Lauren Fox

2 weeks ago | channel3000.com | Sarah Ferris |Haley Talbot |Veronica Stracqualursi |Lauren Fox

Washington (CNN) — Speaker Mike Johnson delivered a major win for President Donald Trump early Thursday morning, quashing a conservative rebellion and driving a deeply divided House GOP to pass a bill that many of them were still pushing fiercely to change. House Republicans narrowly passed the president’s sweeping tax and spending cuts package by the speaker’s ambitious Memorial Day deadline, notching a victory for both Johnson and Trump after the bill had been mired in chaos just days earlier.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Manu Raju |Lauren Fox |Sarah Ferris

Key GOP conservatives remain opposed to approving President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending bill in the House this week – and even Trump himself may not be able to change their minds. On the eve of Trump’s visit to Capitol Hill, multiple members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus told CNN they’re still in talks with Speaker Mike Johnson about tweaking the legislation. And unlike Johnson, they see no reason to rush it to the floor this week.

Jan 9, 2025 | abc12.com | Clare Foran |Lauren Fox |Ted Barrett

A significant number of Senate Democrats voted with Republicans on Thursday to advance a GOP-led bill to require the detention of undocumented migrants charged with certain crimes – a key step that puts the legislation on the verge of passage. The bill steadily picked up support from Senate Democrats, including from battleground states where President-elect Donald Trump won last fall, after passing out of the House earlier in the week. The vote was 84 to 9.

Nov 24, 2024 | kesq.com | Lauren Fox |Clare Foran

By Lauren Fox and Clare Foran, CNN(CNN) - Republicans avoided a confirmation firestorm when former Rep. Matt Gaetz withdrew from consideration as attorney general, but lawmakers on Capitol Hill are already bracing for how they'll navigate the next slew of unorthodox Trump picks - and they have warned the president-elect's choice to lead the Pentagon, who faces controversy over his past comments and history, that the confirmation process is a long and invasive process.

Nov 21, 2024 | channel3000.com | Eric Bradner |Kristen Holmes |Alayna Treene |Lauren Fox

(CNN) — When Vice President-elect JD Vance and Matt Gaetz left the Capitol Hill room where they’d spent Wednesday trying to convince GOP senators to confirm the former Florida congressman as attorney general, Vance told reporters those meetings “went great.”But on Thursday morning, President-elect Donald Trump called Gaetz with bad news: He did not have the votes in the Senate to win confirmation, Trump told Gaetz, according to a source with direct knowledge of the call.