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Sen. Michael D. Crapo, R-Idaho, talks with reporters in the Capitol after the House passed the "one big, beautiful bill" on May 22.

Delicate balancing act for Senate on reconciliation tax package

By Caitlin Reilly
Posted June 2, 2025 at 12:00pm
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., takes over the action on budget reconciliation from Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., left. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Senators: It’s time to reclaim your relevance

By Steven Pearlstein
Posted June 2, 2025 at 2:16pm, Updated at 7:06am
President Donald Trump speaks during a visit to U.S. Steel - Irvin Works in West Mifflin, Pa., on Friday. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

After first agreeing with Biden, Trump announces US Steel-Nippon deal

By John T. Bennett
Posted May 30, 2025 at 5:00am, Updated at 6:48pm
President Donald Trump is joined by outgoing DOGE head Elon Musk in the Oval Office on Friday.

Three takeaways: Trump and Elon have a long Oval Office goodbye — for now

By John T. Bennett
Posted May 30, 2025 at 4:30pm
A sign with the Foreign Emoluments Clause appears behind Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, a member of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, during a January 2024 news conference in Rayburn Building on a report by committee Democrats on a "multi-year investigation into payments accepted by former President Trump's businesses from foreign governments during his term in office, in violation of the Constitution."

Democrats struggle to check Trump moves on plane, meme coin

By Michael Macagnone
Posted May 30, 2025 at 2:02pm
President Donald Trump, flanked by Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., speaks to reporters before attending the House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on May 20. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Checking the math on White House, GOP claims about ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

By FactCheck.org
Posted May 30, 2025 at 9:59am
Exterior view of the U.S. Court of International Trade in Lower Manhattan, which ruled against tariffs that President Donald Trump has put in place through executive orders.

Appeals court temporarily halts Trump tariff ruling

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted May 29, 2025 at 1:36pm, Updated at 4:04pm
President Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., talk with reporters after a House Republican meeting in the Capitol on May 20. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Trump, GOP prep next chapter in spending cuts agenda

By Paul M. Krawzak and Aidan Quigley
Posted May 29, 2025 at 8:21am
President Donald Trump signs an executive order April 2 after announcing a plan for tariffs on imported goods during an event in the Rose Garden at the White House.

Federal trade court blocks sweeping Trump tariff plan

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted May 28, 2025 at 9:10pm
Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter speaks at a House subcommittee hearing in September 2023. Perlmutter filed a lawsuit last week, after a purge at the Library of Congress.

Judge declines to halt firing of Copyright Office head Shira Perlmutter

By Jim Saksa
Posted May 28, 2025 at 6:39pm
Former Roll Callers Christina Bellantoni and Neda Semnani have been leading their students on a tour of Washington during a time when Congress has been debating significant changes to tax and entitlement laws, such as at the House Rules Committee, shown here last week.

Taking the grand tour of Washington

By Jason Dick, Christina Bellantoni and Neda Semnani
Posted May 27, 2025 at 6:16pm
An elderly man stands near a damaged residential apartment building on Sunday in Mykolaiv, Ukraine. The Russian army attacked the city with kamikaze drones. (Serhii Ovcharyshyn/NikVesti.com/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)

Trump diverts from ‘America First’ as he seeks to end wars, snag foreign dollars

By John T. Bennett
Posted May 27, 2025 at 3:47pm
Joe Biden looks on as Donald Trump arrives for his inauguration ceremony in January. (Saul Loeb/Pool/AFP)

Transcript transparency: How the past three administrations stack up 

By Bill Frischling
Posted May 23, 2025 at 3:52pm
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building in Washington on March 21.

Judge blocks Trump’s efforts to shutter Education Department

By Jacob Fulton
Posted May 22, 2025 at 5:55pm
President Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., talk with reporters after a House Republican Conference meeting on the budget reconciliation bill in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Sweeping budget package passes House after weeks of arm-twisting

By David Lerman and Caitlin Reilly
Posted May 22, 2025 at 7:09am
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, compared putting states in charge of certain national parks to “me putting my kids in charge of the upkeep for the house that I own.” She is shown in the Capitol earlier in May.

Senate panel wary of states managing National Park sites

By David Jordan
Posted May 21, 2025 at 5:05pm
Education Secretary Linda McMahon testifies during the House Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on the Education Department of Education’s proposed budget on Wednesday.

McMahon lays out Education Department ‘final mission’ to House appropriators

By Jacob Fulton
Posted May 21, 2025 at 3:26pm
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.

GOP budget vote goes down to the wire amid conservative pushback

By David Lerman, Aidan Quigley and Caitlin Reilly
Posted May 21, 2025 at 12:13pm, Updated at 1:45pm
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.

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.

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.

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