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New York state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, center, celebrates at an election night gathering in Queens on Tuesday. He is flanked by his wife, Rama Duwaji, second from right, and his parents, director Mira Nair and Columbia professor Mahmood Mamdani.

Campaigns

Democrats search for lessons after Mamdani’s apparent win in New York City

Republicans are already linking the likely nominee to battleground Democrats

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted June 25, 2025 at 7:06pm

The past two months have brought uncertainty for the Library of Congress, after the president fired two leaders there and now as House GOP appropriators float a spending cut. Above, visitors take pictures in the main reading room of the Thomas Jefferson Building in 2023.

Congress

Fresh off Trump firings, Library of Congress stares down a proposed budget cut

By Justin Papp
Posted June 25, 2025 at 4:44pm, Updated at 5:21pm
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on June 18.

Congress

Republicans aim to revive Texas wins in sweeping budget package

By Peter Cohn
Posted June 25, 2025 at 4:10pm
President Donald Trump arrives to South Lawn of the White House from Camp David on Monday, June 9, 2025.

Heard on the Hill

F-bombs left and right; in Congress? Oh, quite

By Jim Saksa
Posted June 25, 2025 at 5:09pm
U.S. Capitol Police arrest protesting members of American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT) in the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building on Tuesday. The protesters chanted “no cuts to Medicaid” while being arrested.

Podcasts

A short history of hoping people will change their minds

By Jason Dick and Jessica Wehrman
Posted June 25, 2025 at 4:16pm
Massachusetts Rep. Silvio Conte sits in his red car named “The Judge” outside of the Capitol in 1989.

Capitol Lens | It’s been a Hill of a ride, so far

By Chris Hale
Posted June 18, 2025 at 6:30am, Updated June 25, 2025 at 6:24pm
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. greets Iowa Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks before a House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee hearing on Tuesday.

CDC’s overhauled vaccine panel presses on despite concerns

By Lia DeGroot
Posted June 25, 2025 at 3:56pm

Transcripts of presidential remarks and congressional hearings within 60 minutes

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted June 13, 2025 at 3:33pm
Susan Monarez, nominee to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testifies during her confirmation hearing on Wednesday.

CDC nominee deflects questions over Kennedy’s vaccine decisions

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted June 25, 2025 at 3:46pm
Attorney General Pamela Bondi testifies about the Justice Department's proposed budget Wednesday during a Senate Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Subcommittee hearing.

Senators air concerns about DOJ budget proposal

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted June 25, 2025 at 2:53pm
Emil Bove, nominated to be on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, is sworn in at his confirmation hearing Wednesday in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is seen seated to the left.

Former Trump attorney faces contentious hearing on judicial bid

By Michael Macagnone
Posted June 25, 2025 at 2:28pm

Track and shape policy faster than ever.

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted January 15, 2025 at 11:59am
Michelle Dorothy, left, and A. Brooke Bennett have decades of combined experience on the Hill. The two chiefs of staff lead offices on different sides of the aisle, but both cite mentorship as key.

What makes a good chief of staff? Be a leader, not just in charge

By Bradford Fitch
Posted June 25, 2025 at 2:01pm
President Donald Trump listens as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, second from right, addresses reporters Wednesday at the NATO summit. Also pictured are Secretary of State Marco Rubio, second from left, and U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool/Getty Images)

Takeaways: Defiant Team Trump defends Iran strikes at NATO summit

By John T. Bennett and Niels Lesniewski
Posted June 25, 2025 at 1:22pm
Former Massachusetts Republican Sen. Scott P. Brown is making another bid for Senate, for the second time in New Hampshire.

Scott Brown makes another Senate bid in New Hampshire

By Mary Ellen McIntire and Niels Lesniewski
Posted June 25, 2025 at 11:22am

Read the latest issue

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted March 23, 2020 at 11:36am
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine discusses the mission details of a strike on Iran during a news conference at the Pentagon on June 22. The Trump administration abruptly postponed intelligence briefings for lawmakers that had been expected on Tuesday. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Democrats seek Iran intel as doubts grow over strikes’ effectiveness

By Rachel Oswald
Posted June 25, 2025 at 6:13am
President Donald Trump delivered a positive outcome for the United States and the rest of the world, Winston writes. So why aren’t Democrats on board?

The world is safer, but some Democrats want impeachment

By David Winston
Posted June 24, 2025 at 6:33pm
Speaker Mike Johnson conducts a news conference in the Capitol after a House Republican Conference meeting on Tuesday.

