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Aug 01, 2025
Overwhelming bipartisan passage of $506 billion in federal funding masked a bigger fight ahead over funding the rest of the government before a Sept. 30 shutdown deadline.
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Aug 01, 2025
When it comes to attracting mega-donors, Republicans are crushing Democrats.
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Jul 31, 2025
Ms. Lucas, who has led efforts to attack diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, was confirmed by the Senate for a second term.
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Jul 31, 2025
The office of Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana asked the Department of Homeland Security to release the detainee, who is married to a U.S. Marine Corps veteran.
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Jul 31, 2025
The measure faces long odds given past Republican opposition to sending additional assistance to Kyiv, but it comes as President Trump has signaled a new openness to finding ways to back the nation.
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Jul 30, 2025
Joe Kent, a former Army Green Beret, had attracted scrutiny over his associations with extremist groups and his promotion of conspiracy theories.
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Jul 30, 2025
The bill passed the committee with the support of every Democrat and only one Republican, its sponsor, who modified it to shield President Trump from a divestment requirement.
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Jul 30, 2025
The bill passed the committee with the support of every Democrat and only one Republican, its sponsor, who modified it to shield President Trump from a divestment requirement.
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Jul 30, 2025
The Pennsylvania senator will recount political battles and physical and mental health challenges in "Unfettered."
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Jul 30, 2025
Under pressure to show they are resisting President Trump, Democrats have insisted on recorded votes on every nominee, creating a bottleneck ahead of the August recess.
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Jul 30, 2025
The move is part of an effort by Democrats to draw Senate Republicans into the debate over the release of the Epstein files, which has bitterly divided the House G.O.P. and wrought havoc in that chamber.
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Jul 29, 2025
The Trump loyalist was narrowly approved as Republicans brushed aside concerns about his conduct as a senior Justice Department official.
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Jul 29, 2025
When a pair of Democrats sought to win quick approval of a bipartisan package of policing legislation, a third rose to object, saying the party must take every opportunity to challenge President Trump.
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Jul 29, 2025
The senator's treatment of whistle-blowers detailing allegations against Emil Bove, the Trump loyalist and appeals court nominee, has had a chilling effect, critics say.
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Jul 29, 2025
The legislation, led by Senator Ted Cruz, the Republican chairman of a panel that oversees air travel, has a number of high-profile supporters — but no Democrats, yet.
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Jul 28, 2025
Paul Dans will run in the South Carolina primary highlighting the work of Project 2025, a conservative blueprint that President Trump has employed during his second term.
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Jul 28, 2025
The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee also pressed the Justice Department for a promise that Ms. Maxwell will not be pardoned for her cooperation in matters related to the Jeffrey Epstein files.
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Jul 26, 2025
Joe Kennedy III, the grandson of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, says there is work to do in red states. He also has a few things to say about his uncle, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Jul 25, 2025
The Trump administration had faced growing pressure from within his own party to release the money.
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Jul 25, 2025
The president has had a consequential impact on the Republican membership of the Senate as resistors are replaced by devotees. Most incumbents, even those not inclined to, have fallen in line.
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Jul 25, 2025
Democrats are leery of supporting Republican spending measures after the White House forced through clawbacks of funding already approved by Congress.
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Jul 25, 2025
The attorney general of Texas, who is challenging Senator John Cornyn, could have secured favorable mortgage rates, and may have violated the law if he knowingly falsified loan documents.
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Jul 24, 2025
The top Democrat on the foreign affairs panel cast the deciding vote to allow Michael Waltz's nomination to go to the floor in exchange for a promise from the administration to release money for Haiti and Nigeria.
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Jul 24, 2025
His entry will pave the way for a marquee contest in 2026, with former Gov. Roy Cooper planning to seek the Democratic nomination.
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Jul 23, 2025
The campaign for the open seat will be one of the biggest of 2026, after the incumbent Republican, Senator Thom Tillis, announced his retirement.
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Jul 23, 2025
It's the third time this year that investigators from the Government Accountability Office have determined the administration defied Congress on spending.
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Jul 23, 2025
Republican leaders said they were ready to vote as soon as this month on punishing penalties against Moscow but have paused after President Trump threatened to act unilaterally within weeks.
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Jul 22, 2025
President Trump deflected questions about the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein by lashing out at his perceived enemies.
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Jul 22, 2025
G.O.P. leaders scrounging for the votes to push through the president's priorities have increasingly turned to him and his team to win over holdouts with special carve-outs and commitments.
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Jul 22, 2025
Two Opinion writers on the Democratic governors who might just save the party.
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Jul 21, 2025
The price of pleasing Trump grows steeper.
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Jul 20, 2025
Shouting matches, walkouts and bitter fiscal fights have led to a series of legislative meltdowns, with big spending clashes ahead.
