The Latest on the Government Shutdown

A pair of competing government funding strategies are emerging as Congress brushes up against next Friday’s deadline. Specifically, the “four corners” leaders of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees are reportedly on the cusp of an agreement on topline spending figures for fiscal year (FY) 2025, a critical precursor to the development appropriations bills that […]

It was business as usual from President Donald Trump during last night’s record-length joint address to Congress as he sought to rally the “GOP trifecta” on his accomplishments over the course of his first couple of months back in office, as well as his legislative agenda. The president reiterated familiar promises and demands from the […]

The House will gavel in today for a pivotal vote on the House GOP budget resolution as leadership looks to move closer toward crafting and enacting a sweeping reconciliation package on tax, energy, border security, and more. House Republican leadership has been working overtime to shore up support for the budget resolution among lawmakers that […]

House lawmakers will gavel in for legislative business today as Republican leadership looks to adopt its budget resolution by tomorrow evening. While the House’s plan to pass “one big beautiful” reconciliation package has momentum over the Senate’s thanks to the president’s endorsement, GOP leadership still has work to do to so that its budget resolution […]

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) will bring the House GOP’s budget resolution to the floor next week after President Donald Trump endorsed the one-bill approach yesterday. While the House’s resolution passed in committee with the full support of Republicans on the panel, leadership will still need to work overtime to ensure full support on the floor […]

The Senate GOP’s budget resolution is on a glidepath toward adoption in the upper chamber, but President Donald Trump is not fully onboard with the two-bill approach. In a major win for House Republican leadership, the president took to his social media platform earlier today and called on the GOP to “kickstart” the reconciliation process using […]

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House leadership officially filed a three-month continuing resolution (CR) that would, among other things, keep the government funded until March 14, 2025. In addition to addressing several expiring programs, the 1,500+ page legislation also includes: Roughly $100 billion in disaster relief aid, including $29 billion for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Disaster Relief Fund; […]

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) reiterated this past weekend that Congress will not return to Washington early to pass a supplemental funding measure for disaster relief. While acknowledging that Congress will need to act to provide the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) with additional funds for recovery efforts, the Speaker has maintained that it will take […]

Congress is officially in “punt formation” on government funding as both chambers are set to pass the three-month continuing resolution (CR) during today’s session. The House will hold a final up or down vote on the CR under suspension of the rules around 5:30 PM EST this evening, and the underlying measure is expected to […]

Amid mounting disagreements on both sides of the aisle, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) postponed consideration of the six-month continuing resolution (CR) during yesterday’s session. House Republican leadership will now turn its attention to whipping support for the CR — which would fund the government to March 2025 and include language to restrict undocumented immigrants from […]

House Republican leadership is whipping support for a continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government funded into March of next year ahead of this afternoon’s vote series, but it looks as if these efforts are going to fall short. Several House Republicans have come out against Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) proposed stopgap strategy, which includes […]