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Stefanik returns to House GOP leadership and committees after UN nomination withdrawal

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) is getting a seat back at the House GOP leadership table and her spots back on House committees as she returns to the lower chamber after President Trump withdrew her nomination to be U.N. ambassador over concerns about the slim GOP majority.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is appointing Stefanik to be chairwoman of House Republican Leadership, according to a release from her office — a Speaker-appointed position that is outlined in the conference’s rules, but is often vacant.

A release from her office described it as “a senior leadership appointed position focused on strategy, communications, and executing on the mandate from the American people to pass President Trump’s agenda.”

“I am honored to be appointed Chairwoman of House Republican Leadership to lead House Republicans in implementing President Donald Trump’s mandate from the American people for an America First agenda that includes securing our borders, strengthening our national security, growing our economy, and combating the scourge of antisemitism across our country,” Stefanik said in a statement.

The move ends two weeks of uncertainty about how Stefanik would return to House GOP leadership, as Trump had said she would in his Truth Social post announcing that her nomination would be withdrawn. The New York congresswoman had relinquished her No. 4 leadership slot as House Republican Conference Chair since she had been named Trump’s UN pick, and Rep. Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) was elected in her place.

Stefanik will also return to be a senior member of the House Intelligence Committee, as well as have her seats on the Armed Services Committee and Education and Workforce Committee, she said in a statement.

The chair of the Elected Leadership Committee position was last filled by former Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.), after former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) revived the position for his close ally. But Johnson dismissed Graves from the position after he became Speaker. Her office said it has also been used “at critical moments to deliver for the American people.”

This time, Stefanik is set to have a “budget, staff, and expansive strategy, legislative, and communications portfolio,” according to the release.

In explaining the nomination withdrawal, both Trump and Stefanik had cited concerns about the House’s razor-thin majority, which gives leaders almost no room for error as they aim to advance Trump’s ambitious legislative agenda on tax cuts, energy and border policy on party lines. Just a handful of defections can sink a key vote.

Stefanik demonstrated how valuable her vote could be in the first vote she took upon returning to the House since the announcement of her nomination withdrawal.

A procedural vote to tee up the budget resolution framework for Trump’s agenda passed 216-215, with three Republican defections and one Republican not voting. Had Stefanik not been there to vote, and the one other Republican still not voted, it would have failed.

Having Stefanik in the House will slightly increase GOP leadership’s breathing room: Instead of being able to spare two GOP defections, with Stefanik, they can spare three.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5241553-elise-stefanik-house-gop-leadership/

The House passed legislation Wednesday that would limit the power of lower court judges to issue orders

The House passed legislation Wednesday that would limit the power of lower court judges to issue orders with broad national implications amid a rash of rulings to halt the Trump administration’s agenda.

Members voted 219-213 on the No Rogue Rulings Act, with just one Republican joining Democrats in opposition. It represents House GOP leadership’s latest response to President Donald Trump’s growing anger at the federal judiciary, which has served as the primary obstacle for his administration’s sweeping efforts to transform the government and implement aggressive immigration policies.

Trump and his base have increasingly called for the House to impeach judges who have ruled against him. But without the votes to do so, House leadership has been looking for alternatives to placate the right flank of the GOP — including with this bill from Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.).

“In recent years, it has become glaringly obvious that federal judges are overstepping their constitutional bounds,” said Issa on the House floor during debate Tuesday. “This is not a partisan issue. It may be a timely issue for this president, but that does not make it partisan.”

Still, the bill is almost certain to fail in the Senate, where Republicans must accrue enough support from their Democratic colleagues to meet the 60-vote threshold. The lack of enthusiasm among House Democrats for this proposal signals it’s highly unlikely Republicans across the Capitol will find necessary bipartisan support.

Democrats have argued that the courts acted appropriately to curb the overreach of the Trump administration’s powers, and national injunctions are necessary for the federal judiciary to serve as a check on the executive branch.

“Here’s a message: if you don’t like the injunctions, don’t do illegal, unconstitutional stuff,” said Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.). “Nationwide injunctions play an essential role in protecting our democracy and holding the political branches accountable.”

