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Attendees stand Thursday as President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive on the Truman Balcony during the annual Congressional Picnic on the South Lawn of the White House.

White House

‘Israel is in charge’: Netanyahu made sure Trump’s Iran diplomacy was no picnic

Goal of strikes on Iran was to ‘destroy diplomacy,’ Democratic senator says

By John T. Bennett
Posted June 13, 2025 at 2:37pm

Rescue teams work at damaged buildings in Nobonyad Square following Israeli airstrikes Friday in Tehran, Iran.

Policy

Covert actions key to Israel’s strikes on Iran: Mossad

By Briana Reilly
Posted June 13, 2025 at 12:37pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., conducts a news conference at the RNC after a meeting of the House Republican Conference on Tuesday.

Policy

Walz and Johnson make misleading claims about bill’s impact on SNAP

By FactCheck.org
Posted June 13, 2025 at 7:00am
Rep. Nick LaLota, R-N.Y., seen here on May 15, was one of the Republicans who originally cast a "no" vote on the rescissions bill, but switched to vote in favor.

Congress

First GOP rescissions package narrowly passes the House

By Rachel Oswald
Posted June 12, 2025 at 9:26pm
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, center, has been seen as adopting a more conciliatory approach during President Donald Trump's second term. She is shown at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Mamie "Peanut" Johnson Plaza on June 2.

House passes bill that would void DC ‘sanctuary’ policies

By Jim Saksa
Posted June 12, 2025 at 6:00pm
An overdue plaque is the subject of a new lawsuit, as officers who were at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, argue they should be honored like others who have protected Congress in the past.

As officers sue over Jan. 6 plaque, Democrats hang replicas 

By Justin Papp
Posted June 12, 2025 at 4:59pm
Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., is pushed out of the room as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem holds a news conference Thursday in Los Angeles.

Sen. Alex Padilla forcibly removed from Noem press conference

By Michael Macagnone
Posted June 12, 2025 at 3:47pm, Updated at 4:43pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks at a news conference on June 4, flanked by House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., left, and Rep. Mark Messmer, R-Ind. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

CBO: GOP budget bill would take from the poor, give to the rich

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted June 12, 2025 at 2:58pm, Updated at 3:43pm
Former Rep. Billy Long testifies during his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing on Tuesday, May 20, 2025.

Ex-Rep. Long confirmed as Trump’s IRS commissioner

By David Lerman
Posted June 12, 2025 at 1:41pm
President Donald Trump arrives at the White House from Camp David on Monday.

Appeals court extends pause on ruling that blocked Trump tariffs

By Michael Macagnone
Posted June 11, 2025 at 3:40pm
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth arrives for the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee hearing in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Hegseth gets bipartisan pushback for defense spending strategy

By Caroline Coudriet
Posted June 11, 2025 at 3:30pm
Bryan Bedford, nominee to be Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, testifies during his confirmation hearing in the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee in the Russell Senate Office Building on Wednesday, June 11, 2025.

FAA nominee Bedford defends pilot training rule position

By Valerie Yurk
Posted June 11, 2025 at 3:02pm
Workers on Tuesday set up a reviewing stand near the White House for President Donald Trump’s military parade, slated for Saturday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Trump wants tanks ‘all over the place’ at parade; Democrats see ‘egotistical’ show

By John T. Bennett
Posted June 11, 2025 at 3:02pm
Republican Rep. August Pfluger of Texas sponsored a bill, which the House passed Tuesday, aiming to overturn a local D.C. law that allows noncitizens to vote in local elections.

House passes pair of bills in rebuke to DC

By Jim Saksa
Posted June 10, 2025 at 7:07pm
Customs and Border Protection officers and the California National Guard are seen staged Monday in front of the federal building in Los Angeles as protesters begin to rally on the fourth day of protests.

Trump mulls rare use of Insurrection Act over Los Angeles protests

By Michael Macagnone
Posted June 10, 2025 at 6:02pm
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth arrives for the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee hearing in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Democrats clash with Hegseth over Guard deployment, shipbuilding

By Briana Reilly
Posted June 10, 2025 at 4:39pm
An activist with Save Our Care brings tombstone cutouts to the office of Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst to highlight her comments at a recent town hall on the Republican budget proposal.

