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 […]