This afternoon, the House Committee on Ways and Means released Chairman Jason Smith’s amendment in the nature of a substitute (AINS) that will serve as the legislation to be marked up in Committee tomorrow at 2:30pm. Dubbed “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill,” it augments and, in some instances, modifies the provisions Ways and Means released […]

Congress returns from the two-week Easter Recess on Monday after having passed a unified Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Budget Resolution with reconciliation instructions, thus unlocking the expedited process for considering an extension of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) and other Republican policy priorities (e.g., Trump campaign tax pledges, border security, domestic energy production, […]

Tomorrow at 10:00 AM, the House Budget Committee is scheduled to markup Speaker Mike Johnson and Chairman Jodey Arrington’s proposed budget resolution. The relevant portion begins with Title II on page 34, whereby the resolution provides reconciliation instructions to eleven different House committees. Taken together, these instructions set the parameters for the “one, big beautiful […]

Good evening, After hearing from President Trump last evening, House Republicans huddled today in a series of conference-wide discussions and breakout sessions to attempt to coalesce around a reconciliation timeline and strategy. Leadership Reports Speaker Mike Johnson kicked off the leadership panel by continuing to exhort his colleagues to rally around the one-bill strategy, reiterating his belief […]

Now back at the White House, President Trump has signed over 20 executive actions from the Oval Office tonight. Among them are: A full pardon for approximately 1,500 January 6 defendants Various executive powers with respect to the southern border A realignment of the United States’ refugee program Protecting the United States from certain foreign terrorist […]

Earlier today, the Trump Administration released a “Day 1 Fact Sheet” outlining President Trump’s early executive actions upon taking office. A copy of the Fact Sheet has been posted on the White House’s website here. The President also appointed several dozen political officials to temporarily run federal agencies, boards, and commissions. Following his swearing-in and Capitol-related events, President Trump held […]

After a fraught day of closed-door House GOP discussions led by Speaker Johnson, late this afternoon Johnson released, and President-elect Trump swiftly announced his support for, a revised Continuing Resolution (the American Relief Act of 2025) that includes a two-year debt limit suspension while removing a panoply of items previously included in the CR released […]

Following a day of tumult the House will not be voting on the previously-posted Continuing Resolution (CR) this evening, leaving open what and when they may vote next. That decision follows a difficult day for House GOP leadership, which began with what appeared to be manageable pushback from the House Freedom Caucus, but which grew as the […]

Earlier this evening, House Republican Leadership posted the text of the final negotiated continuing resolution (CR), as well as a bill authored by Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) to offset the emergency disaster relief money included in the CR. The latter is a “messaging bill” that is unlikely to pass under suspension and possibly not under a rule (nor will […]