Trump has also asked the Supreme Court to limit lower courts’ abilities to issue injunctions that broadly block his administration’s actions. His administration’s request is pending before the Court, which could issue a ruling at any time.

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/04/09/congress/house-passes-national-injunction-bill-00282914

House GOP cancels budget vote as hard-liners agitate for more spending cuts in Trump’s ‘beautiful’ bill

Speaker Mike Johnson has suggested forging ahead, even through a scheduled recess, as Republican leaders consider tweaks.

House Republican leaders canceled a vote on the Senate’s budget resolution Wednesday night, as Speaker Mike Johnson came to terms with what had been clear for many hours: Too many Republicans would vote in opposition and the measure was bound to fail.

House GOP leaders continued to meet with holdouts late Wednesday and are considering tweaks to get fiscal hawks on board with the budget framework essential to passing President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda. But the outcome is a brutal blow for House GOP leaders and the president, who have spent days trying to wrangle the votes for the fiscal blueprint.

The canceled vote followed hours of suspense, as more than a dozen holdouts met off the floor with Johnson and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise while a vote on a completely separate measure was held open for well over an hour. The evening votes had already been delayed as the House hard-liners were busy back-channeling with Senate Republicans to sketch out deeper spending cuts.

“I just got off the phone with President Trump. And he wants us to get it done. But we’re going to rework things,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) told reporters as she left the meeting with House leaders that prompted the decision to call off the vote.

Johnson told reporters there was a “small subset” of Republican lawmakers opposed to the measure, which Republicans need to adopt in order to unlock the filibuster-skirting power to enact a package of tax cuts, military spending, energy policy, border security investments and more along party lines this year. But even a handful of opponents can sink a partisan bill given the House GOP’s exceedingly narrow majority.

“I’m very optimistic about the outcome of this ‘one big, beautiful bill,’ and this is just one of the steps in getting there,” the speaker said.

Johnson said House leadership will explore either amending the Senate-adopted budget or going straight to conference with the other chamber and working out differences there. One option is adopting an amendment from Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-Pa.) that would ensure Republicans have to enact corresponding spending cuts to offset any tax cuts in a final package. Another option is forcing a level of certain spending cuts in the package.

Lawmakers are slated to head back to their districts Thursday for a two-week recess, meaning that the president may have to wait to see any forward motion on his “big beautiful bill.” But Johnson told reporters Wednesday night that “if we have to come back next week, then we’ll do that.”

Some Republicans are holding out hope there could be a breakthrough before lawmakers leave for their time at home, though. Rep. Rich McCormick of Georgia, one of the GOP lawmakers opposed to the Senate’s budget framework, told reporters Wednesday night, “I think we’ll have a more conservative alternative tomorrow.”

Adoption of identical budget resolutions in both the House and Senate is an essential step to allowing committees to start drafting and passing the party-line package. And if the House amends the Senate’s revamped budget framework, senators would have to endure a third all-night amendment voting session just to approve the budget, before holding another voting spree to pass the final bill.

Across the Capitol, Senate Majority Leader John Thune wasn’t enthused about that idea. “No we can’t do that — another vote-a-rama that drags it on indefinitely. I think everybody realizes that we’re at the time that we’ve got to move,” he said.

The Senate majority leader also met with a group of House fiscal hawks earlier in the evening about their concerns in an attempt to break the impasse and have them approve the Senate’s product, afterward describing the confab as “a really good back and forth” and “constructive.”

“All we can do is make sure they understand where we’re coming from and how closely we want to work with them to get to the final product,” Thune told reporters Wednesday night.

Thune said he didn’t make any commitment to enacting $2 trillion in cuts to safety-net programs in the final bill, however, which some House fiscal hawks are insisting on: “I didn’t say anything quite like that.”

Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), who was also in the meeting with the fiscal hawks, sought to project unity: “Republicans in the Senate, Republicans in the House, are all on the same page — we are all committed to serious and significant savings.”