President-elect Donald Trump said on Dec. 31 that he believes House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will secure a second term in the job despite opposition from some Republican lawmakers ahead of another contentious speakership race. Trump made the comments while speaking to reporters outside of a New Year’s Eve party at Mar-a-Lago in Florida. The […]
On Jan. 14, the United States will reach its debt ceiling. President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he wants Congress to suspend the cap. Before March, Congress will have to come to an agreement to fund the government for the remainder of the year.
President-elect Donald Trump has renewed his calls for the 118th Congress to vote on the debt ceiling before the Biden administration ends on Jan. 20, 2025. The House on Dec. 20 and the Senate on Dec. 21 avoided addressing the impending debt ceiling limit when passing a stopgap funding package to avert a government shutdown. […]
President-elect Donald Trump has given a full endorsement to embattled House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), potentially hedging off a divisive fight later this week. “Speaker Mike Johnson is a good, hard-working, religious man. He will do the right thing, and we will continue to WIN. Mike has my Complete & Total Endorsement. MAGA!!!” Trump wrote […]
WASHINGTON–When the House of Representatives returns on Jan. 3, 2025, to begin the 119th Congress for a two-year term, Republicans will start out with a narrow majority. Though the party won 220 seats in the House, giving them a three-seat margin over the majority mark of 218, this number is set to decline in January. […]
The House Ethics Committee unveiled its report into the past conduct of former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) on Dec. 23 after he filed a last-minute lawsuit in federal court to block its release. “The Committee determined there is substantial evidence that Representative Gaetz violated House Rules and other standards of conduct prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, […]
President Joe Biden signed legislation on Dec. 21 to avert a government shutdown just ahead of Christmas, concluding a week of political turmoil in Washington. The White House announced on the morning of Dec. 21 that Biden had signed into law the American Relief Act (H.R. 10545), which funds the government at current levels through […]
WASHINGTON—Both chambers of Congress on Dec. 21 passed a last-minute funding package that would extend government funding to March 14, sending it to President Joe Biden’s desk. The legislation, dubbed the American Relief Act, passed the Senate in a late-night 85-11 vote that wrapped up not long after the midnight shutdown deadline on Saturday. The […]
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Senate on Dec. 21 passed a bipartisan bill that will enable government employees, their survivors, and disabled persons to receive more money from the Social Security program, which will cost up to $195 billion over 10 years. The Social Security Fairness Act, a bill sponsored by retiring Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.), will repeal […]
What does the disagreement surrounding the government funding bill indicate for President-elect Donald Trump’s influence in Congress with his incoming presidency? Republican strategist Nick Adams argues that the GOP needs to rally behind the Trump–Vance agenda, while Democratic strategist Josh Lafazan warns that Republicans have little room for error in their governance, with the 2026 […]
Parker Sheppard, research fellow at The Heritage Foundation, discussed with NTD the government funding fiasco in Congress, the Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, and the debt ceiling’s role in balancing the budget.
While Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continued his tour of Capitol Hill in a quest to gain backing from lawmakers, a group of Republican senators launched a new caucus to support the objectives of President-elect Donald Trump and his pick to head the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The Congressional Make America Healthy Again […]
WASHINGTON—The House on Dec. 19 voted down a pared-down, Trump-backed plan to fund the government with just more than 24 hours until a government shutdown begins. In a 235–174 vote, lawmakers rejected the proposal. The group voting against the bill included all but two Democrats and a slate of conservative Republicans. The bill, which advanced […]
With less than three days until government funding expires, House Republicans have shown their discontent with the leadership’s stopgap bill. The U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear TikTok’s challenge to a looming January ban, as top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell is calling on the high court to reject the appeal. The Federal Reserve on Wednesday […]
Though they have expressed alignment with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on issues like ending corporate capture of health agencies and removing chemicals from America’s food supply, some Republican lawmakers have expressed displeasure over the Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary nominee’s stances on abortion and vaccines. On Dec. 17, Kennedy met with multiple Republican senators […]
Despite cooling inflation, consumer sentiment is still low as its impact continues to weigh on households. Vance Ginn, president of Ginn Economic Consulting and former chief economist of the Office of Management and Budget, spoke to NTD about the future of the American economy in the next four years.
Over 120 House Democrats are calling on President Joe Biden to conclude the process for adding the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the U.S. Constitution. The push, spearheaded by outgoing Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), wants the lame duck president to urge the national archivist to treat the ERA—an amendment from […]
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is looking to crack down on conflicts of interest in the health care sector. Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced legislation on Dec. 11 that would force health insurers and the middlemen that negotiate drug prices to divest their pharmacy businesses. Pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, serve […]
The House passed a bill on Dec. 10 to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to form a new working group within the department to track national security threats posed by the People’s Republic of China and its ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Dubbed the “Strategic Homeland Intelligence and Enforcement Legislation to Defend Against […]
