Ken Tran

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.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Maeve Sheehey |Ken Tran

(Bloomberg Government) -- The head of President Donald Trump’s government efficiency effort, Elon Musk, is emerging as a messaging punching bag for Democrats as they pick up the pieces of their stinging defeat in last year’s elections and search for a winning message for 2026.

1 month ago | nz.news.yahoo.com | Maeve Sheehey |Ken Tran

(Bloomberg Government) -- The head of President Donald Trump’s government efficiency effort, Elon Musk, is emerging as a messaging punching bag for Democrats as they pick up the pieces of their stinging defeat in last year’s elections and search for a winning message for 2026.

1 month ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Ken Tran

House Republicans may delay a crucial vote on a budget resolution as a number of deficit hawks threaten to sink the framework in demand of deeper spending cuts. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told reporters Tuesday morning there “may be a vote tonight. There may not be,” marking a shift in tone from earlier in the morning when he said he planned to hold the vote on Tuesday evening. The House schedule had set it for 6 pm.

2 months ago | news.bgov.com | Ken Tran |Maeve Sheehey

House Republicans will leave their Miami retreat Wednesday with a better idea of what spending cuts they can secure through reconciliation without Democrats. But the most vocal fiscal hawks who could sink the plan opted to skip the gathering. Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), a member of the Freedom Caucus who didn’t attend the getaway, said in a post on X from his district that Republican leaders are “working to jam through massive deficits” while criticizing him and his fellow hardliners.