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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.
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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.
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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.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
news8000.com | Eric Bradner |Kristen Holmes |Alayna Treene |Lauren Fox
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
kesq.com | Sarah Ferris |Lauren Fox |Clare Foran
By Sarah Ferris, Lauren Fox and Clare Foran, CNN(CNN) - Donald Trump won't arrive back at the White House until January. But the president-elect will have fingerprints over every piece of the lame-duck session of Congress.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
abc12.com | Sarah Ferris |Annie Grayer |Lauren Fox
Republicans on Capitol Hill are laying the groundwork to push through an ambitious agenda with President-elect Donald Trump if they have total control of Washington next January – a rare GOP trifecta that party leaders believe is now within reach. And this time they'll be prepared to use it. Unlike Trump's surprise win in 2016, House and Senate GOP leaders have been preparing for months for a possible GOP sweep.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
kesq.com | Manu Raju |Ted Barrett |Lauren Fox
By Manu Raju, Ted Barrett and Lauren Fox, CNN(CNN) - Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell's potential successors have been crisscrossing the country, cozying up to former President Donald Trump and barnstorming key battleground states in the final days of the election to help their party win back the Senate - and help themselves, too. Sen.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
kesq.com | Betsy Klein |Lauren Fox |Ella Nilsen |Kayla Tausche
By Betsy Klein, Lauren Fox, Ella Nilsen and Kayla Tausche, CNN(CNN) - On the day President Joe Biden announced he would not seek reelection, he convened his senior team at the White House, asking for a plan to "run through the tape" in his final six months in office, implementing key laws and cementing foreign policy, chief of staff Jeff Zients told political appointees on a call this summer.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
localnews8.com | Clare Foran |Sarah Ferris |Lauren Fox |Haley Talbot
By Clare Foran, Sarah Ferris, Lauren Fox and Haley Talbot, CNNWashington (CNN) — Congress set up a chaotic, high-stakes fight over spending at the end of the year, after both chambers voted on Wednesday to avert a government shutdown. The stopgap spending bill, which will fund the government until December 20, will next be sent to President Joe Biden to be signed into law.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
aol.com | Clare Foran |Sarah Ferris |Lauren Fox |Haley Talbot
September 25, 2024 at 3:50 PM J. Scott Applewhite/APSpeaker Mike Johnson turned to Democrats on Wednesday to help pass a stopgap funding bill amid GOP defections, and the House voted to avert a government shutdown. The bill, which must now pass the Senate, will fund the government until December 20, setting up a chaotic, high-stakes fight over spending at the end of the year.
