Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) arrived at this week’s House Republican retreat with hopes of uniting the fractious GOP conference around a plan to pass President Trump’s agenda — but instead,

The head of the House Republican Conference said the party will forge a “blueprint” for a massive reconciliation bill over a multiday retreat this week, stressing how impactful it will be if lawmakers “get this bill right.

I think he’s going to be wise in how he does that,’ the House speaker said Monday of Trump’s warnings to America’s neighbors.

House Speaker Mike Johnson vowed that a plan to pass President Trump’s agenda would be coming soon, but some Republicans want a blueprint faster.

Trump’s move to pause all federal grants and loans is a “legitimate exercise of executive oversight,” said House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., who is often considered an institutionalist who has insisted upon the importance of Congressional power. “I don’t think putting a hold on things is extraordinary.”

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THE KASH CACHE: Of Patel and Gabbard, it’s the FBI nominee who appears on far stronger footing. One tangible example of that is that Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), whose support for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was tepid but decisive, will introduce Patel at today’s hearing, Fox News’ Julia Johnson scooped.

FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: Gov. JB Pritzker and a handful of fellow Democratic governors conferred with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer last night, urging him to get his caucus in line to push back at President Donald Trump ’s actions and appointments, according to a person familiar with their call. Our story is here.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to instruct the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to prepare a 30,000-person migrant facility at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.

House Republicans are overwhelmingly not concerned with Donald Trump's federal aid freeze, with many arguing it's fiscal responsibility and not impoundment.

The decision by Michigan Sen. Gary Peters not to run for a third term set off a political earthquake, igniting buzz about who could get into the race.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement that Colombia agreed to all of Trump’s terms, “including the unrestricted acceptance of all illegal aliens from Colombia returned from the United States, including on U.S. military aircraft, without limitation or delay.”