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Congressional Republicans notched a major victory by muscling a funding bill through the House, but GOP lawmakers are still struggling to make headway on President Donald Trump’s biggest legislativ...
Senate Democrats haven’t even surrendered yet on a government shutdown — but already White House officials are gloating about making them eat crow, almost taunting them to vote “no.”Senate Minority...
Before becoming FBI director, Kash Patel didn’t usually wear a tie, but if you paid attention during his Fox News hits, you would have seen a shiny piece of metal on his suit jacket that made him p...
Pete Hoekstra proved an able firefighter for Donald Trump last summer, extinguishing a Republican Party civil war in his home state of Michigan and ultimately helping ensure the crucial state voted...
NATO chief Mark Rutte, who leads the world’s most powerful military alliance, is finding himself sitting in the backseat.France and the United Kingdom are going straight to President Donald Trump t...
A federal judge has ordered that Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency turn over a wide array of records and answer questions about plans it crafted to downsize federal agencies, fi...
SACRAMENTO, California — California will need to borrow $3.44 billion to close a budget gap in the state’s Medicaid program, Newsom administration officials told lawmakers Wednesday in a letter obt...
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Two days out from a government shutdown, Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats find themselves in a serious jam. But some of them are starting to hint at how they might get out of it.Publicly, the Sen...
It’s the accounting maneuver that could break the Senate, upend the federal budget process and explode the national debt.That’s according to critics of a fiscal tactic that congressional Republican...
Senate Democrats’ already difficult 2026 map just got even worse.After losing the majority last November, the party faced a very narrow path out of the wilderness. Then Sen. Jeanne Shaheen piled on...
Agencies across the federal government are facing a Thursday deadline to submit plans for sweeping workforce cuts and reorganizations.President Donald Trump ordered agencies last month to draft pla...
A senior official at USAID instructed a number of the agency’s remaining staff to convene at the agency’s now-former headquarters in Washington on Tuesday for an “all day” group effort to destroy d...
OTTAWA — Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly plans to welcome her G7 counterparts to Charlevoix, Quebec, with a warning: “If the U.S. can do this to us, their closest friend, then nobody is safe.”On the ...
Steve Bannon isn’t taking 2028 off the table.In an profanity-laced interview on Wednesday with POLITICO, the MAGA firebrand repeatedly refused to rule out a presidential bid, as GOP sources close t...
Billionaire business mogul Mark Cuban is aiming to clean up after the Department of Government Efficiency.The longtime critic of Donald Trump is fielding business pitches from former and current fe...
President Donald Trump has given Vice President JD Vance some of the toughest assignments in the White House. His allies say it’s a sign of trust, but the political risk is high for the young fireb...
Unlike traditional Washington power players, Elon Musk doesn’t have a deep bench of policy wonks, think tank researchers or Hill veterans feeding him white papers to bone up on policy — not unlike ...
President Donald Trump’s retaliation against a prominent Democratic-linked law firm is likely unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell blocked the Trump ad...
We have a president who calls himself a king, TikTok fashion creators are teaching their followers how to DIY chainmail bonnets, actors are stepping onto red carpets adorned in silver motifs remini...
Let’s stipulate something before we dive into this post so that there is no misunderstanding: the rise of the anti-vax movement did not begin with Donald Trump’s foray into American politics. It’s ...