Michael Jones

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Democrats warn PEPFAR cuts threaten global HIV progress

2 weeks ago | onceuponahill.com | Michael Jones

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) called proposed GOP cuts to PEPFAR “inhumane,” warning they would endanger global HIV/AIDS progress. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images👋🏾 Hi, hey, hello! Welcome to the paid-only bonus Sunday edition of Congress Nerd, Once Upon a Hill’s flagship newsletter previewing the biggest stories in Congress, national…
Black Caucus weighs strategy, unity and generational change in Oversight race

3 weeks ago | onceuponahill.com | Michael Jones

👋🏾 Hi, hey, hello! In this week’s edition: The latest on the race to be the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee from inside the influential Congressional Black Caucus, which has two of its members in the running.
Why the GOP’s megabill isn’t a done deal yet

3 weeks ago | couriernewsroom.com | Michael Jones

By Michael JonesWith the Senate returning to Washington this evening after a weeklong Memorial Day recess, the chamber’s Republican majority is now on the clock to do what their House counterparts did before the break: Pass a sprawling tax, immigration, and energy package that delivers the bulk of President Trump’s legislative agenda. Senate Democrats are clear-eyed. They know they can’t block the GOP’s megabill outright.
Who will replace Gerry Connolly? Inside the race to lead House Oversight Democrats

3 weeks ago | onceuponahill.com | Michael Jones

The late Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) speaks during a House Oversight Committee hearing while serving as the panel’s ranking member. Photo by Nathan Posner/Getty Images👋🏾 Hi, hey, hello! Welcome to the Sunday bonus edition of Congress Nerd, Once Upon a Hill’s flagship weekly newsletter, where I break down the biggest stories in legislative politics, fe…
From quiet member to Democratic messenger on SNAP and social policy

4 weeks ago | onceuponahill.com | Michael Jones

○ ● ●Shontel Brown can’t stand cold cuts. The Ohio Democrat isn’t a fan of pancakes for dinner either. And the mere sight of a sandwich made with government cheese still takes the 49-year-old back to nights when her family had to stretch every dollar and relied on food stamps while managing her childhood epilepsy.
House GOP passes Trump’s megabill after overnight procedural drama

1 month ago | onceuponahill.com | Michael Jones

It took a early-dawn vote, weeks of intraparty warfare, a couple of rounds of eleventh-hour arm-twisting from President Donald Trump and plenty of intestinal fortitude, but Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) finally muscled the GOP’s tax, energy and immigration megabill through the House just before 7 a.m. this morning.
The four letters that could sink the GOP’s megabill

1 month ago | couriernewsroom.com | Michael Jones

By Michael JonesMoments after the House Ways and Means Committee wrapped a 17-hour markup of its portion of the GOP megabill—legislation meant to enshrine President Trump’s second-term agenda—Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) posted a photo of then-candidate Trump waving from a McDonald’s drive-thru window. Presumably, it was a corny attempt to own the libs. But Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.), one of Smith’s GOP colleagues, didn’t find it amusing.
Grace Meng calls Biden book backlash a “distraction,” urges Democrats to focus on GOP threats

1 month ago | onceuponahill.com | Michael Jones

👋🏾 Hi, hey, hello! Hi, hey, hello! Welcome to the Sunday bonus edition of Congress Nerd, Once Upon a Hill’s flagship weekly newsletter, where I break down the biggest stories in legislative politics, federal policy and the Democratic Party—all through my sharp lens of race, gender and power.
Johnson suffers setback as House conservatives stall GOP megabill

1 month ago | onceuponahill.com | Michael Jones

“Godspeed and safe travels,” House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) told his panel Friday afternoon. “I do not anticipate us coming back today.”His words came moments after the committee failed to advance the GOP’s sweeping tax, energy, and immigration bill—a centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s second-term agenda.
House Democrats shift messaging from ‘safety net’ to ‘basic needs’ to reach swing voters

1 month ago | onceuponahill.com | Michael Jones

👋🏾 Hi, hey, hello! I just returned from a Q&A with several other Black congressional reporters, where top members of the Congressional Black Caucus—including Chair Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.), First Vice Chair Troy Carter (D-La.), Whip Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.), and Reps. Jennifer McClellan (D-Va.) and Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas)—expressed no regrets about supporting former President Joe Biden after the shaky debate performance last summer that led him to ultimately not seek reelection.