Senators express concern over OMB Director Vought's push for a more partisan appropriations process, warning it could undermine Congress' power of the purse.

Republicans on the Senate Appropriations Committee endorsed the FBI’s plan spend money on a downtown D.C. headquarters rather than a suburban Maryland campus.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is gaining some key backing on Capitol Hill from GOP senators who fear the repercussions if President Donald Trump follows through with threats to try and remove the politically independent central banker.

A total of 10 Republican senators are urging the Trump administration to reverse its decision to withhold more than $6 billion in federal funds for education programs already appropriated by Congress.

An investigation by Democratic senators has raised concerns about conflicts of interest in telehealth companies' ties to pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Eli Lilly.

Two Democratic senators on Wednesday urged Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr to end investigations into media outlets, including CBS News.

Both Republican senators voted yes in the early hours of July 17. The legislation returns to the House for approval ahead of a Friday deadline.

The opportunity to “ talk to a doctor now ” increases access to care, the drug companies say. But the legislators, and some health policy watchers, worry that relationships between pharma and telehealth companies could drive patients toward expensive and unnecessary medications.

Republicans in the US Senate have said they will spare the US-backed HIV/Aids programme Pepfar from cuts, amid a larger effort to reduce government spending. Senators said they would end a plan to cut $400m (£300m) from the President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief programme, leaving total proposed cuts at $9bn.

WASHINGTON — New York’s two Democratic Senators — Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand — spoke out Thursday against the passage of $9 billion in federal spending cuts to foreign-aid programs and public broadcasting programs.