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1 month ago | 
nbcnews.com | Scott Wong |Melanie Zanona |Sahil Kapur |Kyle Stewart
May 21, 2025, 10:17 AM EDTWASHINGTON — House Republican leaders are racing to drag a sweeping bill for President Donald Trump's agenda across the finish line even as some holdouts are dug in and key issues remain unresolved. The House Rules Committee begun debating the multitrillion-dollar domestic policy package shortly after 1 a.m. ET Wednesday, the final step before it heads to the full chamber.
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1 month ago | 
cnbc.com | Sahil Kapur |Scott Wong |Kyle Stewart |Syedah Asghar
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., stops outside the House chamber to speak to reporters about the ongoining reconciliation budget negotiations in the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, May 15, 2025. Bill Clark | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty ImagesWASHINGTON — The House Budget Committee advanced President Donald Trump's multitrillion-dollar domestic policy package Sunday night, two days after a group of conservatives voted to reject it.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Nnamdi Egwuonwu |Kyle Stewart |Alexandra Marquez
6 hours agoIf you thought Elon Musk was really trying to cut costs, you weren’t in on the joke. In November, when Donald Trump first announced his plan to place Elon Musk in charge of a new Department of Government Efficiency, the idea was widely written off as a joke. Then Trump took office, and DOGE began …
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2 months ago | 
flipboard.com | David K. Li |Kyle Stewart
3 hours agoVideo captured by the White House shows Donald Trump bragging that friend and investor Charles Schwab made two billion dollars from the current stock market chaos. In a video posted to X Wednesday (9 April), the president introduced NASCAR drivers to the founder and chairman of Charles Schwab Corporation, a multinational financial services company. “It’s not just a company, it’s actually an individual,” Trump told the racing drivers.
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2 months ago | 
cnbc.com | Scott Wong |Julie Tsirkin |Kyle Stewart |Frank Thorp
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.
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Mar 11, 2025 | 
cnbc.com | Scott Wong |Kyle Stewart |Sahil Kapur
The Republican-led House voted Tuesday to pass a six-month funding bill that would prevent a government shutdown at the end of the week, overcoming fierce Democratic objections. The vote was 217-213, with all Republicans but Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky supporting the continuing resolution. One Democrat voted for it. The measure now heads to the Senate, where its fate is uncertain. Republicans control 53 seats, and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has made clear he's firmly against it.
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Mar 8, 2025 | 
telemundosanantonio.com | Scott Wong |Kyle Stewart
WASHINGTON — El presidente de la Cámara de Representantes, Mike Johnson, republicano por Luisiana, dio a conocer el sábado un proyecto de ley de financiación provisional que evitaría un cierre a fines de la próxima semana y mantendría al gobierno funcionando hasta fines de septiembre. Johnson ha dicho que llevará el proyecto de ley de financiación al pleno para su votación a principios de la próxima semana, probablemente el martes, antes de que se acabe el dinero el viernes por la noche.
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
telemundopr.com | Oliver Lara |Kyle Stewart |Scott Wong
HOUSTON - La Cámara de Representantes de Estados Unidos votó a favor de censurar al congresista demócrata de Texas, Al Green, tras su protesta durante el discurso del presidente Donald Trump ante el Congreso a principios de esta semana. La votación fue 224-198, con 10 demócratas que se unieron a todos los republicanos para votar a favor de la resolución de censura. Green votó presente. Durante la votación, Green se sentó solo en el pasillo central.
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
nbcnewyork.com | Kyle Stewart |Scott Wong
The Republican-controlled House on Thursday voted to censure Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, for disrupting President Donald Trump’s address to Congress on Tuesday. The vote was 224-198, with 10 Democrats joining all Republicans in voting in favor of the censure resolution. Green voted present. As the vote proceeded, Green sat by himself along the center aisle. Following the vote, Green will need to stand in the well of the House chamber while Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., reads the censure resolution to him.
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
cnbc.com | Sahil Kapur |Kyle Stewart
WASHINGTON — House Republicans released a budget resolution Wednesday that calls for cutting taxes by up to $4.5 trillion and sets a goal of slashing federal spending by $2 trillion. The blueprint comes one day before the House Budget Committee is scheduled to consider it. If it's approved by the panel and the full House chamber, the Republicans can get started on crafting a massive party-line bill to pass President Donald Trump's agenda.
