Speaker Mike Johnson said Wednesday he supports a ban on stock trading by members of Congress amid controversy about well-timed trades during recent market volatility. “You want me to tell you my honest opinion on…
House Democrats are firing back at Republican attacks on their top fundraising platform, saying that in fact it’s the GOP’s own online fundraising sites that might be used as tools of corruption and foreign influence.…
A new report shows the House’s ethics watchdog received thousands of messages from the public during the first three months of 2025 — while it was prohibited from opening any investigations. Those 4,131 communications included…
Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy said there’s “no doubt” that former President Joe Biden suffered cognitive decline in office and that it would have been better for the party if he hadn’t run for reelection. “There’s…
GOP congressional leaders have stood aside the past four months as President Donald Trump has attacked legislative branch prerogatives — shuttering agencies, canceling federal grants and imposing sweeping tariffs. Now he’s meddling in their actual…
Alaska’s lone House lawmaker says he supports Republicans’ plan to pay for their megabill by shifting some food aid costs to states — a move that hits Alaska and other states with high payment error…
Democrats on Wednesday pressed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on what her agency is doing to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran national who was mistakenly sent to El Salvador, as well…
“It would be like the United States moving into the Qatari embassy,” Sen. Roger Wicker said.
Space industry officials and Hill staff say there’s no one driving the massive policy shifts.
Running out of options to get its DOGE cuts approved by Congress, the White House is now looking at a two-year runway to get the cuts passed and opening the door to launching a court…
Michigan Rep. Shri Thanedar chose not to follow through on a threat to force a House vote on impeaching President Donald Trump Wednesday amid mounting pressure from fellow Democrats. Thanedar did not call up his…
One of the most vulnerable Republicans in Congress and one of the most outspoken are feuding over the cap on state and local deductions in the GOP’s sweeping tax bill. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene lashed…
More than a dozen House Republicans are urging party leaders to undo key rollbacks of Democrats’ clean energy credits that the Ways and Means Committee pushed through Wednesday as part of the party’s megabill. Rep.…
GOP staff for the the House Agriculture Committee is warning industry groups that they need to get behind the panel’s megabill package of $300 billion in nutrition spending cuts or risk getting nothing from the…
Speaker Mike Johnson is scrambling to negotiate with competing factions of his conference as the clock ticks to advance President Donald Trump’s agenda through the House next week. Here’s a sampling of what each group…
GOP leaders, speaking at POLITICO’s Security Summit, highlighted ethical and financial concerns around the potential gift.
Gen. B. Chance Saltzman, speaking at the POLITICO Security Summit, said China’s “kill web” is the biggest threat in U.S. adversaries’ growing space capabilities.
The administration is proposing a $6 billion budget cut to NASA.
Democratic lawmakers are trying to block billions of dollars in arms sales to two Middle Eastern countries to protest investments in President Donald Trump’s personal business and a jet offered to him. Sen. Chris Murphy…
Speaker Mike Johnson is racing to resolve a suite of remaining issues with the GOP megabill just days before he hopes to put it up for a floor vote. Warring factions inside the House Republican…