Politics · 115th Congress
Budget Deal Facing Senate Slowdown, House Objections
“I think we will get this done. I feel good about it,” Ryan said Thursday morning on the Hugh Hewitt radio show.
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“I think we will get this done. I feel good about it,” Ryan said Thursday morning on the Hugh Hewitt radio show.
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi held the House floor for eight hours Wednesday to make it clear that she wouldn’t support the deal without a commitment from Speaker Paul D.
“I never thought — or I guess I’m surprised that Paul Ryan with his focus in the past on fiscal discipline was going to go along with this kind of increase,” said Ohio Rep.
“Without a commitment from Speaker Ryan comparable to the commitment from Leader McConnell, this package does not have my support.”
corners of congressional leadership are expected to announce a sweeping budget deal that could increase the sequestration spending caps by nearly $300 billion over two years, extend the debt ceiling without
I think most people agree that the filibuster wasn’t designed for this purpose but rather to give voice to the minority party’s legitimate views, with an emphasis on legitimate.
“I thought it was crazy,” one adviser said, noting that Romney could already go on any Sunday talk show whenever he wanted without being a senator.
Without borders we don’t have a country. So would I would shut it down over this issue? Yes.
“In my state, the CR is — we’ve got one of the highest unemployment rates in the country — is literally, ‘Just please keep setting us on fire without any fire trucks.’
Ketchum later said she understands how withholding works and knows this may not be the final result in the tax cut for her, but was pleased nonetheless. “I answered it honestly,” she told CNN.
“I think we’re on the way to getting an agreement and getting it very soon,” McConnell said.
“I don’t know that I’m optimistic that welfare reform is going to get done,” House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows said before the retreat.
It’s very selfish,” he said. “They were like death and un-American. Someone said … treasonous.. Yeah, why not? They certainly didn’t seem to love our country very much.”
“I thought it has been the right move for some time,” RSC Chairman Mark Walker said after leaders announced the plan during a Monday evening conference meeting.
President Donald Trump and his top White House aides are said to favor releasing the memo as early as Friday, without any changes, despite strong objections by the Justice Department and the FBI.
Without their support, a government shutdown in a week is a real possibility.
James Lankford said of a DACA compromise among Republicans. “We won’t have a single Republican position.”
Democratic members and some former national security officials have said Republicans’ real aim in releasing the memo is to undermine the Justice Department’s Russia election meddling probe being led
“Very vulnerable people will lose coverage, including parents, and I expect children to also be harmed by these policies.”
FBI Director Christopher Wray and congressional Democrats oppose making the memo public, arguing that it cherry-picks information without context or other facts, and could undermine national security.