Politics Jan 03 Mike Johnson reelected House speaker in dramatic first-round floor vote Republican Mike Johnson won reelection to the House speakership on a first ballot Friday, pushing past GOP hard-right holdouts and buoyed with a nod of support from President-elect Donald Trump.
Politics Dec 20 Senate confirms 235th federal judge under Biden’s presidency, beating Trump’s first-term tally Biden and Senate Democrats placed particular focus on adding women, minorities and public defenders to the judicial rank. About two-thirds of Biden's appointees are women and a solid majority of appointees are people of color.
Politics Dec 19 WATCH: House rejects Trump-backed stopgap funding bill, leaving next steps uncertain In a hastily convened evening vote punctuated by angry outbursts over the self-made crisis, the lawmakers failed to reach the two-thirds threshold needed for passage — but House Speaker Mike Johnson appeared determined to regroup, before Friday's midnight deadline.
Politics Dec 19 Government shutdown looms as Speaker Johnson struggles to meet Trump’s demands Trump said early Thursday that Johnson will "easily remain speaker" for the next Congress if he "acts decisively and tough" in coming up with a new plan to also increase the debt limit, a stunning request just before the Christmas…
Politics Dec 18 Congress nears funding deal with more than $100 billion in disaster aid, avoiding government shutdown Congressional leaders have unveiled legislation that will keep the federal government funded through March 14 and provide more than $100 billion in emergency aid to help states and local communities recover from Hurricanes Helene and Milton and other natural disasters.
Politics Dec 12 House Republicans pass bill to add 66 new federal judgeships, but White House says Biden would veto it The House has passed what was once a bipartisan effort to expand the number of federal district trial court judgeships across the country.
Politics Dec 11 WATCH: House approves $895B defense bill that raises military pay, bans coverage of trans care for children of service members The bill passed the House by a vote of 281-140 and will next move to the Senate, where lawmakers had sought a bigger boost in defense spending than the current measure allows.
Politics Dec 10 White House says Biden would veto bill expanding federal judiciary It's an abrupt reversal for legislation that the Senate passed unanimously in August. But the GOP-led House waited until after the election to act on the measure, which spreads out the establishment of the new district judgeships over about a…
Politics Dec 05 Musk and Ramaswamy visit Capitol Hill to discuss Trump’s plans to slash federal government Trump tapped Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to come up with ways for firing federal workers, cutting government programs and slashing federal regulations.
Politics Nov 21 WATCH: Senators react to Matt Gaetz withdrawing from attorney general nomination While few Republican senators have publicly criticized any of Donald Trump's nominees, it became clear after Gaetz's withdrawal that many had been harboring private concerns about him.