Democrats Plan Nationwide Blitz of Town Halls in Republican Districts
A series of events in all 50 states aims to capitalize on a recent warning from Republican leadership that its lawmakers should avoid such public forums.
It Is Happening Every Day, Every Where
A series of events in all 50 states aims to capitalize on a recent warning from Republican leadership that its lawmakers should avoid such public forums.
The stopgap measure the G.O.P. is pushing to avert a government shutdown omits billions of dollars in member-requested projects, another way in which Congress has ceded its power on federal spending.
On spending, oversight and other issues, Republican lawmakers have willingly ceded power traditionally reserved for Congress to the Trump White House.
The German luxury carmaker said its latest compact sedan solved problems that had kept people from buying electric vehicles.
Brad Schimel, a judge who is so supportive of the president that he dressed up as him for Halloween, is hoping to flip the Wisconsin Supreme Court for conservatives.
The top Senate Democrat said his members were not ready to provide the votes to allow the Republican-written stopgap spending measure to pass ahead of a March 14 midnight deadline.
Representative Keith Self of Texas insisted on calling Representative Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender member of Congress, “Mr. McBride,” and adjourned the session when challenged about it.
House G.O.P. leaders tucked the provision into a procedural measure needed to pass a government spending bill.
Republicans were pressing rank-and-file lawmakers to fall in line behind a stopgap measure that would mostly keep government funding at current levels through September.
A short-term spending bill, a 10-year budget plan and Musk’s cost-cutting team are all progressing at once.