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Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, left, and House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris, R-Md., along with other Freedom Caucus members speak to reporters about the reconciliation bill talks in the Capitol on Wednesday.

Congress

GOP budget vote goes down to the wire amid conservative pushback

Tax deal with moderates chafes Freedom Caucus; conservatives want delay of reconciliation vote

By David Lerman, Aidan Quigley and Caitlin Reilly
Posted May 21, 2025 at 12:13pm

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., arrives to testify during the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing titled "FY2026 Department of Health and Human Services Budget,” in Dirksen building on Wednesday, May 14, 2025.

Policy

Senate appropriators grill Kennedy on biomedical research

By Sandhya Raman
Posted May 20, 2025 at 5:21pm
Secretary of State Marco Rubio prepares to testify during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the State Department fiscal 2026 budget proposal on Tuesday.

Policy

Rubio defends State Department reorganization in Hill testimony

By Mark Satter
Posted May 20, 2025 at 5:20pm
Former Missouri Republican Rep. Billy Long, nominated to be commissioner of the IRS, testifies during his confirmation hearing at the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday.

White House

Trump IRS nominee grilled over ties to fraudulent tax credits

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted May 20, 2025 at 4:23pm
Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Elena Kagan greet President Donald Trump after his address to Congress on March 4. The court has found itself in an increasingly prominent space in a series of cases concerning Trump's administration.

That’s a lot of Supreme Court there

By Jason Dick and Todd Ruger
Posted May 20, 2025 at 4:21pm
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 Tuesday.

Trump doesn’t satisfy GOP holdouts as budget bill talks drag on

By Caitlin Reilly, Lia DeGroot, Jessie Hellmann and Aidan Quigley
Posted May 20, 2025 at 2:16pm
Christina Bellantoni, front, center, led these USC Annenberg students on a trip to Washington in 2023, and is back this week with a different group

Hello, DC! Let’s show these 20-somethings our best this week

By Christina Bellantoni
Posted May 20, 2025 at 6:00am
President Donald Trump, seen on the South Lawn of the White House on May 12, has some strong feelings about Broadway plays. Maybe that's because he helped finance one himself, Wetherbee writes.

Can a musical that flopped on Broadway save PBS?

By Brandon Wetherbee
Posted May 19, 2025 at 2:37pm
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem testifies during a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing this month.

Supreme Court allows US to remove protections for Venezuelans

By Michael Macagnone
Posted May 19, 2025 at 2:34pm
A spokesperson for the Government Accountability Office said it has “declined any requests” to have a team assigned to it from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

DOGE attempt at GAO is ‘intrusion’ into legislative branch, Dems say

By Jim Saksa
Posted May 16, 2025 at 6:29pm, Updated May 19, 2025 at 12:40pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., arrives at the Cannon House Office Building to meet with Republican members of the House Budget Committee before a markup Sunday.

House Budget panel approves reconciliation package on second try

By Aidan Quigley and David Lerman
Posted May 18, 2025 at 10:53pm, Updated May 19, 2025 at 12:16am
Former President Joe Biden, on the South Lawn of the White House in October, has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Joe Biden diagnosed with ‘aggressive form’ of prostate cancer

By Daniela Altimari
Posted May 18, 2025 at 6:26pm
The Supreme Court building in Washington.

Supreme Court rules US tried to deport migrants too quickly

By Michael Macagnone
Posted May 16, 2025 at 4:56pm
A congressional staffer sets up a poster on stage for Texas Republican Rep. Brian Babin’s news conference on the bill dubbed the Birthright Citizenship Act in the Capitol on Jan. 23. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Supreme Court to hear oral arguments over birthright citizenship

By Michael Macagnone
Posted May 14, 2025 at 12:32pm, Updated May 16, 2025 at 11:55am
President Donald Trump arrives on the south lawn of the White House on April 28.

Q&A on Trump’s prescription drug pricing executive order

By FactCheck.org
Posted May 16, 2025 at 11:04am
Chairman Jim Risch, R-Idaho, and ranking member Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., are seen during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Jan. 15.

