new - Congressional lawmakers are once again grappling with the reality of persistent and escalating political violence — and facing a dilemma about whether to pour more tax dollars into their own protection. w/ @ktullymcmanus.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

Tragic political violence leads to fear on Capitol Hill … and a LegBranch funding question @nicholaswu12.bsky.social & I dove into the balancing act lawmakers face between security, accessibility, freedom … & how much taxpayer $$ should go to protect themselves www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

New - Thomas Manger inherited a force in crisis when he became chief of the U.S. Capitol Police four years ago. He’s now leaving a force under a microscope. Our exit interview with the USCP chief w/ @ktullymcmanus.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

NEW: DOGE made an attempt to access a fourth legislative branch agency, the Government Publishing Office 📃📃📃 Leadership at GPO declined the request. www.politico.com/live-updates...

The Office of Congressional Workplace Rights — which handles reports of discrimination & harassment on the Hill — denied DOGE access to their department this week (Confirming AP’s Seung Min Kim) www.politico.com/live-updates...

GOP congressional leaders have stood aside as President Donald Trump has attacked legislative branch prerogatives — shuttering agencies, canceling federal grants and imposing sweeping tariffs. Now he’s meddling in their actual back yard. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

a summary of my current information intake in venn diagram form (cc @ktullymcmanus.bsky.social)

Rayburn HOB folks: please, please be on the lookout for Mallory’s beautiful ring 💍 (& spread the word!)

For folks who learned about OPM’s cave facility this week don’t miss the great 2014 piece from @fahrenthold.bsky.social A wild story that really stuck with me all these years (will admit to revisiting many times!) Awesome headline: “Sinkhole of bureaucracy” www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/...

Congress’ top appropriators gathered privately Thursday evening in the Capitol for an hour-long “four corners” meeting — the first concrete step toward a bipartisan funding agreement Collins & Cole made an opening offer www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

Less than 24 hours after President Donald Trump’s Day One blitz of executive actions, Democrats on Capitol Hill mobilized Tuesday to fight his move to freeze a broad range of federal cash. w/ Nick Wu & Jen Scholtes www.politico.com/live-updates...

Important news from back home There is >always< a local angle!! https://buff.ly/4jo53qT

The 72-hour dash to move Trump’s inauguration The call to move the swearing in indoors was made by the Trump team, but the pivot will have to be executed by the JCCIC & hundreds of workers across Capitol Hill www.politico.com/newsletters/...

The Millennials are coming! (Relatedly, until Vance leaves the Senate to become VP in a few weeks, the chamber will have a record 5 Millennials: Britt, Kim, Vance, Sheehy, and--America's first Millennial senator--Ossoff.)

NEW: Donald Trump will get the peaceful Jan. 6 he denied Democrats four years ago. But the quiet belies a simmering tension over the fate of Jan. 6 defendants and efforts to ensure the violence/danger that day posed is not forgotten. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

Johnson tells House Republicans that Trump wants one ‘big beautiful’ reconciliation package That’s the first news out of today’s reconciliation mtgs at Fort McNair

From learning a new skill to prompting federal legislation, here are some of the ways people's lives were affected by the NPR Network's journalism this year.

Very festive 🎄🕎 www.politico.com/news/2024/12...

What's next: House Republican leaders plan to work through the night and into Friday on a Plan C for funding the government, after abandoning their deal with Democrats and failing to pass an alternative backed by President-elect Donald Trump. www.politico.com/live-updates...

The CR was already in trouble but JD Vance & Trump throwing DEBT CEILING into the mix threw the fate of the stopgap spending deal further into chaos A Capitol Christmas party 🎄& an 11th hr Trump take collide t.co/rwKxRNJJrs

Johnson has told GOPers to plan for an all day meeting about reconciliation on Saturday, Jan. 4. The only thing less fun than spending your whole Saturday thinking about reconciliation (trust me, I've done it) is spending your whole Saturday having the second day of a Speakership fight, I'd think.

So fresh, so clean Senate steps getting a power wash this morning

It’s 5:50 am on Tuesday and there’s still no CR text www.politico.com/news/2024/12...

Cole says “not quite there” Johnson is “intent” on 72 hours rule Lots of hoping for CR text tonight but no confident promises

You can go out and just look at the night sky because it’s lovely. Don’t even need national security threats as an excuse.

Who’s come through with the 2025 House & Senate schedules that plug right into my Google calendar (thus governing my life?) 🙏

Hello to everyone else whose ears perked up during this speech when Kildee referenced getting to speak to John Lewis often in Lewis's final weeks because Kildee held Lewis's proxy for floor voting during COVID and needed to find out how Lewis wanted him to vote. (Oh, I was the only one?)

(inspired by this @ktullymcmanus.bsky.social tribute item: www.politico.com/newsletters/...)

Tons of speeches today about Senators having a blast on Sen. Joe Manchin's houseboat. I talked to Manchin on Monday night about what's next for Almost Heaven (the boat) as his exit from the Senate approaches. In tonight's Inside Congress: t.co/7W7eveO8ae

Founding members of the Senate's new DOGE Caucus didn't include any appropriators Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) wants to be a bridge between DOGE & the folks who actually write spending bills (she's waiting to hear back if she'll get to join the caucus) www.politico.com/live-updates...

End of year spending state-of-play: Negotiations have started, as Donald Trump has still not publicly weighed in on his preferences and lawmakers are running out of time www.politico.com/live-updates...

Schumer on year-end spending: "We need to keep divisive and unnecessary provisions out of any government  funding extension, or it will get harder to pass a CR in time. For now, I'm pleased negotiations are on the right track."

It’s small business Saturday and there’s so many worthy small businesses out there. A personal fave of mine is Lunch City Studio run by architect/artist Courtney (& her dog 🐶 Lunchbox). My home is filled with prints, maps & more from Lunch City

Every US presidential election period we do a wide crawl of all federal websites. YOU can contribute to the 2024 End of Term Web Archive eotarchive.org/contribute/ - Nominate Gov URLs - Upload bulk seed lists - Help surface database deep links - Spread the word #EOT2024 #EOTArchive

I’ve actually never seen a single traffic law enforced in this city 🤷🏼‍♀️ https://buff.ly/412PIVW

New member orientation this year came alongside some wild lessons about the craziness of life on Capitol Hill

Sen. Susan Collins on Gaetz withdrawal “I think it's the best decision that Rep. Gaetz could have made” “he has put country first, and I'm pleased with his decision.” “There were a lot of red flags”

Wish I had eaten lunch before Gaetz withdrew www.politico.com/live-updates...

✨Professional News✨ I’m taking on the 💰budget & appropriations💰 beat on Politico’s Congress team. Excited to get back to my roots: obsessing over spending bills (even if it's an omnibus in the end)