Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell suggested Wednesday Congress will pass a short-term spending resolution to avoid a government shutdown.  Lawmakers in the upper chamber are slated to return to Washington from their summer recess Tuesday and will have to hustle to either advance a dozen federal spending measures before the end of the month or […]

House Republicans are eyeing ways to target the investigations into former President Donald Trump, with at least one lawmaker hoping to use the annual appropriations process to defund prosecutions when Congress returns to Washington next month.  Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., announced Monday he would introduce a pair of amendments to prohibit funding from being used for […]

The House Freedom Caucus said Monday its members will vote against any “clean” short-term spending bill, putting the squeeze on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to keep the government open before the fiscal year ends Sept. 30. The conservative group said it would oppose any spending measure that fails to address security at the southern border, the weaponization […]

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Wednesday railed against the recent indictments of former President Donald Trump for his efforts to challenge the 2020 election, and accused prosecutors of being motivated by political bias. “He’s being prosecuted in a way to make challenging an election a crime just for him,” Graham said.  “You can claim you were cheated if […]

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, flocked to former President Donald Trump’s side in the wake of his latest indictment in Georgia over his questioning of 2020 election results in the state.  “Justice should be blind, but Biden has weaponized government against his leading political opponent to interfere in the 2024 election,” McCarthy wrote in a […]