Daniella Diaz

1 week ago | notus.org | Daniella Diaz |Helen Huiskes

As House Republicans repeatedly pressure senators to change a reconciliation bill House lawmakers already had a chance to shape, some Republicans in the upper chamber are getting frustrated. “I think it’s kind of a hollow argument,” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, a member of Republican leadership, told NOTUS. “They’re entitled to their opinion.

1 week ago | notus.org | Riley Rogerson |Helen Huiskes |Daniella Diaz

As the shootings in Minnesota rattle Capitol Hill, lawmakers are scrambling to disrupt what they see as a long and escalating pattern of political violence — and grappling with the growing fear they might not be able to stop it. “It is so unfortunate what happened in Minnesota, it raises this dark reality that we are all one vote away from losing our lives,” Rep. Norma Torres, a member of the House Administration Committee, which has oversight of member security, told NOTUS.

2 weeks ago | notus.org | Riley Rogerson |Daniella Diaz |Reese Gorman |John Seward

When President Donald Trump celebrated Israel’s strike against Iran on social media Friday, it became the latest example of how lawmakers from the two parties can have wildly different interpretations of the president’s same words. On Friday morning, hours after Israel struck Iran, Trump suggested in a social media post that the strike was a function of Iran failing to make a deal with the United States during recent nuclear talks. “I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal.

2 weeks ago | notus.org | Daniella Diaz |Riley Rogerson

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is endorsing Rep. Robert Garcia for the top spot on the Oversight Committee, handing Garcia an influential bloc of Democrats as he races to clinch the spot against three of his colleagues. Garcia is the sole Latino candidate running for the ranking member spot and was expected to win the endorsement, but the 42 Democrats in the CHC handed Garcia a momentum boost in a race that, so far, has not had a clear front-runner. Garcia is running against Rep.

2 weeks ago | notus.org | Riley Rogerson |Daniella Diaz

House Republican leaders are charging ahead with a rescission bill on Thursday that would codify $9.4 billion in controversial cuts made by the Department of Government Efficiency, counting on vulnerable Republicans worried about associating themselves with the unpopular DOGE agency to simply cave. Early indications are that these more moderate Republicans will do just that. Speaker Mike Johnson’s whip operation continues to make progress, moving members toward supporting the package.