Tax breaks tallying more than $5 trillion.

Amending the Texas Constitution to crack down on the state’s bail practices has been an elusive priority of Gov. Greg Abbott’s for three consecutive sessions.

The bill would bar those under 18 from checking out books with sexually explicit material without parental permission.

Concerns about measures to enforce a ban against a lawmaker’s access to voter files led the party to drop the vote, a party leader said.

Supporters of a measure to create a commission to study potential reparations for slavery in Maryland have rallied next to the Capitol and the governor’s residence to urge Gov. Wes Moore to sign the legislation.

Senate Democrats have blocked legislation to regulate a form of cryptocurrency after arguing that the bill needed stronger protections.

The Republican-led House has passed a bill that would rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America and direct federal agencies to update their documents and maps to incorporate the new name.

House Republicans appear to be backing off some, but not all, of the steep reductions to the Medicaid program as part of their big tax breaks bill.

While Gov. Greg Abbott steps up his push for stricter bail rules, critics seek a balance between the rights of the accused and the goal of keeping dangerous defendants behind bars.

The bill would allow a vaccine exemption form to be downloadable. Currently, a form must be requested from the state and mailed to the recipient.

Senate Democrats plan to force a vote in the coming weeks on a resolution to require more transparency from President Donald Trump’s administration about deportations to El Salvador.

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said President Donald Trump’s 100 days in office have been an assault of Americans’ very way of life.

The Trump administration has frozen, stalled or otherwise disrupted some $430 billion in federal funds since the president took office — from federal disease research to Head Start for children to disaster aid.

President Donald Trump says he is bringing back Columbus Day.

After Republicans and Democrats fight over the budget and constitutional amendments, GOP members stake out a new battlefield.

There’s political urgency for Republicans to deal with housing affordability, especially as surveys find most Texans say housing costs are a top concern.

Four House Democrats are visiting El Salvador in a bid to support Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man whom the Trump administration deported to a notorious Salvadoran prison.

Virginia Democrats are vying to shield their statehouse majority while flipping the governor’s mansion in November, and new reports show they have a cash advantage in those races against Republicans.

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has appeared at a town hall in suburban Atlanta to deliver full-throated support of President Donald Trump.

From The Blast: More than 50 House Democrats have signed on to a plan to spike all constitutional amendments unless the House allows voters to decide whether school vouchers will be legalized.

Among the hundreds of amendments were ones that focused on school vouchers, the attorney general’s office and the Texas Lottery.

An overhauled version of Senate Bill 37 would also allow anyone to file complaints that could lead schools to lose funds.

House Republicans have narrowly approved their budget framework.

Much of the outbreak is concentrated in the districts of Texas House leaders, including Speaker Dustin Burrows. The crisis appears to have done little to change support for “vaccine choice.”

While Democrats and abortion access advocates pushed to ensure pregnant women aren’t criminalized, some conservatives questioned whether this bill is needed.

Boxed into a vote on outlawing spending on gender affirming care for transgender prisoners, Georgia Democrats chose a third option Wednesday.

A new AP-NORC poll finds that while most Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump’s handling of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the conflict is not weighing as heavily on his public perception as it did on President Joe Biden.

Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego says he will block the confirmation of top leaders at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The House Public Education Committee voted to advance a pair of priority bills to create education savings accounts and to raise how much state money public school districts receive.

The State Democratic Executive Committee will meet on Saturday to elect the successor to party Chair Gilberto Hinojosa.

The Texas Democrat made fun of the governor during a speech over the weekend in Los Angeles to an LGBTQ rights group.

Congressional lawmakers are scrambling to formulate a response to President Donald Trump’s slashing of the federal government as one group takes a front and center role: military veterans.

New Hampshire has tested out its new law requiring people to show proof of citizenship before registering to vote.

The Department of Homeland Security is making cuts to three key offices that oversee civil rights protections across its broad mission, suggesting that they were impeding immigration enforcement efforts.