GOP weighs canceling recess to wrap up Trump’s budget bill

By Aidan Quigley, Caitlin Reilly and David Lerman
Posted June 24, 2025 at 1:56pm, Updated at 4:59pm
Emil Bove, Donald Trump's defense attorney at the time, appears in Manhattan criminal court in May 2024 with the then-former president for Trump's hush-money trial.

Emil Bove faces new accusation ahead of confirmation hearing

By Michael Macagnone
Posted June 24, 2025 at 4:02pm
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan says Republicans are comfortable “making sure there is security” for federal courts.

Federal judge stresses need for more court security funding

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted June 24, 2025 at 3:01pm
Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., defeated Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., in a closely watched contest for the top Democratic slot on the Oversight Committee.

Robert Garcia wins top Democratic spot on Oversight panel

By Jim Saksa
Posted June 24, 2025 at 12:33pm, Updated at 1:38pm
“Three years in, it’s clear that the heartbreak and damage being caused by Republicans’ war on abortion is only growing, but so is the public opposition,” says Washington Democratic Sen. Patty Murray.

On Dobbs anniversary, Dems note GOP bill’s abortion entanglements

By Lia DeGroot
Posted June 24, 2025 at 1:16pm
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters Tuesday from the South Lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

Dropping F-bomb, Trump heads to NATO summit angry with Israel and Iran

By John T. Bennett
Posted June 24, 2025 at 11:41am
President Donald Trump arrives at the White House from Camp David on June 9. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Trump’s Iran strike follows pattern of presidents asserting authority

By Michael Macagnone
Posted June 24, 2025 at 10:35am

Capitol Ink | War powers crypt

By R.J. Matson
Posted June 24, 2025 at 7:00am
Members of the Roll Call softball team circa 2003.

‘Sold!’ There was no way to say no to Roll Call

By Brody Mullins
Posted June 24, 2025 at 6:00am
House Appropriations ranking member Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., seen here on June 12, said, “It’s astonishing that for all the talk about finding and rooting out waste, fraud and abuse, House Republicans would defund the watchdog that is tasked with precisely that role.”

House subcommittee advances Legislative Branch spending bill

By Justin Papp
Posted June 23, 2025 at 9:29pm
Attorney General Pamela Bondi arrives to testify at the House Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations panel hearing on Monday.

Bondi defends Justice Department proposal to end standalone ATF

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted June 23, 2025 at 6:50pm
Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur, here at an event in Toledo last year, is the longest-serving woman in congressional history. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Longest-serving woman in Congress says she’s not stopping anytime soon

By Daniela Altimari
Posted June 23, 2025 at 6:47pm
The Discovery shuttle is seen at the National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center on Aug. 20, 2019, in Chantilly, Va., during a meeting of the National Space Council.

Houston, we still have a problem: Shuttle move blocked by ‘Byrd rule’

By Peter Cohn
Posted June 23, 2025 at 3:43pm, Updated at 5:54pm
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz hold a news conference at HHS headquarters on Monday. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Major insurers pledge to improve preauthorization

By Sandhya Raman
Posted June 23, 2025 at 5:10pm
FBI agents huddle in a Green Isle, Minn., neighborhood on June 15, as law enforcement agencies searched for a suspect in the killing of state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband. The slayings have resurfaced debates about lawmakers’ online footprints.

Worried about political violence, some want to scrub home addresses

By Jim Saksa
Posted June 23, 2025 at 4:58pm
Senate Budget Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., right, and ranking member Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., attend the markup of the fiscal 2025 Senate budget resolution on Feb. 12. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Injunction, immigration provisions caught in ‘Byrd rule’ review

By Ryan Tarinelli and Chris Johnson
Posted June 23, 2025 at 4:39pm
President Donald Trump, flanked, from left, by Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, addresses the nation from the White House on Saturday. (Carlos Barria - Pool/Getty Images)

Trump’s Iran strikes put potential heirs Vance and Rubio in spotlight

By John T. Bennett
Posted June 23, 2025 at 3:48pm, Updated at 4:37pm

Capitol Lens | The masked ringer

By Bill Clark
Posted June 23, 2025 at 1:36pm
Head to head? If President Donald Trump, right, seen here at his 2017 inauguration with President Barack Obama, runs for a third term, maybe Obama should threaten to do the same, Wetherbee writes.

If Trump runs for third term, why not Obama?

By Brandon Wetherbee
Posted June 23, 2025 at 1:33pm

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