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Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young testifies during a Senate Budget Committee hearing on the president’s budget request on March 15, 2023.

OMB chief worried about shutdown even as funding talks progress

By Aidan Quigley
Posted January 5, 2024 at 1:21pm
Republican presidential candidate Florida Governor Ron DeSantis greets guests at a campaign rally at the Thunderdome on Dec. 2, 2023 in Newton, Iowa. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis asked the FDA in November 2020 to approve a plan to import drugs to the state from overseas, but delays prompted him to sue the FDA in August 2022 and again in April 2023 over alleged violations of both the Administrative Procedure Act and Freedom of Information Act.

FDA greenlights Florida’s drug importation plan

By Lauren Clason
Posted January 5, 2024 at 11:29am
The Supreme Court building.

US asks Supreme Court to step in on Texas border barrier

By Michael Macagnone
Posted January 2, 2024 at 4:51pm
President Joe Biden at the White House on Dec. 11.

Big pay raise means big tradeoffs under spending stalemate

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted December 28, 2023 at 6:00am
John L. “Jack” Smith, special counsel investigating former President Donald Trump, after making a public statement in June.

Special counsel seeks to limit ‘political’ issues at Trump trial

By Todd Ruger
Posted December 27, 2023 at 12:35pm
Texas Republican Rep. Daniel Crenshaw talks with reporters outside the Capitol. Crenshaw led a legislative push to tie pediatric physician training to gender-affirming care bans but now acknowledges the House needs “to get a bill to the floor.”

Democrats eye appropriations to protect pediatrician training

By Ariel Cohen
Posted December 21, 2023 at 1:46pm
An Amish horse-and-buggy in Lancaster County, Pa., near the town of Bird-in-Hand. In some parts of Pennsylvania Amish country, mobile health units are helping deliver care to the local Amish population.

Spending fights, supply chain delays slow mobile health boom

By Lauren Clason
Posted December 20, 2023 at 3:28pm
An American Eagle plane is seen at Key West International Airport, on Thursday, February 23, 2023.

Senate passes FAA extension until March

By Valerie Yurk
Posted December 19, 2023 at 9:56pm
Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., has held up an aviation extension as leverage to keep senators in town.

Senators to punt on border, fly home after FAA, nominations

By David Lerman
Posted December 19, 2023 at 12:42pm, Updated at 3:50pm
Memphis firefighter Jesse Powell is part of a federal lawsuit claiming exposure to PFAS caused his prostate cancer.

Dangers faced by firefighters compounded by ‘forever chemicals’

By Mike Magner
Posted December 19, 2023 at 6:00am
Martin O’Malley, nominee to be commissioner of the Social Security Administration, is seen in the Capitol on Nov. 28.

O’Malley confirmed as Social Security commissioner

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted December 18, 2023 at 6:13pm
Mike McCord, comptroller of the Defense Department, told House and Senate committees in a letter that funds for Ukraine are nearly exhausted.

Key US fund for Ukraine about to be ‘exhausted’

By John M. Donnelly
Posted December 18, 2023 at 5:44pm
Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows had sought to move the case from state to federal court, arguing a federal law protects executive branch officials acting in the course of their duties.

Appellate court rebuffs Meadows on moving Georgia election case

By Michael Macagnone
Posted December 18, 2023 at 4:53pm
Sen. Christopher S. Murphy, D-Conn., right, and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., conduct a news conference after the Senate luncheons in the Capitol Tuesday.

Senate will be in next week as border talks pick up steam

By David Lerman
Posted December 14, 2023 at 3:35pm
House Armed Services Chairman Mike D. Rogers, left, and ranking member Adam Smith attend the House and Senate committee markup of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2024 in the Dirksen Building on Nov. 29.

House sends final NDAA to Biden’s desk

By John M. Donnelly
Posted December 14, 2023 at 12:35pm
Activists attend a news conference with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus outside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.

Senators look ready to leave town as border talks inch along

By David Lerman
Posted December 13, 2023 at 5:46pm
The Supreme Court building.

Supreme Court to decide issue tied to hundreds of Jan. 6 cases

By Michael Macagnone
Posted December 13, 2023 at 11:35am
Demonstrators are seen on Constitution Avenue in Washington during a march for abortion rights. The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would take up two cases regarding access to mifepristone, a commonly used abortion drug.

Supreme Court to hear abortion pill case

By Sandhya Raman
Posted December 13, 2023 at 11:13am
House Appropriations ranking member Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., sees a shutdown on the horizon.

Window rapidly closing for deal on appropriations framework

By Aidan Quigley
Posted December 13, 2023 at 5:30am
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, and President Joe Biden hold a news conference in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building Tuesday after Zelenskyy met with congressional leaders to make an in-person case for continued military aid.

No deal yet, but border negotiators report progress

By David Lerman and Niels Lesniewski
Posted December 12, 2023 at 8:21pm
Arizona Republican Rep. Andy Biggs is the sponsor of a bill that would block agencies from searching through online data without a warrant.

Congress looks to block US agencies from buying Americans’ data

By Gopal Ratnam
Posted December 12, 2023 at 7:00am
Rep. Nanette Barragán, D-Calif., speaks during the Congressional Hispanic Caucus news conference at House Democrats' 2023 Issues Conference in Baltimore, Md., on March 2.

Hispanic Caucus warns Biden, Democrats on potential border deal

By David Lerman
Posted December 11, 2023 at 1:38pm, Updated at 5:57pm
John L. "Jack" Smith, special counsel investigating former President Donald Trump, delivers a statement in June.

Special counsel takes Trump immunity issue to Supreme Court

By Michael Macagnone
Posted December 11, 2023 at 1:43pm, Updated at 4:10pm
Rep. Mary Peltola

Indigenous peoples’ dissenting views on Arctic drilling fuels debate

By David Jordan
Posted December 11, 2023 at 1:26pm
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg said recent rail investments are the largest since Amtrak was created.

High-speed routes biggest winners in latest rail funding round

By Valerie Yurk
Posted December 8, 2023 at 6:32pm
The E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse in Washington.

Appeals court upholds most of Trump gag order in DC case

By Michael Macagnone
Posted December 8, 2023 at 4:57pm
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, is seen after the Senate luncheons in the Capitol on Nov. 28.

Top Senate appropriators detail full-year stopgap impacts

By Aidan Quigley and Peter Cohn
Posted December 8, 2023 at 5:00am
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, arrives for Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s meeting with senators in the Capitol on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023.

Senators leave town with no deal on border, war supplemental

By David Lerman
Posted December 7, 2023 at 6:19pm
Demonstrators are seen on Constitution Avenue during a march for abortion rights. In the aftermath of the Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision, states are grappling with whether mental health constitutes a medical emergency justifying an exemption to laws banning abortion.

State abortion bans bar exceptions for suicide, mental health

By Sandhya Raman
Posted December 7, 2023 at 7:00am
A dozen people with the Bound4LIFE group stand in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building with red tape over their mouths. While 18 U.S. states have essentially banned abortion for pregnant people facing a mental health crisis, Ireland, which had one of the strictest abortion laws in the European Union until 2018, has protected the right to seek an abortion because of the risk of suicide since 1992.

Ireland allowed mental health abortion exception 30 years ago

By Sandhya Raman
Posted December 7, 2023 at 7:00am