House Speaker Mike Johnson said the Republican-led Congress is unlikely to pass new spending bills for the current fiscal year because of "unreasonable" demands that Democrats have made in ongoing government funding negotiations.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily blocked a lower court order telling the Trump administration to pay nearly $2 billion by midnight in a fight over its hold on United States Agency for International Development (USAID) money.

President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday directing federal agencies to work with Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency to examine and document payments made as a way to cut unnecessary costs.

The House GOP on Wednesday took the first step in its plan to dismantle a plethora of energy policies from the Biden administration, part of a broader push by congressional Republicans to roll back swathes of energy-related regulations.