Melanie Zanona

"I am so tired of making phone calls at 2, 3, 4 o'clock in the morning, getting calls from our great speaker. 'Sir, we have 12 hard nos,'" Trump recounts at the GENIUS signing ceremony. "They just want a little love. Unfortunately, it's always the same. Always the same 12 people"

Speaker Johnson tells me he does NOT plan to endorse a candidate in the Homeland Security Committee race. “As I have been for every Chairman's race thus far, I'm not tilting the scales. I know that's unusual. Previous speakers normally did, but I really want the steering…

Speaker Mike Johnson says Trump & the White House are “agnostic” on the House GOP’s Epstein resolution when I asked whether he sought their buy-in on the issue. “They’re agnostic on it,” Johnson said. “Our Rules Committee members, the Republicans there, were unfairly maligned on…

Cornyn tells @NBCNews that Trump isn't ready to endorse him. “I pointed out to him, and he knows this, that if he endorsed me, the race would be over,” Cornyn said. More on the Texas GOP primary: nbcnews.com/politics/2026-… w/ @bkamisar @OSonnier @MZanona @news_jul @frankthorp

Sen. John Cornyn on a Trump endorsement in #TXSen: “I’ve talked to him about it a number of times. He is not ready to make that endorsement. I think as we start advertising and closing the gap in the polls, hopefully he’ll see fit to make that endorsement, but we can’t wait.”…

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., introduces a new bill to repeal some of the Medicaid cuts in Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill, which he voted for. "Now is the time to prevent any future cuts to Medicaid from going into effect," Hawley says. Full text 👇

NEW: Lead investigator into Biden's use of an autopen signed letters with a digital signature W / @MZanona nbcnews.com/politics/congr…

New: Rep. Mike Lawler tells me a decision on New York governor coming “very soon” But he plans to meet w/ Trump first to discuss a path forward GOP leaders & White House have already made clear they want him to stay in House, as @ryanobles & I reported nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna2…

Trump says any Republican who votes against the rescissions package will “not have my support or endorsement”

After voting for Trump's megabill, GOP Sen. Josh Hawley wants to reverse a key Medicaid cut ⁦@news_jul⁩ ⁦@KyleAlexStewart⁩ in Hazelwood, MO nbcnews.com/politics/congr…

New: Democrats and Republicans both want to make Trump's mega bill a defining issue in the 2026 midterms But Republicans have an arguably much tougher sales job An inside look at how both parties are racing to define the bill w/ @sahilkapur @news_jul nbcnews.com/politics/2026-…

NEW: Republicans plot a strategy to fend off Democratic onslaught against Trump megabill Dems are reviving the 2018 playbook to capitalize on an unpopular bill. This time, Republicans say they won’t be complacent. Story w/ @MZanona @news_jul + @OSonnier nbcnews.com/politics/2026-…

One member of Congress said he asked a White House official what the holdouts got in return for supporting the bill, and said the response was, “f---ing nothing.”

BREAKING: House passes massive, multitrillion-dollar tax cuts and spending package, the 'big, beautiful bill,' sending it to Trump's desk. The vote was 218-214. Trump will sign it on July 4th. W/@sahilkapur @KyleAlexStewart @MZanona & Co. nbcnews.com/politics/congr…

Jeffries has officially broken McCarthy’s record for longest House floor speech.

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Remember when Trump said passing the House would be easier than the Senate

Trump’s message to the GOP holdouts: “MAGA IS NOT HAPPY”

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