Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., conducts a news conference in the Capitol on March 6, 2025. Senate Democrats must decide if they want to vote against a spending extension and trigger a partial government shutdown. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll […]
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President-elect Donald Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency isn’t really a federal department, but it promises to take a meat ax to federal spending and regulations. CQ Roll Call’s Peter Cohn and David Lerman assess what the outside agency can
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Lawmakers are scheduled to return to Washington after the elections with a heap of unfinished business and little time to get it done. Hurricane Helene may push disaster aid to the top of the agenda, while a year-end spending deal
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