Author: Rachel Schilke

The Supreme Court could upend the way Republican and Democratic parties raise money, with experts warning it could drastically alter the influence of big spending in upcoming elections. The high court announced last week that it would add a case to its docket challenging a decades-old rule from the Federal Election Commission limiting how much…

Intraparty squabbles over whether to raise the state and local tax cap revealed a harsh truth for Republicans: Just because there is a GOP trifecta does not mean all of its members agree on how to fulfill President Donald Trump’s agenda. The reconciliation fight over the last few months pitted SALT Republicans from California, New…

Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) will resign from the House at the end of this month, kickstarting House Republicans’ search for a new chairman on the powerful Homeland Security Committee. Green announced Friday, after the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed the House, that he would retire from Congress and alerted GOP leaders that it would…

The “big, beautiful bill” is on its way to President Donald Trump’s desk after passing the House on Thursday, the conclusion to months of intra-party, cross-chamber negotiations that exposed ideological differences within the GOP trifecta. The House passed the bill, 218 to 214, at 2:32 p.m. after a grueling House session that began around 9…

The House Rules Committee advanced the One Big Beautiful Bill Act early Wednesday morning after hours of debate, with a long day ahead for Republicans as they try to pass the legislation before their July 4 deadline. The committee approved a rule for the tax and spending legislation in a 7-6 vote, with two Republicans…

Omaha City Council Vice President Brinker Harding is running to replace retiring Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE), the first Republican to do so as the party scrambles to find someone to hold on to the swing district. Bacon, who has served in Congress since 2017, announced Monday that he would not seek reelection. He represents Nebraska‘s…

The House unanimously passed a resolution condemning the violence against Minnesota state lawmakers last week, after two lawmakers and their spouses were targeted and shot in what Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) called a “politically motivated” attack. The chamber adopted the resolution, with 424 members voting “yes,” on Wednesday evening. The resolution, led by Rep. Kelly Morrison (D-MN),…

EXCLUSIVE — A key agricultural coalition is launching another six-figure ad buy asking Republicans to keep a critical farming and manufacturing provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, one of several policy areas the GOP is stuck negotiating as it works to deliver a finished product to President Donald Trump by July 4. The…

The top congressional Democratic leaders congratulated state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani for his victory in New York‘s Democratic mayoral primary on Wednesday, but they stopped short of offering a full-throttle endorsement of the self-proclaimed socialist. Both Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) released statements minutes apart on Wednesday celebrating…

The race for the top Democratic position on the House Oversight Committee opened up old wounds within the Democratic coalition, revealing that the party is not yet ready to fully embrace its loudest voices on the Left. Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), dubbed a Democratic “star” on the Right for her headline-grabbing quotes and confrontations, came…