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Jul 18, 2025
Democrats denounced a report issued by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence as politically motivated and error-ridden.
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Jul 18, 2025
Readers, many of them unhappy, react to the cancellation of Mr. Colbert's show. Also: A rubber-stamp Congress; lessons from the Scopes trial.
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Jul 18, 2025
President Trump's request to claw back $9 billion in congressionally approved spending passed despite objections from Republicans who said it abdicated the legislative branch's power of the purse.
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Jul 18, 2025
In voting for President Trump's cancellation of $9 billion in spending they had already approved, Republicans in Congress showed they were willing to cede their power of the purse.
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Jul 17, 2025
Will the Republican sprawling policy bill give Democrats new traction in next year's midterms?
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Jul 17, 2025
An even more intense battle is expected on the Senate floor over the nomination of a Trump immigration policy enforcer to a lifetime judicial post.
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Jul 17, 2025
The 51-to-48 vote came over the objections of two Republicans. The House is expected to give final approval to the package later this week, sending it to Mr. Trump for his signature.
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Jul 17, 2025
Will the Republican sprawling policy bill give Democrats a whole new traction in next year's midterms?
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Jul 17, 2025
The Alaska lawmaker was given a copy when first appointed to the Senate in 2002 and it's still on her bedside table. "Far From Home" is her new memoir.
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Jul 17, 2025
The Senate voted 51 to 48 to reclaim spending previously approved by Congress.
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Jul 17, 2025
The bill to claw back $9 billion in congressionally approved spending passed over the objections of Republicans who said it abdicated the legislative branch's power of the purse.
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Jul 16, 2025
Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said the changes were needed and called the outrage overblown.
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Jul 16, 2025
The lawyers wrote that Emil Bove III, the face of some controversial moves by President Trump's Justice Department, had disgraced the department.
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Jul 16, 2025
The law is creating backlash from the gambling industry and bettors who could owe taxes even if they break even.
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Jul 16, 2025
There are no easy solutions when it comes to immigration, but President Joe Biden waited too long to acknowledge the crisis at the southern border.
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Jul 16, 2025
The president's marquee policy legislation is best known for slashing taxes and cutting social safety net programs. But the sweeping measure also included many little-noticed goodies and add-ons.
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Jul 16, 2025
The vote to take up legislation to rescind $9 billion in congressionally approved funds suggested that Republicans would bow to the president's wishes in the simmering fight over spending powers.
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Jul 15, 2025
The vote to take up legislation to rescind $9 billion in funds Congress has already approved suggested that Republicans would bow to the president's wishes in the simmering fight over spending powers.
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Jul 15, 2025
Trump may be winning the battle to weaken our democracy, but he has not won the war.
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Jul 15, 2025
Michael Waltz, the former national security adviser, doubled down on the Trump administration's defense of a Signal group chat where senior officials discussed war plans.
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Jul 15, 2025
PEPFAR, the AIDS relief program, hasn't operated in Russia since 2012 and does not fund abortions.
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Jul 15, 2025
Trump may be winning the battle to weaken our democracy, but he has not won the war.
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Jul 14, 2025
The minority members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee say the White House is undercutting American soft power and letting China fill the void.
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Jul 14, 2025
Congress must reject cuts to PEPFAR, which has supported H.I.V. treatment and prevention worldwide for more than 20 years.
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Jul 13, 2025
Kimberly A. Cheatle, who resigned after Donald J. Trump was grazed by a bullet as a candidate a year ago, pushed back against findings in a Senate report released on Sunday.
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Jul 12, 2025
The order meant details in the case, which involves allegations of adultery, would not be public as the Texas attorney general challenges Senator John Cornyn in the 2026 primary.
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Jul 11, 2025
Senator Chuck Schumer urged the health secretary to declare an emergency to keep other regions from experiencing the "nightmare" seen in Texas.
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Jul 11, 2025
Cuts to public media could have the deepest impact in red, rural and Republican America.
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Jul 10, 2025
The announcement could have a significant impact on the race for U.S. Senate in Texas. Mr. Paxton is challenging Senator John Cornyn in the Republican primary.
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Jul 10, 2025
The announcement could have a significant impact on the race for U.S. Senate in Texas. Mr. Paxton is challenging Senator John Cornyn in the Republican primary.
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Jul 10, 2025
The top Senate Democrat said the law would lead to widespread pain for voters, imperiling Republicans who supported it and allowing his party more openings to contest control of the Senate.
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Jul 10, 2025
In an interview with The New York Times, a former Justice Department lawyer, Erez Reuveni, said officials pressed subordinates to mislead judges, and dared the courts to stop it.
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Jul 09, 2025
It is unclear whether moves targeting the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey and the former C.I.A. director John O. Brennan will lead to charges.
