Medicaid cuts, a potential $4.6 trillion asterisk, a House-Senate divide and a major debt ceiling question loom over Speaker Johnson's push to pass the bill by the Easter recess.
The Senate minority leader responded to criticism from within his party about his handling of a GOP government funding bill and accused Trump of triggering a constitutional crisis.
Schumer said during an interview with "Meet the Press" that "democracy is at risk" following Trump’s attacks on the judiciary and calls to impeach a judge who ruled against him.
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Speaker Johnson is seeking to pass a bill with GOP votes alone. The government will shut down one week from today unless the House and Senate can agree on a funding package.
The House GOP has ordered the Energy and Commerce Committee, which oversees Medicare and Medicaid funding, to cut $880 billion in a bill to advance Trump's agenda.
Trump defended his tariffs, bashed "wokeness" and outlined his tax agenda as Democrats heckled him, while some in the party chose between audible and silent protests.
Republicans are trying to keep the national spotlight on the issue after Trump and some of the party's down-ballot candidates ran on it in the 2024 election.
Trump and congressional leaders have lost hope in a full government funding deal and pivoted toward a stopgap bill for the rest of the fiscal year. Even that is proving difficult.
GOP leaders argue that extending Trump’s expiring 2017 tax cuts shouldn’t be treated as costing any money. Democrats compare the tactic to nuking the 60-vote filibuster rule.
Budget experts say Trump’s tax and spending priorities would increase red ink, even as he boasts of balancing the budget. “I don’t think their rhetoric matches reality,” says one.
Out of Senate leadership and serving likely his last term, Mitch McConnell has often found himself on an island among Republicans in opposition to Trump.
From reducing NIH funding to slashing USAID's food program to imposing new tariffs, GOP lawmakers are beginning to speak out — carefully — against some of Trump's actions.
The conflict over strategy comes as top House Republicans met Thursday with Trump, who has indicated a preference for a one-bill approach but largely steered clear of the dispute.
Trump's latest idea has renewed Democratic criticism of pro-Palestinian activists who encouraged voters not to back Biden or Harris in the presidential election.