Senate panel leaders back Trump’s lifting of sanctions on Syria

By Rachel Oswald
Posted May 15, 2025 at 7:05pm
Michigan Rep. Shri Thanedar backed off his push for an impeachment vote Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Trump impeachment effort pulled moments before House vote

By Victor Feldman
Posted May 14, 2025 at 7:00pm
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., is seen in the Capitol on May 8.

Schumer announces holds on Justice Department nominees

By Nina Heller
Posted May 14, 2025 at 11:19am
President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attend a signing ceremony at the Saudi Royal Court on Tuesday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Palestinians face stark uncertainty as Trump tours Middle East

By Rachel Oswald
Posted May 14, 2025 at 11:07am
Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-Calif., seen here last month in Washington, is one of the members of Congress who is not considered vulnerable in the 2026 election cycle, but could find himself in a tough race depending on circumstances.

Call it the Most Not Invulnerable List

By Jason Dick and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted May 13, 2025 at 5:13pm
Donald Trump appears with Todd Blanche, then part of his personal legal team, outside Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan on May 29, 2024.

Trump taps Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche as acting head of Library of Congress

By Justin Papp
Posted May 12, 2025 at 12:50pm, Updated at 7:16pm
An image of President Donald Trump, marking his first 100 days in office, is seen on the Heritage Foundation, next to an Exxon station, on Capitol Hill on May 5. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Trump pivots from populist economic campaign ideas

By John T. Bennett
Posted May 12, 2025 at 4:57pm
President Donald Trump is seen on the South Lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One en route to the Middle East on Monday.

Trump signs order to level US drug prices with other countries

By Lia DeGroot
Posted May 12, 2025 at 1:11pm
Library of Congress head Carla Hayden is seen at an oversight hearing in 2019. She was abruptly fired by the White House on Thursday, sparking calls from some on the Hill to overhaul the appointment process.

Trump fired the Librarian of Congress. Now Dems want to change the hiring process

By Justin Papp
Posted May 9, 2025 at 6:16pm
Jonathan McKernan, the nominee to be director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau who hasn't yet received a Senate floor vote, will be tapped for a Treasury post, the department said.

McKernan, in limbo as CFPB nominee, to get a shot at Treasury

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
Posted May 9, 2025 at 4:55pm, Updated at 5:29pm
Palestinians carry out a search-and-rescue operation Thursday following Israeli attacks on a house in Beit Lahia, Gaza.

Fate of Gaza will hang over Trump’s Middle East swing

By John T. Bennett
Posted May 9, 2025 at 4:49pm
Carla Hayden speaks during a hearing for her confirmation to be librarian of Congress before the Senate Rules and Administration Committee on April 20, 2016.

Fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden in her own words

By Jason Dick
Posted May 9, 2025 at 12:21pm
An image of President Donald Trump, marking his first 100 days in office, is seen on the Heritage Foundation next to an Exxon station on Capitol Hill on May 5.

The possible source of Trump’s false $2 gasoline claim

By FactCheck.org
Posted May 9, 2025 at 10:28am
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, seen here in 2020 at a budget hearing, has served in the role since 2016.

Trump abruptly fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden

By Justin Papp
Posted May 8, 2025 at 10:03pm
North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis speaks to reporters in March as he leaves the Senate floor. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

MAGA world turns to familiar playbook to pressure GOP senator

By John T. Bennett
Posted May 8, 2025 at 4:32pm
FBI Director Kash Patel arrives Thursday at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on the White House budget request for fiscal 2026.

FBI director now says he supports Trump budget proposal

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted May 8, 2025 at 4:10pm
President Donald Trump in his second term has sought to more broadly undermine the judiciary. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Trump pushes back against the judges who rule against him

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted May 8, 2025 at 5:30am
FBI Director Kash Patel arrives Wednesday at the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies hearing on the fiscal 2026 budget request.

FBI director working to avoid proposed White House cuts

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted May 7, 2025 at 6:44pm
Casey Means speaks at a health and nutrition roundtable discussion held by Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson on Sept. 23, 2024. (Screenshot/Office of Sen. Johnson)

Trump drops surgeon general pick, taps influencer for job

By Lia DeGroot
Posted May 7, 2025 at 6:18pm