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Jul 09, 2025
It is unclear whether the moves will lead to charges, but they suggest that President Trump's appointees intend to follow through on his campaign to exact retribution against his perceived enemies.
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Jul 09, 2025
The agency is under pressure to modernize outdated air traffic control systems that have contributed to a series of outages, near-misses and deadly accidents in recent months.
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Jul 09, 2025
The agency is under pressure to modernize outdated air traffic control systems that have contributed to a series of outages, near-misses, and deadly accidents in recent months.
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Jul 09, 2025
Momentum has been building behind a bipartisan bill to impose sanctions on countries that purchase Russian oil, as Republicans work behind the scenes to win President Trump's support.
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Jul 08, 2025
Is there a way to elect an independent bloc of senators?
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Jul 08, 2025
As Dan Osborn begins a new Senate campaign, he thinks some Republicans have buyer's remorse.
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Jul 08, 2025
A steamfitter and former union leader, running as an independent but with Democratic support, will take on the Republican incumbent, a billionaire's son.
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Jul 08, 2025
As Dan Osborn launches a new Senate campaign, he thinks some Republicans have buyer's remorse.
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Jul 07, 2025
The Missouri senator's evasions expose a disgraced Senate.
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Jul 06, 2025
What Senator Thom Tillis's retirement says about today's Republican Party.
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Jul 06, 2025
President Trump's domestic policy law jeopardizes plans to reopen one rural county's hospital — and health coverage for hundreds of thousands of state residents.
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Jul 04, 2025
President Trump triumphantly highlighted tax cuts in the legislation while downplaying cuts to Medicaid and other assistance for poor Americans.
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Jul 04, 2025
Congress is no longer in the business of thoughtful legislating. Its role has been reduced to putting political points on the board for the president.
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Jul 03, 2025
The plan, part of the Republican domestic policy bill, includes all but the wealthiest families. But states must opt in, which could limit its reach.
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Jul 03, 2025
Social work majors might struggle to get student loans. University endowments would be more heavily taxed. But students in some training programs would become eligible for Pell Grants.
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Jul 03, 2025
Seven writers on the best and worst provisions in Trump's bill.
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Jul 03, 2025
The wide-ranging domestic policy legislation could impact taxes, clean energy choices, health care access and more.
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Jul 03, 2025
Seven writers on the best and worst provisions in Trump's bill.
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Jul 02, 2025
To secure a key vote, an "absurd policy" was created that winds up encouraging states to make more mistakes.
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Jul 02, 2025
If members of the House demand changes to the legislation the Senate has passed, the two chambers will have to work out their differences in what could be a prolonged negotiation, potentially killing the effort.
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Jul 02, 2025
Fiscal hawks have repeatedly threatened to bring down their party's agenda out of debt fears, only to back down after pressure from party leaders and President Trump.
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Jul 02, 2025
Democrats are sharpening their political arguments against their opposition as the president's major policy bill moves through Congress.
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Jul 02, 2025
Readers criticize several aspects of the Trump policy bill. Also: In praise of U.S.A.I.D.
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Jul 02, 2025
The nation's largest abortion provider must stop offering it in some states or risk losing millions in Medicaid funding to provide basic health care for low-income Americans.
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Jul 02, 2025
President Trump's agenda passed in the Senate. It now goes to the House. Plus, we take a close look at this Supreme Court term.
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Jul 02, 2025
Plus, the science of staying cool.
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Jul 02, 2025
But the benefits of the deduction, estimated to cost $31 billion over four years, may be limited to a narrow slice of consumers, economists say.
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Jul 02, 2025
The nation's largest abortion provider must stop offering it in some states or risk losing millions in Medicaid funding to provide basic health care for low-income Americans.
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Jul 02, 2025
A revival of U.S. solar panel manufacturing that began during the first Trump administration could end with the phasing out of tax incentives for clean energy.
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Jul 01, 2025
The money, which was allocated by Congress, helps pay for after-school programs, support for students learning English and other services.
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Jul 01, 2025
Trump's "big beautiful bill" would gut Medicaid, nutrition assistance and clean energy credits. All for what?
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Jul 01, 2025
Senators cast 43 recorded votes during a marathon session on President Trump's domestic policy bill, nearly reaching the 44-vote record from 2008. The session lasted roughly 27 hours without a recess.
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Jul 01, 2025
If President Trump gets his domestic policy bill over the finish line, it will be a vivid demonstration of his continuing hold over the Republican Party.
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Jul 01, 2025
To meet the president's Friday deadline, the speaker will have to corral his party into accepting a bill several have criticized.
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Jul 01, 2025
The Alaska Republican, a frequent critic of the president who is often a swing vote, acknowledged the bill would harm Americans but backed it after winning carve outs for her state.
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