Friday

17-04-2026 Vol 19

Category: Congress

Capitol agenda: Trump’s SOTU demands for Congress

President Donald Trump littered his record-breaking, nearly two-hour-long State of the Union address Tuesday night with dramatic tributes to American heroes, caustic attacks on congressional Democrats and a preview...

Here’s how to watch Trump’s State of the Union address

President Donald Trump is set to descend on Capitol Hill for his annual State of the Union address on Tuesday, as his administration faces growing outcry over its nationwide...

Shutdown talks make little progress as DHS bill stalls in Senate

Senate Democrats blocked a Department of Homeland Security funding for a second time Tuesday, underscoring a shutdown stalemate now in its second week. Senators voted 50-45 to advance a...

Ahead of SOTU, Dems demand Trump makes Iran plans public

As President Donald Trump prepared to deliver his State of the Union Address Tuesday night, top Democratic lawmakers emerged from a classified briefing on Iran and urged him to...

No. 2 House Democrat won’t attend State of the Union

House Minority Whip Katherine Clark said she will be skipping President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech Tuesday, becoming the most senior Democrat to boycott the annual address....

Scalise, committee chairs huddle with White House officials on GOP agenda

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise held a dinner Monday night with Republican committee chairs and senior White House officials to discuss the GOP legislative agenda ahead of the midterms,...

Democrats to probe DOJ’s alleged withholding of Epstein files on Trump

Republicans are accusing their colleagues across the aisle of launching a “witch hunt.”

Judges plead with Congress for control of crumbling courthouses

The infrastructure of the nation’s federal courthouses is crumbling, plagued by collapsing ceilings, malfunctioning elevators and contaminated water supplies, a top representative for the federal judiciary declared in an...

Tony Gonzales says he will not resign

GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales told reporters Tuesday he will not step down from his seat amid allegations he had an affair with a staffer who later died by suicide....

Abigail Spanberger to address House Democrats at policy retreat

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger will headline House Democrats’ annual policy retreat Wednesday, addressing her former colleagues just a day after delivering her party’s televised response to President Donald Trump’s...