Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, on Tuesday said there should be no Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) amnesty deal contained within the government funding bill coming up in January.
President Donald Trump and congressional GOP leadership will put their governance and deal-making skills to the test in January when a nasty spending battle likely to include some form of major immigration policy change comes to fruition.
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) is planning to slip amnesty for nearly 800,000 illegal aliens living in the United States into a spending bill, according to House Republicans.
Even if the House passes a clean Harvey relief bill the Senate could return it with debt ceiling increase attached
Congress already faces a daunting legislative session when it returns to Washington on Tuesday. But the massive destruction left in the wake of Tropical Storm Harvey in Texas and Louisiana adds even more urgency — and fiscal maneuvering — as lawmakers craft a spending bill to keep the federal government operating.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, House colleagues, and some senators are calling on President Trump to preserve DACA for now.
Congress is already facing a massive legislative calendar when it returns to Washington: a spending bill to fund the government, dealing with the debt ceiling, the fate of Obamacare, and tax reform, the devastation caused by Tropical Storm Harvey in Texas will be added to the “To Do” list.
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) is signaling that members of the House Freedom Caucus, which he chairs, are willing to pass a Continuing Resolution to temporarily fund the federal government and avoid a government shutdown, even if it does not include funding for a wall on the U.S. southern border.
Meadows tells Breitbart News that the future of the Republican Party is at stake as Congress reconvenes in September
Congress will face a daunting legislative session when it returns from August recess, including funding for the government and the wall
High stakes battles on nearly every facet of American government and President Donald J. Trump’s agenda come to a head in September, from the debt ceiling to government funding bills to healthcare and tax reform.
The influential American Conservative Union called out the House of Representatives for asking members to vote on a 1,600 page appropriations bill, H.R. 244, only two days after introducing it.
Tuesday on his nationally syndicated radio program, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh interviewed Vice President Mike Pence about the spending bill expected to be passed by Congress and sent to President Donald Trump to be signed into law.
Two top Trump Administration officials took to the White House press briefing podium on Tuesday to push back against Democrats spiking the football on the new spending bill and criticism that the bill doesn’t fund the new border wall that was promised during the President’s election campaign.
Tuesday on CNN’s “At This Hour,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said he believed the congressional Democrats “cleaned our clock” in the proposed $1 trillion-plus government spending bill. Graham said, “I don’t know if I’m going to vote for the bill
Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) touted the controversial spending bill for fiscal year 2017 expected to pass Congress and be signed into law by President Donald Trump. The legislation has been criticized by some Trump allies
Good negotiators are guided always by this question: What, if any, is the ‘best alternative to no agreement?’ Sometimes, a negotiator walks away because he believes that the best possible agreement with the other side is worse than no agreement.
“Build the Wall,” chanted Trump 100 Days rally-goers in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania this weekend, but on Monday questions persisted about the lack of border wall funding in Congress’s new spending bill, leaving it unclear when exactly a wall along the U.S. southern border will be built.
Monday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) downplayed the possibility of a government shutdown as the deadline to pass a measure to fund the federal government approaches. Cole told host Joe Scarborough with the 60-vote rule in the
The House approved a $1.1 trillion spending bill Friday morning with a majority of Democratic votes.
The House passed legislation on Friday to prevent a government shutdown. The continuing resolution will give lawmakers an extension until the middle of next week to pass the appropriations spending bill.
Several members of Congress are using the omnibus bill to stop the Department of Justice from delivering corporate donations to left-wing activist groups.
The stories of administrative abuse from the IRS, the U.S. Attorney General, and the EPA are well known. Now, HUD is continuing the Obama Administration’s trend of executive overreach with its new Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing regulation—an oxymoronic idea that only a bureaucrat could love. This ill-conceived rule aims to diversify our nation’s neighborhoods by homogenizing all their differences.
Several congressional aides have confirmed to Breitbart News that a rumor of a temporary extension until after Christmas is floating around Congress.
House Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republican leaders in Congress are putting the final touches on a massive omnibus spending bill that will fund the federal government until after the presidential election.
Congress should use the power of the purse to ensure that the refugee program cannot be allowed to act as a “Trojan Horse” threat to national security, according to Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX) and 73 of his House colleagues.
Senate Republicans are planning to slip a provision into the omnibus spending bill which will allow political parties to spend more money on candidates, according to Politico.