Democratic lawmakers are courting online content creators, podcasters and celebrities in a bid to find new ways to boost their message to voters.

The Social Security Administration’s plan to require in-person identity checks for millions of new and existing recipients has drawn ire from lawmakers, advocacy groups and program recipients who are concerned that the government is placing barriers in front of people seeking to access their benefits.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is postponing several scheduled events this week to promote his new book after some liberal groups had planned to stage protests.

Senate Democrats were grim Friday as they left Washington after a brutal 10-week stretch that consistently showed the limits of their new minority and culminated with a deeply personal rupture over how to best counter President Donald Trump.

The Democratic Party appears fractured as a torrent of frustration and anger has been unleashed on Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer.

Turner, who spent nearly three decades in the Texas House and died last week, was remembered as a passionate Democrat committed to working across the aisle.

The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs.

The Legislature is considering bills that would lift long-standing restrictions on how Texas’ panel can investigate maternal deaths and near-misses.

The chairman of the House Republican campaign committee is already predicting his party will pick up seats in the midterm election that are some 20 months away.

Lindsey Boylan helped drive Andrew Cuomo from office in 2021 when the former aide came forward as the first woman to accuse the governor of sexual harassment.

A president’s address to Congress — even without the formal gloss of a State of the Union address — is typically a time for a call to national unity and predictable claims about the country being strong.

Lawmakers this week listened to testimony on House Bill 2, which would raise schools’ base funding per student by $220 — a figure that falls short of what many Texans say is needed.

The vote comes amid a broader push by conservative Christians to infuse more religion into public schools and life.

The goal of the new legislation is to help drive down the cost of housing so that more Texans can afford homes.

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are introducing two resolutions demanding the Trump administration turn over information about billionaire adviser Elon Musk’s potential conflicts of interest and firing of federal workers.

The Senate has rejected legislation aiming to bar transgender women and girls from participating in school athletic competitions designated for female athletes.

House Republicans have muscled their budget blueprint to passage, with a push from President Donald Trump.

Olivia Julianna, 22, loves politics but hates the in-fighting she sees in too many Democratic campaigns in the state.

The budget resolution from Republicans was on the agenda in the Senate, but the nearly all-night debate encompassed so much more.

Many U.S. adults believe the federal government is overspending.

President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, Todd Blanche, criticized the criminal cases against the Republican as “partisan lawfare” during his confirmation hearing to become the No. 2 Justice Department official.

President Donald Trump’s budget chief has sent an email to consumer protection agency employees telling them to stop working.

Democrats are opposing Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency as it turns its attention to the Education Department, with lawmakers raising questions about DOGE’s access to internal systems containing personal information on tens of millions of Americans.

The Texas Senate has passed Senate Bill 2, a bill that will allow school choice and vouchers in the state.

Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee are demanding answers after they say President Donald Trump gave Elon Musk's staff access to sensitive and classified government information.

Senate Bill 2 now heads to the House, where top officials say they have the support to create education savings accounts.

Less than 24 after KPRC 2 Investigates exposed whether the Houston Independent School District did everything by the book regarding last November’s $4 billion bond, one Texas State Senator already is saying that he believes state law was broken.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro will seek more money for public schools and public transit in his new budget proposal to lawmakers.

Elon Musk is rapidly consolidating control over large swaths of the federal government with President Donald Trump’s blessing.

In January 2025, a University of Houston survey of 1,200 Texans revealed mixed opinions on immigration policies under President Trump's intensified measures.

The Senate has confirmed Doug Burgum as interior secretary.

The Justice Department has abandoned all criminal proceedings against President Donald Trump’s two co-defendants in the classified documents case against him in Florida, foreclosing the chance the case against them could ever be revived.

Conservative activists in the GOP caucus called any power sharing with the minority party a betrayal of Republican voters.

President Donald Trump unleashed an unprecedented barrage of executive orders after taking office this week.

