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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., talks with reporters in the Capitol on Jan. 29.

Policy

White House, Democrats negotiate as shutdown deadline nears

As Friday DHS funding deadline approaches, Senate Democrats, Trump wrangle over details

By Savannah Behrmann and Chris Johnson
Posted February 9, 2026 at 8:51pm, Updated February 10, 2026 at 10:39pm

House Rules Chairwoman Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., said the provision would give the Supreme Court time to weigh in on the president's tariffs.

Congress

House Rules Committee moves to protect Trump’s tariffs from congressional disapproval

By Olivia M. Bridges
Posted February 10, 2026 at 4:10am
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, set up a hearing Thursday with U.S. immigration enforcement officials.

Congress

Congress set to drill down on immigration enforcement at hearings

By Michael Macagnone
Posted February 9, 2026 at 3:25pm
Steve Bannon, former adviser to President Donald Trump, addresses the media outside federal court in Washington in 2022 after being sentenced to four months in prison for defying a congressional subpoena.

White House

US moves to wipe out Stephen Bannon contempt of Congress case

By Michael Macagnone
Posted February 9, 2026 at 5:24pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., swears in the 119th Congress in the House chamber on Jan. 3, 2025. Since then, six new members have joined to fill vacancies left behind by deaths and resignations.

Heard on the Hill

Special election winners on starting in the middle

By Jackie Wang
Posted February 9, 2026 at 4:53pm

Capitol Lens | Virtual deposition

By Bill Clark
Posted February 9, 2026 at 3:13pm
President Donald Trump walks into the White House on Sunday night after returning from a weekend in South Florida. (Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump shrugs off racist meme posting amid rare wave of GOP criticism

By John T. Bennett
Posted February 9, 2026 at 12:56pm

2026 State of Government Affairs

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted February 4, 2026 at 12:15pm
Alabama Sen. Katie Britt leaves the Senate Republican lunch meeting in the Capitol on Nov. 19, 2025. Britt has the most earmarks at stake in the Homeland Security bill.

FEMA earmarks threatened by immigration funding standoff

By Aidan Quigley and Aris Folley
Posted February 9, 2026 at 12:42pm
Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., leaves the Republican Senate luncheon in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, July 22, 2025.

Trump’s drug pricing plan gets lukewarm reception

By Lia DeGroot
Posted February 9, 2026 at 11:30am
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., last week laid out Democrats' demands for changes to immigration enforcement policies as part of Homeland Security Department funding, which expires this week. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

This week: DHS faces possible shutdown ahead of congressional recess

By Niels Lesniewski and Valerie Yurk
Posted February 9, 2026 at 6:15am

Read the latest issue

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted March 23, 2020 at 11:36am
Analilia Mejia, pictured here at a news conference outside the Capitol in 2023, is locked in a close race with former Rep. Tom Malinowski in the Democratic primary for the special election for New Jersey's 11th District.

Analilia Mejia clings to narrow lead in New Jersey special election primary

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted February 6, 2026 at 5:05pm, Updated at 7:45pm
Lawmakers and members of the press are seen at the Washington Press Club Foundation’s 80th Annual Congressional Dinner on Wednesday night at the Capitol Hilton.

Pressed for time — Congressional Hits and Misses

By Chris Hale
Posted February 6, 2026 at 5:47pm
Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., chairs the House panel that plans to take up a bill that would revamp FirstNet.

First-responders network faced with calls for change

By Allison Mollenkamp
Posted February 6, 2026 at 4:53pm
President Donald Trump speaks during a TrumpRx event in the White House's South Court Auditorium on Thursday evening.

Count the qualifiers: Trump’s week became another presidential talk-a-thon

By John T. Bennett
Posted February 6, 2026 at 4:51pm
Chairman Mark Amodei attends a House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building on May 6, 2025.

Mark Amodei, a senior GOP appropriator, to retire at end of term

By Aidan Quigley
Posted February 6, 2026 at 3:35pm
The proposed Virginia map targets the districts of Republican Reps. Rob Wittman, left, Jen Kiggans and John McGuire.

Proposed Virginia map would help Democrats flip up to four House seats

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted February 6, 2026 at 1:26pm
Ranking member Jeanne Shaheen, left, and Chairman Jim Risch, right, look on as Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrives for a Senate Foreign Relations hearing about Venezuela on Jan. 28. Rubio also discussed U.S. policy toward Cuba, which Bruce Stokes writes is fraught with risk.

