Dems want answers on Billy Long’s tax credit work
Senate Democratic tax writers are demanding more details about former Rep. Billy Long's work promoting a troubled pandemic era tax credit for businesses as they consider his possible nomination to head the IRS. In a pair of letters to companies
Past Democratic presidential wannabes? Sign most Senate Republicans up.
Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. often talked like fairly conventional Democrats when they ran for that party’s presidential nomination. Senate Republicans are treating that past political history as water under the bridge. That’s not to suggest either nominee
Conservatives demand steep funding cuts as they fume over Johnson’s spending bill
In the latest sign of trouble for Speaker Mike Johnson’s spending bill, members of the Freedom Caucus, incensed over the package, are demanding a vote on steep funding cuts. The group laid out what it wants in an X post
Dems brace to bail out Johnson on stopgap spending package
House Democrats are once again likely to bail out Speaker Mike Johnson on a stopgap spending bill, as conservatives largely vow to oppose it on the floor. “I expect we’re going to pass the CR,” said Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro,
Lawmakers are primed to get a pay bump. Some aren’t happy about it.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are primed to get their first pay bump since 2009 in the new spending bill. Many of them aren’t happy about it. Members in competitive districts have long-feared political blowback for voting to give themselves a