Republicans eye actions against the courts and judges as Trump rails against rulings
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Angry over the crush of court rulings against the Trump administration, Republicans in Congress are trying to...
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Senate Democrats refuse to go along with GOP spending plan, as shutdown deadline nears
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A day before a shutdown deadline, Senate Democrats are mounting a last-ditch protest over a Republican-led government...
'In DOGE we trust': House GOP governs by embracing Trump's effort to cut government
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A familiar scene has played out over and over in the U.S. House: Republicans, unable to approve...
'In DOGE we trust:' House GOP governs by embracing Trump's effort to cut government
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A familiar scene has played out over and over in the U.S. House: Republicans, unable to approve...
House GOP campaign chairman says voters will 'reward us' for the Trump-Musk DOGE cuts
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Almost two months into President Donald Trump's second term, the chairman of the House Republican campaign committee...
Elon Musk comes to Capitol Hill to meet with Republicans who discuss turning DOGE cuts into law
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Billionaire Elon Musk arrived on Capitol Hill Tuesday and learned about something new -- budget rescissions, an...
Rep. Al Green shouts down Trump and may face censure by the House for the outburst
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democratic Rep. Al Green of Texas wasn't the first lawmaker ever to blurt out a shout of...
Speaker Johnson tells GOP lawmakers to skip town halls after an onslaught of protests
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Speaker Mike Johnson is encouraging Republican lawmakers to skip town halls that have been filled with...
Trump's speech to Congress comes as he wields vast power almost daring lawmakers, courts to stop him
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump arrives this week on Capitol Hill to deliver a speech to Congress, a coequal...
Democrats channel their outrage over DOGE, Ukraine and more in marathon Senate session
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The budget resolution from Republicans was on the agenda in the Senate, but the late-night debate encompassed...
Senate GOP pushes ahead with budget bill that funds Trump's mass deportations and border wall
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Republicans pushed ahead late Tuesday on a scaled-back budget bill, a $340 billion package to give...
McConnell tests the strengths and limits of his power opposing a trio of Trump's Cabinet nominees
WASHINGTON (AP) -- No longer in charge, Sen. Mitch McConnell has been speaking his mind, the long-serving GOP leader rejecting...
Conspiracies, espionage, an enemies list: Takeaways from a wild day of confirmation hearings
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Conspiracy theories about vaccines. Secret meetings with dictators. An enemies list.
Senate confirms Marco Rubio as secretary of state, giving Trump the first member of his Cabinet
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate quickly confirmed Marco Rubio as secretary of state Monday, voting unanimously to give President Donald...
Senators are preparing to vote on Marco Rubio as secretary of state, a first in Trump's Cabinet
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senators are preparing to vote Monday on Sen. Marco Rubio as President Donald Trump's nominee for secretary...
Senators are working into the evening hoping to confirm Trump's first Cabinet nominees
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senators returned to the Capitol Monday for a late-evening session pushing ahead on President Donald Trump's Cabinet...
Trump's outsider Cabinet picks are rapidly gaining support for confirmation
WASHINGTON (AP) -- One by one, all the president-elect' s men, and women, are falling into place in his Cabinet.
Trump is planning 100 executive orders starting Day 1 on border, deportations and other priorities
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump is preparing more than 100 executive orders starting Day One of the new White...
Congress is ready to certify Trump's election win, but his Jan. 6 legacy hangs over the day
WASHINGTON (AP) -- As Congress convenes amid a winter storm to certify President-elect Donald Trump 's election, the legacy of...
Speaker Mike Johnson is trying to save his job as a new Congress convenes
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The new Congress convenes Friday with one major task at hand -- the election of the House...
With a nod to her mentor Shirley Chisholm, Rep. Barbara Lee exits Congress as a renegade herself
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rep. Barbara Lee has always stood apart, a matter-of-fact renegade with a long list of firsts.
Shutdown saga exposes new fault lines for Speaker Johnson and tests his grip on the gavel
WASHINGTON (AP) -- One of the most turbulent sessions of Congress in the modern era is about to make way...
After investigating Jan. 6, House GOP sides with Trump and goes after Liz Cheney
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Wrapping up their investigation on the Jan. 6 2021 Capitol attack, House Republicans have concluded it's former...
Speaker Johnson's 'epic' weekend with Trump shows strengths and limits of his power
WASHINGTON (AP) -- There was House Speaker Mike Johnson walking behind President-elect Donald Trump's entourage into Saturday night's UFC fight...
Library of Congress says an adversary hacked some emails
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Library of Congress has notified lawmakers of a "cyber breach" of its IT system by an...
Trump is already testing Congress and daring Republicans to oppose him
WASHINGTON (AP) -- After a resounding election victory, delivering what President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans call a "mandate" to govern...
Speaker Johnson begins fight for the House gavel, winning nod from Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Speaker Mike Johnson is beginning the hard fight for his gavel, a weeks-long campaign that starts Wednesday...
Speaker Johnson begins fight for the House gavel promising to be Trump's 'quarterback'
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Speaker Mike Johnson is beginning the hard fight for his gavel, a weeks-long campaign that starts Wednesday...
