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Rep. Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., talks with reporters outside the Capitol Hill Club after a meeting of the House Republican Conference on March 4.

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States’ Medicaid directed payments targeted for potential cuts

House Republicans are continuing to weigh how to find the cuts to pay for President Donald Trump's legislative priorities

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted April 30, 2025 at 6:09pm

House Transportation and Infrastructure Chair Sam Graves, R-Mo., left said the panel's approval of an electric vehicle fee Wednesday would start the move away from the gas tax.

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House Transportation advances reconciliation plan; focus on EV fee

By Valerie Yurk
Posted April 30, 2025 at 6:01pm
House Oversight Chair James R. Comer led Republicans in advancing a chunk of a budget reconciliation package that would make several changes to benefits for federal employees.

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Oversight panel endorses cuts to federal retirement system

By Jim Saksa
Posted April 30, 2025 at 5:47pm
Sens. Maria Cantwell and Todd Young attend a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Feb. 9, 2023.

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Low-income housing credit bill back in the mix for tax package

By Caitlin Reilly
Posted April 29, 2025 at 12:17pm, Updated April 30, 2025 at 5:16pm
Rep. Tom Suozzi came back to Congress in February 2024 after winning a special election to reclaim his old seat. Now he wants Democrats to get back to basics.

Don’t call it a comeback — Tom Suozzi’s been here for years

By Jim Saksa
Posted April 30, 2025 at 2:25pm
From left, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, talk as they arrive for a vote in the Capitol on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Collins urges reversal of Trump’s biomedical research clawbacks

By Lia DeGroot
Posted April 30, 2025 at 1:45pm
So far in his second term, President Donald Trump has taken several executive actions related to elections and voting.

100 days in, Trump’s moves to overhaul election law get pushback from courts, Democrats

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted April 29, 2025 at 12:39pm, Updated April 30, 2025 at 10:55am
President Donald Trump has seen his poll numbers decline a little over three months into his second term, Rothenberg writes.

Remember when Democrats couldn’t win?

By Stuart Rothenberg
Posted April 29, 2025 at 4:35pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, left, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune hold a news conference earlier this month on adopting a partisan budget resolution. Pearlstein suggests that the parties haven’t learned from the recent political past.

Congress can do better than a ‘big, beautiful,’ hyper-partisan bill

By Steven Pearlstein
Posted April 29, 2025 at 6:00am
Democratic Rep. Angie Craig is running for Senate in Minnesota. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Minnesota Rep. Angie Craig announces campaign for Senate

By Daniela Altimari and Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted April 29, 2025 at 5:55am
Virginia Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, seen at a news conference in February, is not running for reelection. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Rep. Connolly won’t seek reelection and will step down from Oversight panel perch

By Daniela Altimari
Posted April 28, 2025 at 1:29pm, Updated at 4:57pm
President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House on April 23. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump’s first 100 days offer blueprint for future presidents to evade Congress

By John T. Bennett
Posted April 28, 2025 at 3:15pm
President Donald Trump speaks to the press after arriving on the South Lawn of the White House on Sunday.

This week: Trump to huddle with speaker before reconciliation markups begin

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted April 28, 2025 at 6:17am
Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., leaves the Capitol after the House voted to expel him from Congress in December 2023.

Former Rep. George Santos sentenced to 87 months in prison

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted April 25, 2025 at 1:54pm
Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., arrives to chair a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in 2022 on protecting election workers.

Durbin’s run at Judiciary Committee focused on immigration, judges

By Chris Johnson, Michael Macagnone and Ryan Tarinelli
Posted April 23, 2025 at 2:33pm
Illinois Sen. Richard J. Durbin will not seek reelection next year.

Durbin announces retirement, capping off decadeslong career in Congress

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted April 23, 2025 at 11:48am, Updated at 1:08pm
Aides to former top tax writers like ex-Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, are in demand as lobbying heats up. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

First-quarter tax lobbying bonanza as reconciliation beckons

By Caitlin Reilly
Posted April 23, 2025 at 8:31am
E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse in Washington.

US urges appeals court to allow military transgender ban

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted April 22, 2025 at 3:57pm
Michigan Rep. Haley Stevens is running for Senate.

Rep. Haley Stevens joins Senate race in Michigan

By Niels Lesniewski and Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted April 22, 2025 at 6:14am
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, D-N.Y., at the "Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here" rally at Gloria Molina Grand Park in Los Angeles on April 12.

The Bernie Sanders tour puts California GOP on notice

By Christina Bellantoni
Posted April 22, 2025 at 6:00am
Nadine Menendez, wife of former Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., leaves Manhattan federal court Monday after her trial.

Wife of ex-Sen. Bob Menendez found guilty in corruption case

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted April 21, 2025 at 6:10pm
Pope Francis, who died Monday, addressed a joint meeting of Congress on Sept. 24, 2015.

Pope Francis, first pontiff to address Congress, dies on Easter Monday

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted April 21, 2025 at 5:19am
A man waits to initiate the balloon drop as then-former President Donald Trump delivers his acceptance speech during the final night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 18, 2024.

In politics, like in life, nothing lasts forever

By Jason Dick
Posted April 18, 2025 at 12:19pm
The Supreme Court building is seen at sunrise.

Supreme Court to hear arguments over preventive care task force

By Michael Macagnone
Posted April 18, 2025 at 10:29am
President Donald Trump meets with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni over lunch in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Thursday.

Trump puts Italy’s Meloni in high-pressure role as bridge to EU on tariffs

By John T. Bennett
Posted April 17, 2025 at 4:23pm
Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., speaks with reporters in the Capitol in Washington last year.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen trip seeks return of migrant deported in error

By Chris Johnson
Posted April 16, 2025 at 12:57pm
Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., made a rare joint appearance with House leaders to show support for a full-year continuing resolution.

Fiscal hawks show a change of heart toward spending bills

By Aidan Quigley
Posted April 16, 2025 at 5:00am
President Donald Trump attends a White House ceremony Monday with the national champion Ohio State University football team.

Trump has ‘do what we want’ mindset as 100th day in office nears

By John T. Bennett
Posted April 15, 2025 at 3:56pm
Reps. John LaFalce, D-N.Y., right, and Mike Oxley, R-Ohio, at a committee hearing in 2001.

John LaFalce, New York Democrat who shaped financial legislation, dies at 85

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
Posted April 15, 2025 at 3:43pm
Republicans are hoping Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp runs for Senate next year. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Senate Republicans rely on different type of candidate to hold majority in 2026

By Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted April 15, 2025 at 1:53pm
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., talks with reporters in the Russell Senate Office Building before a Senate vote on Feb. 19.

Hawley’s change of heart reflects evolving politics of Medicaid

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted April 15, 2025 at 7:00am
A line of storms moves over the Capitol earlier this year. Advocacy groups are crying foul over a delay in reconstituting the House’s independent ethics office.

‘Nothing but a pattern’: Ethics advocates alarmed by delay for House watchdog

By Justin Papp
Posted April 14, 2025 at 3:23pm
The recent marathon floor speech by Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., is the sort of messaging that reaches people, Bradford Fitch writes.

Democrats need to rewrite their opposition playbook

By Bradford Fitch
Posted April 14, 2025 at 11:50am
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters Wednesday during a photo-op at the White House with professional auto racing champions.

Gut instincts guide Trump through a fast-paced second term

By John T. Bennett
Posted April 11, 2025 at 3:13pm