Category: Congress

Senate Democrats want a vote on an alternative stopgap funding bill as they look for leverage against Republicans with two days to go until a government shutdown. The lawmakers...

President Donald Trump’s pick for the No. 2 post at the White House budget office — a position key to orchestrating Trump’s orders to freeze funding — has cleared...

House Republican tax writers were clamming up Wednesday about their tax plans, a sign that negotiations were getting serious as they prepared to go into a second day of...

Senate Finance Committee Republicans will meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday to discuss the path forward for crafting legislation to enact broad swaths of...

Senate Democrats are grappling with whether or not to support a House GOP funding patch less than three days before a possible government shutdown. With 52 Republicans expected to...

Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday said Congress will probe “domestic terrorism” attacks targeting the Tesla car brand after vehicles and storefronts were vandalized. “Congress will investigate the sources of...

She's the third Senate Democrat to announce their retirement ahead of the midterms.

House Republicans passed their stopgap funding bill Tuesday evening, which means Senate Democrats can now no longer delay their long-dreaded decision: Do they give up a chance to stand...

Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday gave his most candid assessment yet of billionaire Elon Musk's influence in Congress and the potential threat he poses to legislative dealmaking: "He can...

Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune met on Tuesday and discussed the sweeping domestic policy legislation at the top of their 2025 agenda. The closed-door conversation...