Jack Fitzpatrick
Reporter, Bloomberg Government at Bloomberg News
Bloomberg @BGOV reporter covering Congress. Read my Budget Briefing newsletter every morning they're in session. [email protected]
Articles
-
1 week ago |
news.bloomberglaw.com | Jack Fitzpatrick
Congressional Republicans face a unique challenge in enacting President Donald Trump’s pledge to eliminate taxes on Social Security income, a popular promise among some higher-income retirees. Republicans aim to pass a bill to extend and expand Trump’s 2017 tax cuts through a budgetary procedure that allows lawmakers to bypass the Senate filibuster. The House took a step Thursday in that direction by approving the same budget framework as the Senate already had.
-
2 weeks ago |
news.bloombergtax.com | Ian K. Kullgren |Ken Tran |Jack Fitzpatrick
President Donald Trump met with House Republican leaders and budget hawks Tuesday at the White House, once again leaving Democrats on the sidelines of the high-stakes negotiations. Trump met with GOP budget holdouts and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) in an effort to push the Senate-passed budget framework across the finish line. He didn’t extend the same invitation to Democrats — underscoring how he’s focused on a single-party strategy despite Republicans’ thin majority in the House.
-
2 weeks ago |
news.bloombergtax.com | Ian K. Kullgren |Ken Tran |Jack Fitzpatrick
President Donald Trump met with House Republican leaders and budget hawks Tuesday at the White House, once again leaving Democrats on the sidelines of the high-stakes negotiations. Trump met with GOP budget holdouts and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) in an effort to push the Senate-passed budget framework across the finish line. He didn’t extend the same invitation to Democrats — underscoring how he’s focused on a single-party strategy despite Republicans’ thin majority in the House.
-
2 weeks ago |
news.bgov.com | Jack Fitzpatrick
Rep. Mike Levin first learned a Social Security office in his district was slated for closure because it was on the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency website in February. Since then, the California Democrat has struggled to get answers about the plan. Republican allies of the Trump administration tell a different story. In some cases, they got DOGE to drop plans to close federal facilities in their districts.
-
2 weeks ago |
news.bloombergtax.com | Ken Tran |Jack Fitzpatrick
Senate Republicans adopted a new budget plan to pave the way for a sweeping tax bill early Saturday morning. But lawmakers are far from the finish line to enact President Donald Trump’s agenda, as House Republicans raise concerns ahead of a vote next week.
Try JournoFinder For Free
Search and contact over 1M+ journalist profiles, browse 100M+ articles, and unlock powerful PR tools.
Start Your 7-Day Free Trial →X (formerly Twitter)
- Followers
- 5K
- Tweets
- 15K
- DMs Open
- Yes
RT @RichardRubinDC: Arrington, in response to a good @jackfitzdc question, says he expects the House bill to have a debt limit increase clo…
RT @Alex_Roarty: SPOTTED: Speaker Johnson, on his phone and checking out the Drudge Report during Trump’s speech last night. The website’s…
RT @reesejgorman: Rep. Victoria Spartz — who famously flipped her vote on the House budget — tells me she “didn’t flip” her vote on the fir…