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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
West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

Senate Environment reconciliation provisions pause methane tax

By Valerie Yurk and David Jordan
Posted June 4, 2025 at 7:39pm
Flowers to honor the late Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, D-Va., are seen at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on May 21. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Virginia governor sets Sept. 9 special election to fill Connolly’s seat

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted June 3, 2025 at 11:04am, Updated June 4, 2025 at 6:10pm
Ranking member Rep. Brendan F. Boyle, D-Pa., gives a thumbs down as he speaks during the House Budget Committee markup of the reconciliation bill in the Cannon House Office Building on Friday, May 16, 2025.

16 million lose insurance under budget bill, other policies: CBO

By Sandhya Raman and Jessie Hellmann
Posted June 4, 2025 at 5:27pm
Chairman Sen. Charles E. Grassley, left, and ranking member Sen. Richard J. Durbin arrive Wednesday for Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees.

Senators debate vetting process as judicial confirmation hearings start

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted June 4, 2025 at 2:49pm
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., speaks during a news conference in the Capitol on Wednesday. Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., right, and Rep. Mark Messmer, R-Ind., also appear.

CBO pegs ‘big, beautiful’ bill price tag at $2.4T

By CQ Roll Call Staff
Posted June 4, 2025 at 1:20pm, Updated at 2:33pm
Sean Gallagher, then assistant chief of the Capitol Police, testifies at a House hearing in March 2024. Gallagher was named acting chief after his boss retired, drawing a strong rebuke from the Capitol Police Labor Committee.

Capitol Police union comes out hard against acting Chief Gallagher

By Justin Papp
Posted June 3, 2025 at 6:36pm
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, led the Senate Judiciary joint subcommittee hearing Tuesday on nationwide injunctions.

Senators spar over nationwide injunctions stopping Trump policies

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted June 3, 2025 at 5:40pm
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum at a ceremony in February. The department is asking Congress to use the Land and Water Conservation Fund for maintenance, a purpose not listed in 2020 reauthorizing legislation.

Interior eyes Land and Water Conservation Fund for maintenance

By David Jordan
Posted June 3, 2025 at 5:31pm
Republicans advanced Long's nomination to head the IRS on a party-line vote in committee. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Ex-GOP lawmaker’s IRS nomination advances in Senate

By Caitlin Reilly
Posted June 3, 2025 at 5:30pm
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz speaks at a news conference in Berlin on May 28.

Tariffs, Ukraine war to top agenda as Trump huddles with German chancellor

By John T. Bennett
Posted June 3, 2025 at 3:56pm
Education Secretary Linda McMahon arrives to testify before a Senate subcommittee on the department's fiscal year 2026 budget request on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

TRIO cuts emerge as Education budget sticking point

By Jacob Fulton
Posted June 3, 2025 at 3:42pm
Capitol Police officers wait to board the Senate subway.

Foreign national pleads guilty in connection to ‘swatting’ incidents

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted June 2, 2025 at 5:42pm
Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., speaks to reporters as he leaves the Senate floor in the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, March 13, 2025.

Congressional agencies look for boost amid government downsizing

By Justin Papp
Posted June 2, 2025 at 5:18pm
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., talks with reporters in the U.S. Capitol after the House passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on Thursday, May 22, 2025.

A look at key flashpoints in the coming Senate reconciliation debate

By CQ Roll Call Staff
Posted June 2, 2025 at 3:15pm