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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
The legislative hearing was part of a rapidly moving redistricting process, pushed by President Trump, that could see the map approved next week.
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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 31, 2025
Plus, why the tsunami wasn't bigger.
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Jul 31, 2025
The proposed map would give Republicans a chance to gain five U.S. House seats, including in Houston, Dallas and along the U.S.-Mexican border.
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Jul 31, 2025
Plus, why the tsunami wasn't bigger.
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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 12 Democrats accused the Trump administration of violating the law when it turned them away from immigrant detention sites and imposed a new policy limiting congressional access.
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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
Marjorie Taylor Greene was the first Republican in Congress to use the term to describe the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza. But others in the MAGA movement have expressed growing concern about Israel.
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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 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
For America to survive Trump, Democrats must prevail in the midterms.
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Jul 27, 2025
"I don't know why it should be politically painful to be transparent," Representative Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, said on Sunday, referring to comments by Speaker Mike Johnson.
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Jul 26, 2025
Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez says age-related cognitive decline among elected officials is a major issue for voters.
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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
With lawmakers out of Washington for a five-week summer recess, a field hearing in a swing state gave G.O.P. lawmakers a controlled environment for pitching a measure that polls show is unpopular.
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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
Giving in to partisan manipulation would further erode the public's trust in government.
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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
Giving in to partisan manipulation would further erode the public's trust in government.
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Jul 25, 2025
Giving in to partisan manipulation would further erode the public's trust in government.
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Jul 25, 2025
The long history of the right's obsession with child trafficking means it won't be easy for Trump to make this story disappear.
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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
Working to exploit a G.O.P. rift, Democrats are aggressively pushing charges of a coverup in the case of the accused pedophile, which many of them once dismissed as a conspiracy theory.
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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 24, 2025
Joe Macken spent 21 years constructing a model of the city, including bridges, brownstones and both the twin towers and One World Trade Center.
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Jul 23, 2025
Three Republicans joined with five Democrats to support the motion.
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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
Investigators have released an inquiry into the fatal crash in a mountainous area, where Eugene Peltola Jr., the husband of former U.S. Representative Mary Peltola, was killed in 2023.
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Jul 23, 2025
The case of Jeffrey Epstein, sex offender and former friend of the president, has blown up into a major headache for the White House.
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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 23, 2025
Representative Mike Lawler's decision clears a path for his Republican House colleague, Elise Stefanik, to challenge Gov. Kathy Hochul.
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Jul 22, 2025
The Republican speaker truncated the legislative schedule for the week ahead of a summer recess, moving to deny Democrats the chance to force votes on whether to release the Epstein material.
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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
Speaker Mike Johnson said that he would adjourn the House until September to avoid a vote on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files.
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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 Republican speaker of the House had said last week that the government should release "everything" in the Jeffrey Epstein files, in a rare break with the president that turned out to be short-lived.
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Jul 21, 2025
By taking up new congressional maps pushed by President Trump first, Republicans hope to discourage Democrats from walking out of a special session before they vote on flood relief.
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Jul 21, 2025
A co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus, he represented St. Louis in the House as an uncompromising liberal Democrat and a forceful advocate for the poor.
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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 19, 2025
The speaker comes in with a strong entry in the sycophancy sweepstakes.
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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
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
After a week of squabbling in Washington, the cryptocurrency industry secured one of its primary legislative objectives and made progress toward a second one.
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Jul 17, 2025
The House this week took up a trio of bills that would establish a federal framework for regulating the cryptocurrency industry. One of the measures cleared Congress and is on its way to enactment.
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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
The House this week took up a trio of bills that would establish a federal framework for regulating the cryptocurrency industry. One of the measures is about to clear Congress and become law.
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Jul 17, 2025
A leading Manhattan congressman who has taken the subway for years and the transportation secretary, who frequently criticizes the system, clashed over how dangerous it is at a House hearing in Washington.
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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
Government officials from opposite sides of the aisle clashed in Washington over just how dangerous the New York City subway system is.
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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
The crypto industry was headed for a landmark moment in the House with three bills that it helped push going to a vote. But a coalition of ultraconservative House Republicans staged a mutiny.
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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
The Kentucky Republican, a frequent critic of President Trump, teamed with a Democrat in a maneuver that could force G.O.P. leaders to hold a vote on the matter within weeks.
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Jul 16, 2025
The decision to sustain the prosecution of the Texas Democrat stands in contrast to the department's decisions to drop or downgrade investigations of Trump allies or those he deems politically useful.
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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
Adelita Grijalva beat back charges of "legacy" and embraced the memory of her father, Raúl Grijalva, to win the Democratic primary for the House seat opened by his death.
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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
Get live results and maps from the 2025 Arizona special primary election.
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Jul 15, 2025
Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democratic leader, told Texas Democrats on a call on Tuesday that the moment required everyone to take extraordinary actions.
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Jul 15, 2025
Right-wing Republicans have also criticized the president's stances on Iran and Ukraine, hinting at a broader fraying of his political coalition.
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Jul 15, 2025
After years pressing to end U.S. aid to Ukraine, many Republicans have abandoned that position now that President Trump is supporting the country against Russian aggression.
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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
Trump may be winning the battle to weaken our democracy, but he has not won the war.
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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
Donald J. Trump and his allies have begun investigations to support their claims that Joseph R. Biden Jr. was incapacitated and his staff conspired to take presidential actions in his name.
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Jul 13, 2025
The former president said he "made every single one of those" decisions and that Republicans were questioning them because "they've done so badly" and wanted to shift the focus.
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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 12, 2025
The new domestic policy law rewrites tax rules for the hundreds of billions of dollars Americans legally wager each year. A Nevada lawmaker has introduced a bill to overturn that provision.
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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
Six members of Congress from Wisconsin and Minnesota have asked Canada to say how it plans to tackle the blazes and reduce the haze billowing south.
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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 10, 2025
Representative Adriano Espaillat, the most powerful Latino leader in New York City, will back Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for mayor.
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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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