If Congress is going to avoid another shutdown, lawmakers need to start talking

The most conspicuous sign that Congress faces real obstacles before the Jan. 30 funding deadline came late Thursday, when Senate leaders gave up on passing a spending package and sent members home for ...

Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.

At least six career staff were placed on leave after DHS opened an investigation into whether they misled the agency’s acting director, Madhu Gottumukkala, into taking the test.

Democrats are united in bashing GOP on Obamacare. Medicare for All could reopen a rift.

Progressives are pushing Medicare for All in some of the Democratic Party’s most competitive Senate primaries next year, threatening the unity the party has found on attacking Republicans over ...

Head of US Catholic bishops says deportations are causing 'fear and uncertainty'

Archbishop Paul Coakley, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, warned that the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation campaign is instilling “fear in a rather widespread ...

A Forgotten Young Republicans Scandal Shows How Hard It Is for Party Elders to Control Young Troops

Now, the release of the messages was unsettling the organization’s allies and drawing condemnation from GOP officials. Amid the mounting blowback, the Young Republicans returned to their group chat to ...

Divisions in the desert

DISPATCH FROM PHOENIX: VP JD Vance is here in Arizona today to close out Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest, its annual ...

Six weeks to avoid a shutdown

Congress is in danger of needing to pass another short-term funding patch — or risk triggering another government shutdown — if lawmakers fail to quickly reach a funding deal once they return from the ...

Vance tries to weather the MAGA storm at Turning Point

After three straight days of MAGA infighting here at Turning Point’s AmericaFest, top Republicans — including Vice President JD Vance — tried to find agreement on Sunday afternoon, shifting their ...

Don't call it a tax hike? Trump's demand for a cut of Nvidia's China profits raises novel questions.

Some Democratic lawmakers say Trump is intruding on congressional authority or may be breaking the law by demanding a price for the chip maker's access to China sales.

Lawmakers say White House ‘covering up things’ in release of Epstein files

Pages that show New York grand jury subpoenas being issued into the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell investigation, then pages of redactions that follow, in this document released by the U.S.

The 20-something billionaires ushering in a betting bonanza in Trump’s Washington

The CEOs of Polymarket and Kalshi were facing off with the federal government one year ago. Now they’re new power players in Washington.

Hakeem Jeffries says Obamacare subsidy extension 'will pass with a bipartisan majority'

In a Sunday morning interview with ABC’s Jonathan Karl on “This Week,” Jeffries dismissed Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s remarks that a clean three-year extension of the credits would be dead on ...