Congress
Your guide to what’s happening on Capitol Hill.
How Donald Trump and Elon Musk could use a debt ceiling breach to usurp Congress’s power.
How Trump could attempt to cut Medicaid, school funding, and more — without Congress.
The Laken Riley Act passed with bipartisan support and will upend immigration enforcement.
The report accuses Gaetz of paying women for sex — including a 17-year-old.
That bodes poorly for his agenda next year.
Trump stoked another congressional crisis. But there’s an intriguing twist to this one.
Trump told NBC that making the pardons would be one of his day-one priorities.
Washington Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez on where she thinks her party went wrong in 2024.
The exhausting dance that precedes every single government funding battle has begun.
A new AI tool blames Congress’s “conflict entrepreneurs” for polarizing the country.
After his latest address to Congress, the Israeli prime minister has never looked more isolated.
The party doesn’t need to accept defeat. It just needs to reject Joe Biden.
The loss is a blow to progressives that sends a message about Israel.
Americans are confronting a whole new reality of patchwork abortion access after the Dobbs decision.
Republicans’ vote to hold him in contempt, briefly explained.
What is the Kids’ Online Safety Act, and why should you care about it?
The bill provides billions in foreign aid and could force ByteDance to sell TikTok.
Biden has signed a bill to ban TikTok. But it’s not over yet.
The GOP majority is quite small, but a Democratic takeover pre-election still seems extremely unlikely.
They point to much deeper holes in US immigration policy.
Roughly 80 percent of House Republicans just lined up behind a plan to cut Social Security and ban all abortions.
Why we find ourselves on the precipice again and again … and again.
Former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin is among those lining up to buy TikTok if Congress enacts a law that forces its Chinese owner to sell.
Republican Rep. Ken Buck, a critic of GOP impeachment efforts, is the latest to leave early.
The president is getting walloped on the economy. Here’s how he tried to change that.
Say goodbye to the GOP leader, but not the all-powerful Supreme Court that is his legacy.
He delivered for the old GOP — but the party had changed underneath him.
It weaponizes the practice in a new way.
The GOP tried to use impeachment as a political distraction — and only embarrassed themselves.
Senate negotiations revealed what some Democrats are willing to give up on immigration in 2024.
“He doesn’t want us to solve the border problem because he wants to blame Biden for it.”
While far-right Republicans make it hard to keep the government running, others in their party have been reaching constructive legislative compromises.
PEPFAR saved millions of people from AIDS. Don’t let it die.
Even by House GOP standards, 2023 was absurd.
Everything Congress has procrastinated on and needs to do in the new year, explained.
Should Congress fail to extend aid to Ukraine, it would “change the character of the war.”
The White House is reportedly open to making concessions to Republicans in its negotiations over aid to Ukraine and Israel that go far beyond border security.
A simple question about genocide at a congressional hearing obscured a complicated debate about antisemitism and free speech.
House Republicans voted to launch an inquiry despite no evidence of Biden’s wrongdoing.
The party is fractured over President Joe Biden’s unequivocal support for Israel as the war in Gaza continues ahead of 2024.