A handful of Republicans withholding support for a GOP budget resolution changed their minds after meeting with President Donald Trump on Tuesday, but not enough movement to secure passage in the House. Before the White House meeting, at least 30 House Republicans were standing firm against the Trump-backed budget resolution coming back from the Senate […]

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) accepted House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’s (D-NY) challenge to debate the House Republicans‘ budget resolution. On Tuesday, Jeffries formally requested a one-on-one debate on the House floor with Johnson, known as a colloquy. When a Fox News reporter asked him about the challenge, Johnson said he hadn’t heard about it […]

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the White House to restore the Associated Press‘s access to key presidential events, ruling the Trump administration violated the First Amendment by barring the outlet over its refusal to adopt the name Gulf of America, formerly the Gulf of Mexico. U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee to the D.C. Circuit, said the government […]

EXCLUSIVE — Since taking office three months ago, freshman Rep. Jeff Hurd (R-CO) has shied away from breaking with President Donald Trump, aside from condemning his Jan. 6 pardons. But that changed after Trump announced his sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs that would impose new duties on about 90 countries without any congressional approval. Hurd, who […]