House opts for stopgap funding as DHS standoff deepens

Angered by a bipartisan Senate plan to end a partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, House Republicans countered with an eight-week funding extension that virtually ensures a ...
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Senate to stay on SAVE after recess

It was a beautiful, warm Sunday in Washington, D.C., and Sen. Lisa Murkowski was leaving the Capitol to go “pot some plants.” The Alaska Republican, along with her Senate colleagues, were in town that ...

Sources: White House to propose 20 percent cut to NIH funding

The White House is expected to ask Congress to cut National Institutes of Health spending by 20 percent in the president’s fiscal 2027 budget request, according to multiple sources with knowledge of ...

Photos of the week | March 23-27, 2026

From a new senator to blooming cherry blossoms, there was a lot happening on and around Capitol Hill this week ahead of the long spring recess. Here are some of the top images of the past week from ...

Transportation Chair Graves will retire after 26 years in House

Rep. Sam Graves, who chairs the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, is joining a growing list of lawmakers deciding not to seek reelection this year. “After considerable reflection, ...

Cherfilus-McCormick violated ethics rules, subcommittee finds

Members of a House Ethics subcommittee ruled against Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., after a marathon hearing Thursday that stretched into the night, finding that she violated ethics rules.

‘Impulsive and emotional’: Trump tosses traditional wartime presidency blueprint

President Donald Trump has thrown out the blueprint for the wartime American presidency — and it has hindered his management of the Iran conflict, former officials and analysts said. Those experts ...

Senate passes bill to fund most of Homeland Security Department

The Senate broke a logjam in the wee hours of Friday morning to pass a funding bill by voice vote that would effectively end a partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. After a late ...

Competing claims on SAVE America Act disenfranchising voters

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer has said the SAVE America Act “could disenfranchise over 20 million American citizens,” while Republicans dispute that the voter registration and ID bill ...

Spring breakers — Congressional Hits and Misses

This week saw lawmakers scrambling to fund the Department of Homeland Security as the clock continued to tick ahead of the two-week spring recess.
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As summer interns descend on the Hill, this resource office is ready

Being a congressional intern can feel like drinking out of a fire hose, or at least it did to Maggie Mahfood-Bradley when she arrived on the Hill in 2016. Her boss’ staff had competing priorities, and ...