Julie Tsirkin

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Scott Wong |Julie Tsirkin |Bridget Bowman |Ben Kamisar

Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet is running for governor of Colorado next year, according to two sources familiar with his plans. Bennet is expected to announce his campaign as soon as Friday and will look to succeed term-limited Democratic Gov. Jared Polis in a state that has trended towards his party in recent years. And he is the latest Senate Democrat looking to leave Washington, after three retirement announcements in recent weeks.

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Scott Wong |Julie Tsirkin |Kyle Stewart |Frank Thorp V

WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said House Republicans would try again Thursday to adopt the budget plan needed to jumpstart work on President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda, one day after conservatives threatened to sink it. Johnson appeared alongside Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., at a news conference before the vote and projected confidence, even though he had to postpone the vote the night before.

2 weeks ago | cnbc.com | Scott Wong |Julie Tsirkin |Kyle Stewart |Frank Thorp V

WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., muscled a revised budget blueprint needed to advance President Donald Trump's agenda through the House on Thursday, beating back a conservative rebellion that had threatened to sink the measure just one day earlier. The vote was 216-214, with just two Republicans — Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Victoria Spartz, R-Ind. — joining all Democrats in opposition. Trump had endorsed the budget plan, which the Senate adopted it last weekend on a narrow 51-48 vote.

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Scott Wong |Julie Tsirkin |Rebecca Kaplan |Kyle Stewart

WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Tuesday voted to block a bipartisan push to allow lawmakers who are new parents to vote remotely rather than in person, officially ending a GOP standoff over the issue that ground legislative business to a halt for the past week. After President Donald Trump intervened in the intraparty spat late last week, Rep.

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Sahil Kapur |Scott Wong |Melanie Zanona |Julie Tsirkin

WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is facing a growing rebellion from conservative hard-liners in the House as Republicans seek to take up a budget blueprint that was recently adopted by the Senate to pass President Donald Trump’s agenda. House GOP leaders are eyeing a vote this week on the measure, which would unlock the path for committees to craft a massive bill to cut taxes, boost immigration enforcement and defense spending and lift the debt limit without Democratic votes.