When House Speaker Mike Johnson gifted to President Donald Trump the gavel used to enact the Republicans' tax breaks and spending bill, it was a memorable moment at the White House.
Under intense pressure from President Donald Trump’s own supporters, his administration now is asking a federal court to unseal secret documents related to Jeffrey Epstein’s case.
House Republicans are trying to formulate a response to the Trump administration’s handling of records in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case.
The Republican-led Congress is testing the popularity of Department of Government Efficiency spending cuts.
The House has approved President Donald Trump’s request to claw back about $9 billion for public broadcasting and foreign aid.
The Justice Department has fired Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey and a prosecutor in the federal cases against Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jeffrey Epstein.
Vice President JD Vance made the Trump administration’s first big pitch to sell the public on President Donald Trump’s sweeping budget-and-policy package in the swing political turf of northeastern Pennsylvania.
House Republicans are struggling with cryptocurrency legislation that they had expected to pass during what they dubbed “crypto week.”.
Senate Republicans have advanced President Donald Trump’s request to cancel some $9 billion in previously approved spending.
The co-sponsors of new bipartisan U.S. sanctions package targeting Russia have briefed European allies and Ukraine on the legislation.
Democrats are using a Louisiana town hall to preview one of their main strategies for attempting to retake the U.S. House next year, ripping into the health care changes in the just-passed Republican tax and spending bill.
Greg LeMond, who is one of the most decorated cyclists in American history as a three-time Tour de France winner, has been honored with the Congressional Gold Medal.
U.S. President Donald Trump held a private dinner with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as families of hostages held in Gaza push for any ceasefire agreement to include the release of all remaining hostages.
The House has passed the massive tax and spending cuts package that President Donald Trump calls “beautiful,” getting it to his desk a day before the July 4 deadline that he had set.
House Republicans have lifted President Donald Trump’s $4.5 trillion tax breaks and spending cuts bill to final passage.
House Republicans have propelled President Donald Trump’s multitrillion-dollar tax breaks and spending cuts bill to final congressional passage.
House Republicans strained through a day of starts and stops trying to advance President Donald Trump’s tax and spending cuts package.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune says Republicans “got the job done” in passing President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts.
Possible changes to President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts are being considered, though most of the amendments are expected to fail.
The Senate’s long day of voting has churned into a long night as Republican leaders grasp for ways to shore up support for President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts.
Debate has been underway late into the night in the Senate on President Donald Trump’s big tax breaks and spending cuts package.
Senate Republicans voted in a dramatic Saturday session, clearing a key procedural step as they race to pass President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and bolstered deportation funds by his July Fourth deadline.
Democratic efforts in the Senate to prevent President Donald Trump from further escalating with Iran have fallen short.
Republican efforts to loosen regulations on gun silencers and short-barreled rifles and shotguns have been dealt a big setback.
The Supreme Court is in the final days of a term that has lately been dominated by the Trump administration’s emergency appeals of lower court orders seeking to slow President Donald Trump’s efforts to remake the federal government.
Senators are emerging from a classified briefing with sharply diverging assessments of President Donald Trump’s bombing of three Iranian nuclear sites.
President Donald Trump’s spending cuts and border security package would inject hundreds of billions of dollars into his mass deportation agenda.
President Donald Trump says “NO ONE GOES ON VACATION” until the big, beautiful bill is on his desk by the Fourth of July deadline.
President Donald Trump’s administration has postponed classified briefings for Senate and House members on Tuesday as lawmakers are looking for more answers about Trump’s directed strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend and his announcement on Monday that the two countries had reached a ceasefire agreement.
The massive tax and spending cuts package that President Donald Trump wants on his desk by July 4 would loosen regulations on gun silencers and certain types of rifles and shotguns.
President Donald Trump’s decision to launch a military strike on Iran’s nuclear sites without fully consulting the U.S. Congress is layering a partisan approach onto a risky action.
President Donald Trump’s bombardment of three sites in Iran has quickly sparked debate in Congress over his authority to launch the strikes, with Republicans praising Trump for decisive action even as many Democrats warned he should have sought congressional approval.
The Supreme Court is in the homestretch of a term that has lately been dominated by the Trump administration’s emergency appeals of lower court orders seeking to slow President Donald Trump’s efforts to remake the federal government.
Senate Republicans are proposing deeper Medicaid cuts, including new work requirements for parents of teens, as a way to offset the costs of making President Donald Trump’s tax breaks more permanent.
The Supreme Court is in the homestretch of a term that has lately been dominated by the Trump administration’s emergency appeals of lower court orders seeking to slow President Donald Trump’s efforts to remake the federal government.
The Republican tax bill approved by the House would cost the poorest Americans roughly $1,600 a year while increasing the income of the wealthiest households by an average of $12,000 annually.
Democratic U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla of California has been forcefully removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s news conference in Los Angeles and handcuffed by officers as he tried to speak up about immigration raids that have led to protests in California and elsewhere.