It’s déjà tea party all over again

By Jason Dick and Jim Saksa
Posted June 10, 2025 at 3:28pm
Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., arrives for a vote in the Capitol on May 13.

Parties split on deploying troops against California protesters

By John M. Donnelly
Posted June 9, 2025 at 9:20pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., flanked by House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., and Rep. Mark Messmer, R-Ind., conducts a news conference on June 4. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

House considers Trump cuts as Senate Republicans work on reconciliation bill

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted June 9, 2025 at 6:30am, Updated at 9:15pm
Tennessee Rep. Mark Green will resign later this year.

Tennessee Rep. Mark Green will resign after next budget vote

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted June 9, 2025 at 7:52pm
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, seen here in January, recently presented a supplemental budget to deal with an unexpected cut from Congress. Now House Republicans aim to tee up three D.C.-related measures for floor action.

House eyes cuts to DC’s autonomy as local budget fix gathers dust

By Jim Saksa
Posted June 9, 2025 at 3:30pm, Updated at 6:21pm
ICE officers and California National Guard troops confront protesters outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles on Sunday. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Trump tests support for immigration policies with troop deployment in LA

By John T. Bennett
Posted June 9, 2025 at 5:27pm, Updated at 6:03pm
Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., walks though the Capitol after a vote on Tuesday, June 3, 2025.

In the Spotlight: Roger Wicker

By Nick Eskow
Posted June 9, 2025 at 11:41am, Updated at 4:03pm
Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., walks to the Senate subway after a vote in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, May 14, 2025.

Senate Banking would zero out CFPB funding in reconciliation

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
Posted June 9, 2025 at 3:28pm
“Our country deserves high-speed rail that makes us proud — not boondoggle trains to nowhere," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a statement.

With high-speed rail stuck in the station, Brightline still moving

By Valerie Yurk
Posted June 9, 2025 at 9:35am
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., makes his way to a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building.

Revamped Senate AI provision faces quick opposition

By Jacob Fulton
Posted June 6, 2025 at 6:38pm
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was among the Trump officials cited in a court filing from states challenging the Trump administration tariffs.

Tariffs challengers cite Trump administration officials’ own words

By Michael Macagnone
Posted June 6, 2025 at 4:15pm
The Department of Justice building in Washington.

White House seeks to diminish Office on Violence Against Women

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted June 6, 2025 at 2:27pm
Tea party groups gather in Washington on Sept. 12, 2009, to march against Democrats’ health care overhaul. Some former members of Congress see “direct parallels” between then and now.

‘Eerie similarities’: Dems tea partied in 2010 say today’s GOP faces own reckoning 

By Jim Saksa
Posted June 6, 2025 at 2:26pm
President Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and House Republican Conference Chair Lisa McClain, R-Mich., talk with reporters before a House Republican Conference meeting on the budget reconciliation bill in the Capitol on May 20.

Explaining Trump’s claim of a ‘68 percent’ tax increase

By FactCheck.org
Posted June 6, 2025 at 1:36pm
"I think anything we can do that's waste, fraud and abuse are open to discussions," Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said when asked if Medicare cuts are on the table. Above, Thune appears at a news conference in the Capitol Tuesday.

Medicare cuts in play as Senate GOP hones budget bill

By Jessie Hellmann, Sandhya Raman and Caitlin Reilly
Posted June 5, 2025 at 9:10pm
Senate Commerce Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, seen at a panel hearing in January, has said he will unveil his own AI regulation moratorium legislation. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

AI regulation moratorium dropped in Senate budget package

By Jacob Fulton
Posted June 5, 2025 at 8:22pm
With a bust of President Abraham Lincoln between them, Elon Musk speaks to reporters in the Oval Office on May 30 as President Donald Trump looks on. (Tom Brenner/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump-Musk alliance ends with personal attacks, threats to end federal contracts

By John T. Bennett
Posted June 5, 2025 at 6:14pm
Michael Sullivan is a veteran of the Phoenix and Baltimore police departments. Above, he speaks at a public safety press conference ahead of Super Bowl LVII in 2023 during his time with the Phoenix Police Department.

Michael Sullivan named chief of Capitol Police

By Justin Papp
Posted June 4, 2025 at 7:48pm