parade a "joke," adding: "This isn’t patriotism, it’s profiteering
Democrats clash with Hegseth over Guard deployment, shipbuilding
Beyond that, his written testimony showed that the Pentagon’s work with DOGE, or the Trump administration’s government efficiency outfit formerly spearheaded by billionaire Elon Musk, has generated $6
Senators: It’s time to reclaim your relevance
The first was failing to convict him on impeachment charges for summoning the mob to attack the chamber on Jan. 6, 2021.
Reconciliation would auction 600 megahertz of federal spectrum
Cantwell raised national security concerns in a May 6 letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth regarding the GOP’s plan to include spectrum auction language in the budget reconciliation efforts.
As the polling wars rage, both parties should stop and listen
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer speaks during the Senate Democrats’ news conference in the Capitol on Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
GOP senator says he opposes Trump pick for US attorney in DC
The lawmakers pointed to a situation in which they say Martin, acting in the interim role, moved to dismiss charges against a Jan. 6 defendant he represented.
‘Skinny’ White House budget leaves some Senate Republicans hungry for more
That $119 billion increase, which includes $6 billion for the Energy Department’s nuclear programs, would come entirely through the "big, beautiful" budget reconciliation package Republicans have begun
Defense budget increase hinges on reconciliation success
For that agency, the budget plan includes $24 billion, the same as the enacted fiscal 2025 amount, plus $6 billion that is contingent on enactment of the reconciliation bill’s proposed amount for the agency
For Marie Gluesenkamp Pérez, politics is about meeting voters where they are
Herrera Beutler was one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and lost in 2022 in a top-two open primary to Gluesenkamp Pérez and Kent.Â
Democrats seek hearing on Ed Martin pick for US attorney in DC
The lawmakers pointed to a situation in which they say Martin, acting in the interim role, moved to dismiss charges against a Jan. 6 defendant he represented.
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
Simpson remembered as a giant of the Senate, literally
At 6 foot, 7 inches, he held the Senate record until it was broken by Luther Strange, an Alabama Republican who stood 6 foot, 9 inches. "What son of a bitch did that?"