House Republicans float a debt limit, spending pact deal — with themselves
House GOP leaders laid out a plan Friday to avert the upcoming debt cliff on their own next year, despite President-elect Donald Trump’s insistence that Congress handle it before he takes office. During a closed-door conference meeting Friday afternoon, House
Transition would be ‘restricted’ during a shutdown
Hours ahead of the expiration of government funding, the White House warned that a shutdown would disrupt the presidential transition process, hampering preparations for next month’s handoff to President-elect Donald Trump. “Transition activities will be restricted,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre
House GOP picks new funding plan that will need wide Democratic support
House Republicans voted in their closed-door conference meeting to pursue a funding plan that will require Democratic votes and strips out a debt limit measure President-elect Donald Trump is pushing, according to more than a dozen Republicans leaving the meeting.
Johnson lays out two spending paths in House GOP meeting
Speaker Mike Johnson laid out two potential paths to avert a government shutdown in a closed-door meeting with the House GOP Friday morning, according to a slide presented in the closed-door House GOP conference and shared with POLITICO. There's
Senators continue to wait for House lawmakers to ‘sort it themselves’ on spending
A week into the House’s chaotic attempt to pass a government funding deal, senators are signaling they're open to near anything — except moving on their own government-funding deal first. Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), a member of the Senate Appropriations