The Senate has passed a bill that would require federal authorities to detain migrants accused of theft and violent crimes.

The Democrats’ short list of possible benefits: A leader who learned to keep promises, a chance at chairing committees, and what they see as more chances for a fairer playing field.

Jimmy Carter's state funeral has moved to Washington after observances in his native Georgia.

Virginia Democrats have preserved their Statehouse majority in special elections.

Plesa, a Dallas Democrat, said the party should embrace bipartisanship, and start talking about economic issues.

Republicans in Congress plan to move quickly in their effort to overhaul the nation’s voting procedures, seeing an opportunity with control of the White House and both chambers of Congress.

The Washington Commanders' path to returning to nation's capital is clear after an on-again, off-again saga in Congress ended with a late reprieve.

Democrats in North Carolina were celebrating big wins in the swing state after the November election, including victories for governor and other top statewide offices.

President-elect Donald Trump has delivered a likely death blow to bipartisan congressional budget negotiations.

President-elect Donald Trump is accusing the Des Moines Register newspaper and its pollster of “brazen election interference” for publishing a poll the weekend before the election that showed Democrat Kamala Harris was leading by three percentage points in the midwestern state.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won't be the top Democrat on a prominent House committee next year.

A new poll finds that Democrats are feeling more pessimistic about the U.S. economy after Donald Trump's victory.

Republicans who vote against party leaders’ preferred candidate could be barred from running in primaries. Lawsuits could follow.

Senate Democrats failed in their bid to confirm a Democratic member of the National Labor Relations Board after the Senate rejected a razor-thin vote that hinged on the pivotal rejections of independent Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona.

President Joe Biden is threatening to veto legislation that would expand the federal judiciary.

Voters in some parts of the country are discovering that having their say at the ballot box is not necessarily the final word, even though this year's election was over a month ago.

The House has shut down Democrats’ efforts to release the long-awaited ethics report into former Rep. Matt Gaetz.

Wu defeated incumbent Trey Martinez Fischer on Thursday to become the next chair of the Texas House Democratic Caucus.

Senate Democrats reelected Chuck Schumer as party leader on Tuesday as the party moves into a deeply uncertain time, with no real consensus on a strategy as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office.

Ben Wikler, chair of the Democratic Party in Wisconsin, says he's joined the race to lead the national party after an election that swept Donald Trump and Republicans to power in Washington.

Democrat Derek Tran has defeated two-term Republican U.S. Rep. Michelle Steel in a Southern California House district that was specifically drawn to give Asian Americans a stronger voice on Capitol Hill.

Donald Trump loved to use tariffs during his first presidency.

After Democrats underperformed nationally and in Texas, the McAllen Democrat had some sharp commentary for his party and said he won't be taking their advice.

The chair of the Democratic National Committee has informed party leaders that the organization will elect his successor just days after Donald Trump is inaugurated.

Her Trump-endorsed Republican rival has called Democratic U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur to concede.

At a delicate moment in the U.S. and for the world, President Joe Biden has been notably quiet lately.

Texas’ strict abortion bans made it “ground zero” for Democrats hoping to rile up their base, but voters prioritized economic issues.

Democratic lawmakers who wield control of the Virginia Legislature are hoping to make good on promises made on the campaign trail, including becoming the first Southern state to expand constitutional protections for abortion access.

Congress has a short but important to-do list as lawmakers return to Washington this coming week for what is known as a lame-duck session.

Black and Latino voters moved toward Republican Donald Trump in this year's presidential election, and some of the biggest shifts were among men under age 45, and that helped expand his margin over Democrat Kamala Harris.

Gilberto Hinojosa’s resignation ends a 12-year run leading the state party, dating back to his election at the 2012 Texas Democratic Convention.

Tuesday was another electoral blowout in which Democrats underperformed expectations, weakening their case that Texas is a battleground state worthy of investment and attention from the national party.