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{"id":5364,"date":"2025-01-27T13:04:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T13:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-johnsons-gop-retreat-plans-icc-bill-controversial-trump-nominees-ahead\/"},"modified":"2025-01-27T13:04:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T13:04:50","slug":"capitol-agenda-johnsons-gop-retreat-plans-icc-bill-controversial-trump-nominees-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-johnsons-gop-retreat-plans-icc-bill-controversial-trump-nominees-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol agenda: Johnson&#8217;s GOP retreat plans, ICC bill, controversial Trump nominees ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Speaker Mike Johnson will confront an increasingly anxious House GOP today at Donald Trump\u2019s Doral resort, where they\u2019re holding their annual policy retreat through Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><b>The big complication:<\/b> Republicans need to decide which of Trump\u2019s priorities need to be included in their party-line budget reconciliation plan, which is set to touch everything from energy to border security to tax policy, versus the separate, bipartisan spending bill that Republicans have to pass before mid-March.<\/p>\n<p>Members are <a href=\"http:\/\/politico.com\/news\/2025\/01\/27\/republican-retreat-trump-doral-gop-agenda-00002101\" target=\"_blank\">getting impatient for more details<\/a> on both of those packages. After all, the government shutdown deadline is March 14, Congress needs to raise the debt ceiling in the coming months to avoid a default, and \u2014 under Johnson\u2019s latest timeline \u2014 the House Budget Committee is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/23\/congress\/johnson-wants-spending-blueprint-next-week-00200296\" target=\"_blank\">set to meet next week<\/a> to finalize a reconciliation blueprint.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to have a sense of urgency with the debt ceiling coming,\u201d Rep. Barry Moore (R-Ala.), a member of the hard-right Freedom Caucus, told Meredith. \u201cI hope there&#8217;s options at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Here\u2019s what else we\u2019re watching this week:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Nominees: <\/b>Senate Majority Leader John Thune got his first big win of the new Congress by getting Pete Hegseth confirmed as Defense secretary on Friday. But there are other controversial nominees coming up \u2014 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for HHS secretary, Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence and Kash Patel as FBI director. They&#8217;re all facing committee hearings midweek.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><b>ICC bill<\/b>: The Senate is expected to vote Tuesday to advance a bill that would sanction the International Criminal Court, putting Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in a bit of a bind as Democrats try to negotiate a more bipartisan measure. If seven Democrats join all Republicans to move forward on the legislation, his chances at a cross-party deal drop significantly.<\/li>\n<li><b>Inspecting inspector generals: <\/b>Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) acknowledged Trump might have acted illegally by firing a dozen inspectors general, saying in a statement he wants further explanation from Trump, as current law dictates the president must give Congress 30 days\u2019 notice, including a \u201csubstantive rationale,\u201d before dismissing agency watchdogs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Hailey Fuchs contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson will confront an increasingly anxious House GOP today at Donald Trump\u2019s Doral resort, where they\u2019re holding their annual policy retreat through Wednesday. The big complication: Republicans need to decide which of Trump\u2019s priorities need to be included in their party-line budget reconciliation plan, which is set to touch everything from energy to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}