While House Republicans continue their internal discussions in an effort to unify on a one-bill reconciliation strategy, Senate Republicans are in parallel working on the first of what would be a two-budget reconciliation approach. Senator Graham just released a draft skinny budget resolution to be marked up Wednesday of next week.  In contrast to the House GOP, […]

While the flurry of activity in Washington has been primarily confined to the Executive Branch and the President’s executive orders, cabinet nominees, and the DOGE, Congress continues to spin its wheels on a path forward with reconciliation, with both House and Senate Republicans making their respective cases to the President directly today and over the […]

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 […]

During a meeting of the House GOP Conference this past weekend, senior representatives speaking for President-elect Trump and the House GOP Leadership jointly declared their intention to pass one single reconciliation bill to encompass border security, expiring tax cuts, energy production, and possibly an increase in the debt limit and defense spending, paired with mandatory […]

As has been the case for the last two years (and frankly, the last 14), the 118th Congress closed out its legislative session with a high degree of drama prior to passing a short-term funding bill just after the Friday midnight deadline. The House first cleared the measure by a vote of 366-34-1, followed by the Senate […]

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 […]