Regime change in Cuba? Careful what you ask for

By Bruce Stokes
Posted February 6, 2026 at 1:21pm

Capitol Ink | Celebrity sighting

By R.J. Matson
Posted February 6, 2026 at 11:44am
Demonstrators attend a rally outside The Washington Post offices in downtown Washington on Thursday, after about 300 newsroom employees were laid off. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | January 30-February 5, 2026

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted February 6, 2026 at 10:37am
The late Rep. John Lewis, is seen on April 15, 2015, recounting his experience in Selma, Ala., to a group of students gathered on the House steps.

You don’t need to view US law-enforcement lawlessness through a ‘Gestapo’ lens

By Mary C. Curtis
Posted February 6, 2026 at 6:00am
Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., has called the Democrats’ newest proposal “a ridiculous Christmas list of demands.”

Another funding extension eyed as partisan immigration standoff deepens

By Valerie Yurk, Aris Folley and Jacob Fulton
Posted February 5, 2026 at 6:16pm
Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker said Thursday he supports a proposal to request $450 billion for defense in a potential next round of budget reconciliation legislation.

Members split on plan to use reconciliation again to boost defense

By Mark Satter
Posted February 5, 2026 at 5:38pm

Capitol Lens | Thaw, humbug!

By Bill Clark
Posted February 5, 2026 at 4:37pm
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., arrives for a news conference in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Senate GOP blocks push for legal action over Epstein law

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted February 5, 2026 at 4:22pm

At the Races: ICE breaker

By Mary Ellen McIntire, Daniela Altimari and Niels Lesniewski
Posted February 5, 2026 at 4:04pm
President Donald Trump speaks during the National Prayer Breakfast at the Washington Hilton on Thursday. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump roasts Democratic lawmakers, mocks Chip Roy at Prayer Breakfast

By John T. Bennett
Posted February 5, 2026 at 12:12pm
Clockwise from top left: former Rep. Tom Malinowski, former Lt. Gov. Tahesha Way, organizer Analilia Mejia and Essex County Commissioner Brendan Gill are among the candidates seeking the Democratic nomination in the special election for New Jersey's 11th District. (Courtesy Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call; Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images; Analilia Mejia for New Jersey/Facebook; Brendan Gill for NJ/Facebook)

What to know about the New Jersey special election primary for Sherrill’s seat

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted February 5, 2026 at 5:00am
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., left, listens to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., speak during a news conference Wednesday. Also pictured is Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the House Homeland Security panel's top Democrat.

Democratic leaders pitch wish list ahead of DHS funding deadline

By Niels Lesniewski and Valerie Yurk
Posted February 4, 2026 at 4:39pm, Updated at 10:31pm
Georgia Rep. Barry Loudermilk is not seeking reelection this year.

Georgia’s Barry Loudermilk is latest House Republican to retire

By Daniela Altimari and Nina Heller
Posted February 4, 2026 at 7:15pm
Former Rep. Lee H. Hamilton, right, who served as vice chair of the 9/11 commission, is pictured at a 2010 hearing with the panel's former chairman, Thomas H. Kean.

Hamilton seen, then and now, as embodying ideal of bipartisanship

By John M. Donnelly
Posted February 4, 2026 at 6:50pm
Chair Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and ranking member Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., talk before the start of a Senate Commerce Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Dec. 17, 2025.

Cruz’s satellite licensing bill faces longer delay

By Allison Mollenkamp
Posted February 4, 2026 at 6:23pm
A Washington, D.C., flag in a Capitol Hill neighborhood last fall. Republicans in Congress are moving ahead with an effort to override D.C.’s tax code decoupling.

House advances measure to block DC tax code decoupling 

By Nina Heller
Posted February 4, 2026 at 5:06pm
From left, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.; Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif.; Luke Ganger and Brent Ganger arrive for the bicameral public forum on tactics by agents of the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday. Brent and Luke are brothers of Renee Nicole Good, who was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in January in Minneapolis.

As DHS spending debate ramps up anew, a focus on enforcement’s impact

By Chris Johnson
Posted February 4, 2026 at 4:20pm
Voters stand in long lines to cast their ballots in the Proposition 50 special election on redistricting in Garden Grove, Calif., on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025.

Supreme Court refuses to overturn new California districts

By Michael Macagnone
Posted February 4, 2026 at 2:21pm

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