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‘The reality we live in:’ Lawmakers consider what they’d sacrifice for safety As threats to lawmakers and their families persist and intensify, members of Congress are grappling with what steps they’re willing to take to ensure their safety.

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...

‘The reality we live in:’ Lawmakers consider what they’d sacrifice for safety As threats to lawmakers and their families persist and intensify, members of Congress are grappling with what steps they’re willing to take to ensure their safety.

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...

A retiring chief strains to keep the Capitol Police above the partisan fray “I don't think it's wise or necessary or useful to try and convince members of Congress what to think” about the Jan. 6 riot, Thomas Manger says.

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...

DOGE sought access to Government Publishing Office It’s the fourth legislative branch agency to confront interference from the Trump administration in recent weeks.

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...

DOGE sought access to congressional worker-rights watchdog It’s the latest legislative branch agency grappling with unusual Trump administration meddling.

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)
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GOP leaders draw the line at Trump's Library of Congress takeover Quiet resistance from top Republicans has kept Trump officials out — for now.

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)

Hi all, I lost my engagement ring this morning in or near the Rayburn banquet rooms 2043-2045. If anyone has found it please call me 267-614-3583.

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

Sinkhole of bureaucracy There's an old mine in Pennsylvania where the U.S. processes federal retirements. By hand. On paper. In 2014.

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”

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Bipartisan funding negotiations begin in Congress ahead of March shutdown cliff With an opening salvo, top Republican appropriators kicked off the back-and-forth of government funding offers.

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...

Democrats plot strategy for fighting Trump on funding freeze On a private call with more than 100 people, top House Democrats strategized for fighting the new president's executive actions on clawing back Congress' "power of the purse."

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

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Westborough business provides restrooms for presidential inauguration

Important news from back home

There is >always< a local angle!!
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The 72-hour dash to move Trump’s inauguration

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

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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.)

Donald Trump’s quiet Jan. 6 Monday's certification of Trump's victory will be the antithesis of the carnage at the Capitol four years ago.

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 Trump’s decision is a win for House Ways & Means Chair Jason Smith.

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

Here are some of the NPR stories that had a big impact in 2024 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.

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.

Inside how the Capitol Police has changed since Jan. 6, 2021 It's a completely different department since the attack, adding intelligence gathering and threat assessment divisions that have driven up the USCP budget.

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

It was exactly what it was meant to be 🤌

(But also would Netflix pay me to take scripts / sets and make them more accurate??)

Republicans scramble for a path forward after spending plan collapse Speaker Mike Johnson must balance conflicting interests as a government shutdown looms.

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

Congress’ year-end funding deal ‘not quite there’ ahead of Friday shutdown cliff Disputes continue over agriculture aid and other potential add-ons.

It’s 5:50 am on Tuesday and there’s still no CR text

www.politico.com/news/2024/12...

Congress’ year-end funding deal ‘not quite there’ ahead of Friday shutdown cliff Disputes continue over agriculture aid and other potential add-ons.

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/...)