GOP picks up more key House seats while Democrats insist they still have a path to a majority
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican leaders projected confidence Thursday that they will keep control of the U.S. House as more races...
It's a fight to the finish in races that will determine control of Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The final doors are being knocked, ads are blaring and candidates are making a last pitch to...
Hakeem Jeffries chooses calm over chaos as Democrats work to win the House majority
PALMDALE, Calif. (AP) -- This election, he has warned, is about the economy. Freedom. Stopping Project 2025 and the MAGA extremes.
Speaker Mike Johnson is pulling closer to Trump to save the GOP's House majority
HOLLAND, Ohio (AP) -- Wherever House Speaker Mike Johnson goes, Donald Trump, seemingly, is not far away.
The first presidential election since the Jan. 6 attack will test new guardrails from Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) -- This presidential election, the first since the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol, will be a...
How Project 2025's rightward vision became a flashpoint in this year's election
WASHINGTON (AP) -- For the past year, Project 2025 has endured as a persistent force in the presidential election, its...
Democrat Hakeem Jeffries stumps in California in a bid to reclaim House control
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries crisscrossed Southern California over the weekend in communities far from the presidential...
Filing in Trump case details remarkable schism with Pence over rejecting 2020 election loss
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Days before rioters roamed the halls of the U.S. Capitol threatening to "hang Mike Pence," Donald Trump...
Speaker Johnson demands Zelenskyy remove Ukraine's ambassador to US after Pennsylvania visit
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Speaker Mike Johnson is calling on Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to fire his country's ambassador to...
A year ago Kevin McCarthy was booted as House speaker. Mike Johnson is trying to avoid that fate
WASHINGTON (AP) -- One year since Kevin McCarthy was booted from the House speaker's office after Congress voted in a...
Bernie Sanders preparing resolutions to block $20B in US arms sales to Israel
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Bernie Sanders is preparing several resolutions that would stop more than $20 billion in U.S. arms...
2 Black women could make Senate history on Election Day
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate has the potential for history-making this fall, with not one, but two, Black women possibly...
Two Black women could make US Senate history this election. But they strive to make a difference
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate has the potential for history-making this fall, with not one, but two, Black women possibly...
Tight race for control of Congress could be decided by just a handful of campaigns
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The race for control of Congress is as close as ever, with barely two dozen House seats...
'It's our time': As Harris accepts the nomination, many women say a female president is long overdue
WASHINGTON (AP) -- "Electric." "Joyful."
Pelosi says it's her life goal to ensure 'that man' Trump never steps in the White House again
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nancy Pelosi's influence can be seen all across the Democratic Party shakeup that in a few short...
Project 2025's new leader Kevin Roberts postpones his own book launch until after the election
WASHINGTON (AP) -- As Project 2025 hits turmoil, the head of the influential, far-right Heritage Foundation is postponing the release...
Pelosi warns in her new book that political threats and violence 'must stop'
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nancy Pelosi thought briefly she might have died on Jan. 6, 2021.
Pelosi and Democratic leaders try to guide their party through Biden uproar
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nancy Pelosi's phone lit up the night of President Joe Biden's debate performance with a question that...
Biden's candidacy faces new peril, including first Senate Democrat saying he should exit race
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Joe Biden's imperiled reelection campaign hit new trouble Wednesday as House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi said...
Biden's candidacy faces new peril, as first Senate Democrat says he should exit race
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Joe Biden's imperiled reelection campaign hit new trouble Wednesday as House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi said...
Biden's candidacy faces new peril as Pelosi, Clooney and more Democrats weigh in
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Joe Biden's imperiled re-election campaign hit new trouble Wednesday as House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi said...
Pelosi says 'it's up to the president' to decide whether to stay in the race
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday "it's up to the president to decide" if he should stay...
Pelosi says 'it's up to the president' to decide to stay in the race
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday "it's up to the president to decide" if he should stay...
Biden tells Hill Democrats he won't step aside amid party drama and "it's time for it to end'
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Joe Biden, in a letter to congressional Democrats, stood firm against calls for him to drop...
Biden tells Hill Democrats he 'declines' to step aside and says it's time for party drama 'to end'
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Joe Biden, in a letter to congressional Democrats, stood firm against calls for him to drop...
Biden's uncertain political future divides Democrats as they return to Capitol Hill
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Deeply torn over President Joe Biden's candidacy, Democratic lawmakers return to Washington at a pivotal moment as...
House Democrat is proposing a constitutional amendment to reverse Supreme Court's immunity decision
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A leading House Democrat is preparing a constitutional amendment in response to the Supreme Court's landmark immunity...
Jan. 6 shadows the 2024 campaign, but not on the debate stage. That alarms democracy advocates
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the first presidential debate, Republican Donald Trump skimmed over the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the...
Conservative-backed group is creating a list of federal workers it suspects could resist Trump plans
WASHINGTON (AP) -- From his home office in small-town Kentucky, a seasoned political operative is quietly investigating scores of federal...
Mike Pence's foundation launches a $10 million election-year campaign to preserve Trump-era tax cuts
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Vice President Mike Pence's foundation is launching a $10 million campaign to preserve the Trump-era tax...