Ken Tran

6 days ago | news.bgov.com | Jack Fitzpatrick |Ken Tran

The White House is slow-walking plans to ask Congress to rescind previously enacted $9.3 billion in funds for the US Agency for International Development and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. But only a small group of Republican lawmakers seem to care. The ambivalent attitude by Republican lawmakers highlights the party’s deference to Trump, who has largely pursued a go-it-alone strategy on spending cuts.

6 days ago | news.bgov.com | Jack Fitzpatrick |Ken Tran |Maeve Sheehey |Chris Cioffi

Republicans seeking a bigger tax deduction for constituents in high-tax states need to make a specific offer and stop holding up President Donald Trump’s agenda, even if it risks the party’s control of the House, a GOP leadership member said Thursday. Rep. Kevin Hern (R-Okla.) invoked Ronald Reagan, Nancy Pelosi, and love of country as he urged Republicans to rally around a tax plan, in an exclusive Bloomberg Government roundtable on Thursday morning.

1 week ago | news.bgov.com | Maeve Sheehey |Ken Tran

Congressional Democrats scattered across the country over the past few weeks — but not necessarily to their own districts. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I.) and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) rallied in Idaho. Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy (D) and Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost (D) had a town hall in rural North Carolina. Texas Rep. Greg Casar (D) who leads the Congressional Progressive Caucus, appeared on the hustings in a GOP swing district outside of Denver.

1 week ago | news.bgov.com | Jack Fitzpatrick |Ken Tran

President Donald Trump is banking on Republicans slashing domestic funds and successfully shepherding a fraught tax-and-spending package through Congress, as he sends lawmakers a budget proposal focused heavily on military and border priorities. Trump released a fiscal 2026 spending proposal — called a “skinny budget” because it’s light on details — Friday morning, allowing Congress to start preliminary work to fund the government beyond Sept. 30.

1 week ago | news.bgov.com | Katherine Rizzo |Jack Fitzpatrick |Ken Tran |Olivia Gyapong

Trump Budget 1.0It’s not going to be full of details but what matters is that Congress will get a budget request from the White House today. Appropriators want to get going on hearings with department heads, a part of the fiscal 2026 process that can’t happen until there’s at least a skeleton of a formal request — or in the Capitol Hill shorthand, a “skinny budget” — with a fuller version sometime later.