Author: David Sivak and Ramsey Touchberry

Senate fiscal hawks are making a steep set of demands in negotiations over the debt ceiling, driving an even harder bargain than the House rabble-rousers who won $2 trillion in cuts. Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) criticized the House framework, endorsed by the conservative Freedom Caucus, as “anemic,” while his Senate allies have named everything from…

Republicans will be searching for a breakthrough when they travel to the White House on Tuesday to negotiate President Donald Trump‘s sweeping second-term agenda. Congress has just three weeks to meet House Speaker Mike Johnson‘s (R-LA) self-imposed deadline to approve a framework that joins tax reform with Trump’s priorities on the border, defense, and energy.…

Democrats will face the biggest test of their early resistance to President Donald Trump this week as Republicans dare them to vote for a government shutdown. Senior Democrats reacted angrily to a spending patch Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) released over the weekend that would fund the government through September. The measure, crafted ahead of a…