Congress

The Ohio Republican will be well-situated if Republicans lose the House majority.

It’s become impossible to predict the trajectory of the congressional appropriations process.

The president’s fiscal 2027 budget request calls for Republicans to use a partisan process for enacting billions for the Pentagon.

A Trump-blessed plan would use the budget reconciliation process to deliver yearly agency funding without a bipartisan agreement.

House Oversight Chair James Comer isn’t ruling out making Bondi honor the subpoena the panel slapped her with last month.

A January Office of Congressional Conduct report showed the review also looked at funding that went to a foundation led by Freddie Figgers, a telecommunications executive from Broward County with ties to the governor.

Speaker Mike Johnson will likely have to rely on Democrats to act when the chamber returns April 14.

A judge has challenged Congress to approve Trump’s multimillion-dollar construction project, but Republicans aren’t showing any immediate interest in the subject.

The DNC and the party’s campaign committees asked a judge to block the executive action that seeks to limit mail voting.

The celebrity-focused site is making a splash with crowdsourced recess photos.

Anxiety over state gambling revenues and suspected insider trading have lawmakers threatening to clamp down on Kalshi, Polymarket and other platforms.

The strongest impetus for a deal — the hourslong security lines at some U.S. airports — is already dissipating.

Republicans opted for a fast-track “deem and pass” provision.

Paul hopes to carve out a libertarian lane in a party he says is shaped by populism.

It’s still TBD whether a supplemental military funding request will come with the broader fiscal blueprint for fiscal 2027.

Speaker Mike Johnson instead had the House vote on a two-month funding punt that cannot pass the Senate.

“I’m really, really hopeful this doesn’t turn into a boots-on-the-ground situation,” said Arizona Rep. Eli Crane.

There's little certainty this plan, which rejects the Senate-passed deal, will bring an end to the extended agency shutdown.

The Senate-passed legislation “should be brought to the floor immediately,” Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said.

The speaker is confronting an internal backlash on the Senate-passed bill.