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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.

Opinion

The Bernie Sanders tour puts California GOP on notice

Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez keep focus on 2026 midterms

By Christina Bellantoni
Posted April 22, 2025 at 6:00am

Heard on the Hill

Capitol Lens | Mr. Smith goes to the Easter Egg Roll

By Tom Williams
Posted April 21, 2025 at 3:08pm
Jonathan McKernan, nominated to be permanent director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, testifies during his Senate confirmation hearing on Feb. 27. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

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Judge blocks latest attempt to slash CFPB

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
Posted April 18, 2025 at 3:56pm, Updated at 5:13pm
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.

Podcasts

In politics, like in life, nothing lasts forever

By Jason Dick
Posted April 18, 2025 at 12:19pm
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
Washington state Attorney General Nick Brown speaks to reporters in Seattle after a federal judge blocked President Donald Trump's attempt to end birthright citizenship on Feb. 6. (Jason Redmond/AFP via Getty Images)

Supreme Court to review Trump birthright citizenship order

By Michael Macagnone
Posted April 17, 2025 at 3:27pm
The E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse in Washington.

Judge starts contempt of court process over US immigration moves

By Chris Johnson
Posted April 16, 2025 at 3:53pm
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., conducts a news conference on autism at the Hubert Humphrey Building in Washington on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

HHS to look at environmental toxins as cause of autism

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted April 16, 2025 at 3:06pm
President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on Jan. 20.

Judge orders US to resume grants awarded under Biden-era laws

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted April 16, 2025 at 2:03pm
Members of the U.S. military stand in front of the border wall along the U.S. and Mexico border near San Ysidro last month, part of Trump administration efforts to stop the flow of migrants from entering the U.S.

Judge blocks US from cutting short Biden-era immigration status

By Chris Johnson
Posted April 15, 2025 at 1:28pm, Updated at 4:24pm
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
President Donald Trump attends the UFC 314 event alongside UFC President and CEO Dana White at Kaseya Center on Friday in Miami. (Jeff Bottari/Zuffa via Getty Images)

After UFC appearance, don’t expect Trump at WrestleMania

By Brandon Wetherbee
Posted April 15, 2025 at 1:08pm
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
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, center, seen here at last year's Democratic National Convention in Chicago, is helping set the tone for his state's approach to President Donald Trump's second term.

Golden State meets ‘Golden Age’

By Jason Dick and Christina Bellantoni
Posted April 11, 2025 at 8:39am
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., left, appears with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and President Donald Trump at a Cabinet meeting in the White House on Thursday. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

Kennedy pledges to find autism cause by September

By Sandhya Raman
Posted April 10, 2025 at 5:00pm
Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter chairs the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee.

Congress now faces an $880 billion Medicaid question

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted April 10, 2025 at 4:56pm
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., right, and Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., hold a news conference on the revised budget resolution on Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

House OKs budget blueprint after GOP leaders’ cuts pledge

By David Lerman, Caitlin Reilly and Aidan Quigley
Posted April 10, 2025 at 9:34am, Updated at 1:16pm
House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith, R-Mo., defended President Donald Trump's aggressive trade policy Wednesday just as he was abandoning it.

As Republicans defend trade agenda, Trump changes course

By Olivia M. Bridges
Posted April 9, 2025 at 8:17pm
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., introduced the bill to curtail nationwide injunctions.

House passes bill to limit nationwide injunctions

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted April 9, 2025 at 8:14pm
Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., ranking member of the Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, speaks on Wedneday outside the Department of the Health and Human Services after requesting a meeting with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Also appearing are, from left, Reps. Maxine Dexter, D-Ore., Kathy Castor, D-Fla., Troy Carter, D-La., Marc Veasey, D-Texas, Lori Trahan, D-Mass., Lizzie Fletcher, D-Texas, Raul Ruiz, D-Calif., and Nanette Barragán, D-Calif. Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Ill., also attended.

As Kennedy tours West, frustrated Democrats demand meeting

By Lia DeGroot
Posted April 9, 2025 at 2:57pm
Republicans can't expect to maintain control of Washington without strong turnout from supporters of President Donald Trump, Gonzales writes. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Trump’s tariff policies complicate Republicans’ turnout dilemma

By Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted April 9, 2025 at 11:49am, Updated at 2:51pm
President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the East Room of the White House on Tuesday to boost domestic coal mining and production.

Trump executive order on coal aims to boost mining, retain plants

By David Jordan
Posted April 8, 2025 at 6:28pm
President Donald Trump arrives Tuesday to sign an executive order in the East Room of the White House.

Groups start anew in legal challenge to Trump immigration move

By Chris Johnson
Posted April 8, 2025 at 4:58pm
President Donald Trump announces his tariff plan during an April 2 event at the White House Rose Garden.

How two veteran lawmakers sum up parties’ views on Trump’s economic agenda

By John T. Bennett
Posted April 8, 2025 at 3:51pm
Thousands of protesters gather for the Hands Off rally around the Washington Monument on Saturday.

Supreme Court halts lower court order to rehire at six agencies

By Michael Macagnone
Posted April 8, 2025 at 1:24pm
The Department of Justice headquarters in Washington.

Nonprofits in limbo as DOJ deletes domestic violence grant notice

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted April 7, 2025 at 5:55pm, Updated at 11:48pm
President Donald Trump speaks Monday in the Oval Office as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu listens. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Trump open to tariff talks but warns of locking some countries out of US market

By John T. Bennett
Posted April 7, 2025 at 5:49pm, Updated at 8:01pm
Thousands of protesters gather for the Hands Off rally on the National Mall in Washington on Saturday. Hands Off organized a nationwide mobilization of protests against the Trump administration.

Team Trump stumbles in Wisconsin and beyond

By Stuart Rothenberg
Posted April 7, 2025 at 3:15pm
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., walks through the Senate Reception Room in the Capitol on March 11.

Senate Republicans get ready to roll on revised budget

By David Lerman and Caitlin Reilly
Posted April 2, 2025 at 6:01pm, Updated April 7, 2025 at 2:45pm
Signs point the way to measles testing in the parking lot of the Seminole Hospital District across from Wigwam Stadium on Feb. 27 in Seminole, Texas.

Amid measles outbreak, Trump pulls funding for vaccines

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted April 4, 2025 at 11:14am, Updated April 7, 2025 at 1:41pm
The E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse in Washington.

Appeals court reinstates board members Trump fired

By Michael Macagnone
Posted April 7, 2025 at 12:01pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., arrives for a House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on April 1.

House GOP won’t be jammed by Senate on budget, leaders pledge

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted April 5, 2025 at 3:23pm
National Security Agency director Gen. Timothy Haugh testifies during a Senate Select Intelligence Committee hearing on March 25.

Democrats criticize Trump’s firing of National Security Agency director

By Briana Reilly
Posted April 4, 2025 at 3:52pm