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Fire personnel respond to homes destroyed while a helicopter drops water as the Palisades Fire grows in Pacific Palisades, Calif., on Jan. 7, 2025.

Policy

Fact-checking Trump’s blame claims about wildfire response

Trump’s statements on firefighting planes, lack of water in fire hydrants spur pushback from those on the ground

By FactCheck.org
Posted January 13, 2025 at 3:47pm

Michigan Republican Rep. Lisa McClain greets Vice President-elect JD Vance before the Electoral College vote count during a joint session of Congress in the House chamber on Monday.

Politics

Vance resigns from Senate, clearing the way for a GOP replacement

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted January 9, 2025 at 6:23pm
From left, Sen. Patty Murray and Reps. Xavier Becerra and James E. Clyburn address the media outside the Senate Foreign Relations room in the Capitol, where members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, also know as the “super committee,” were holding a meeting in November 2011.

Opinion

‘It’s incredibly hard’ — consider the super committee

By Jason Dick
Posted January 9, 2025 at 6:00am
Sen. Max Baucus is questioned by reporters outside the Senate Foreign Relations room in the Capitol, where members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, also know as the “super committee,” were holding a meeting on Nov. 17, 2011.

Podcasts

So you want to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget

By Jason Dick, Peter Cohn and David Lerman
Posted January 8, 2025 at 4:11pm
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, left, and Speaker Mike Johnson lead the narrowly divided chamber, and the events of the year could influence which of their parties wins the majority in the 2026 midterm elections.

The 2026 midterm elections are just around the corner

By Stuart Rothenberg
Posted January 7, 2025 at 6:00am
Sunrise light hits the Capitol Dome on Thursday as the 119th Congress is set to begin Friday. Republicans will control both chambers and the White House for the first time in eight years.

Editor’s Note: Honeymoon in Washington

By Jason Dick
Posted January 3, 2025 at 6:30am
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has a thin margin of error now and in the coming 119th Congress.

The top political stories, of next year

By Jason Dick and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted December 19, 2024 at 10:58am
A flyer advertising a discussion of the upcoming Trump administration’s immigration policies is displayed on a USC classroom door last month. In the Western United States, the idea of mass deportations goes far beyond the undocumented student population on a college campus, Bellantoni writes.

The many layers of Trump’s immigration policy

By Christina Bellantoni
Posted December 19, 2024 at 6:00am
Andy Kim, D-N.J., takes in John Trumbull’s “Declaration of Independence” painting in the Capitol Rotunda before being sworn in to the Senate on Monday.

Revenge of the Senate

By Jason Dick
Posted December 11, 2024 at 6:57pm
Rioters are seen on a monitor during testimony to the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol hearing in 2022.

Trump says he will look at pardons for Jan. 6 attackers on ‘first day’

By Michael Macagnone
Posted December 9, 2024 at 6:44pm