Two of the police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol from a mob of Trump supporters have filed a lawsuit to compel Congress to follow one of its own laws and install a memorial to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.
The House has voted to cut about $9.4 billion in spending as President Donald Trump’s administration looks to follow through on work done by the Department of Government Efficiency when it was overseen by Elon Musk.
Southern Baptist representatives have fended off two efforts to move the staunchly conservative body even more sharply to the right.
President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” includes more than tax breaks and spending cuts — it also seeks to pour billions of dollars into his mass deportation agenda.
Speaker Mike Johnson took clear sides Sunday in President Donald Trump’s breakup with mega-billionaire Elon Musk.
President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk are showing no signs of reconciling on Friday, but Republicans are increasingly urging them to settle their dispute.
After long months when President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk appeared united in their chaotic mission to remake Washington, their relationship imploded this week.
A small government office with some 275 employees has found itself caught in the political crossfire as Congress debates President Donald Trump’s “one big beautiful bill.”.
President Donald Trump’s big bill is likely to unleash trillions in tax cuts and slash spending, but also spike deficits by $2.4 trillion over the decade and leave some 10.9 million more people without health insurance.
Speaker Mike Johnson was rushing through the halls of the Capitol during the overnight House vote on President Donald Trump's big tax bill.
House Republicans stayed up all night to pass their multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package, with Speaker Mike Johnson defying the skeptics and unifying his ranks to muscle President Donald Trump’s priority bill to approval.
House Republicans are getting closer to passing President Donald Trump’s tax breaks, spending cuts and beefed-up border security.
Despite risks that President Donald Trump’s multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package could stall due to conservative holdouts, House Speaker Mike Johnson and his GOP leadership team appeared confident that they will be able to stick to their schedule and shore up Republican support for final passage before Memorial Day.
Defying opposition from within his ranks, House Speaker Mike Johnson insisted late Wednesday that Republicans would march ahead on their multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package.
Attorneys say U.S. immigration authorities appear to have begun deporting migrants from Myanmar and Vietnam to South Sudan despite a court order on removals to third countries.
The 1925 Scopes monkey trial famously put the spotlight on evolution and appeared to mark a defeat for biblical fundamentalism.
President Donald Trump has implored House Republicans on Capitol Hill to drop their fights over his big tax cuts bill.
Moscow is ready to work toward ending the fighting in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday following a two-hour phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump will look to build momentum for his sweeping tax cut and immigration bill, meeting with House Republicans as they try to work out their differences.
House Republicans are in the final rounds of negotiations over a sweeping budget plan that has been significantly influenced by President Donald Trump's priorities.
Republicans continue to make progress on President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and beefed-up border security, though considerable divisions remain as Speaker Mike Johnson attempts to bridge the differences in his conference.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is set to appear in federal court for a status conference on the Trump administration’s charge he trespassed at an immigration detention center in the city last week.
There were cheers when Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee signed off on the GOP tax breaks bill after a round-the-clock session that pushed President Donald Trump’s package past overwhelming Democratic opposition.
Republicans in Congress are moving with rapid speed to advance President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and beefed-up border security funding.
President Donald Trump’s agreement with China to temporarily slash tariffs for 90 days offered the world a bit of welcome relief.
House Republicans have proposed cutting billions of dollars in funding for Biden-era climate and environmental programs, including clean energy tax credits.
House Republicans have unveiled the cost-saving centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”.
The Republican Party is trying to figure out what it stands for in terms of economic policy during the second Trump administration.
After flirting with raising the tax rate for the wealthiest earners, President Donald Trump is backing off that call — sort of.
As Republican leaders draft President Donald Trump’s big bill of $4.5 trillion in tax breaks and $1.5 trillion in spending cuts, dozens of more moderate Republicans from contested congressional districts have positioned themselves at the center of the negotiating table.
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.
House Republicans have added a provision to their sweeping tax cut package that would authorize the sale of hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands in Nevada and Utah.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney faced off in the Oval Office on Tuesday and showed no signs of retreating from their gaping differences in an ongoing trade war that has shattered decades of trust between the two countries.
Congress is drafting President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and beefed-up border security and deportation funds.
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said President Donald Trump’s 100 days in office have been an assault of Americans’ very way of life.
Republicans in Congress are working to pump billions of dollars into President Donald Trump’s mass deportation and border security program.
The only Black, all-female unit to serve in Europe during World War II, known as the “Six Triple Eight,” has been presented with the Congressional Gold Medal.
Republican members of Congress have gone to great lengths to avoid public meetings with their constituents over their two-week Easter recess.
In his first 100 days, President Donald Trump has exerted his power on a scale with no easy historical comparison.
Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser and the District of Columbia Council are scrambling to address a financial crisis created when the Republican-controlled House of Representatives recessed without voting to fix a hole in the city budget.
A bipartisan group of representatives have forced a delay in Congress over a proposed rule that would let new parents cast their vote by proxy.
