A deadline looming, Congress is charging toward a federal government shutdown.

There’s bipartisan support in Congress for extending tax credits that have made health insurance more affordable for millions of people since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is willing to risk a government shutdown at the end of the month if Republicans don’t accept Democratic demands on health care.

Republicans are taking the first steps to change the rules of the Senate to confirm more of President Donald Trump’s nominees.

Senate Republicans have barely defeated an effort by Democrats to insert language into Congress’ annual defense authorization bill that would have forced the public release of case files on the sex trafficking investigation into the late Jeffrey Epstein.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune says Republicans are ready to change the chamber’s rules to allow quick confirmations of dozens of President Donald Trump’s executive branch nominees.

Republican senators say they are prepared to change the chamber’s rules to get around the Democratic blockade of President Donald Trump’s nominees, discussing a proposal to make it easier to confirm multiple nominees at once.

Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy’s support was crucial to Robert F.

Lawmakers have left Washington for the annual August recess, but a few weeks of relative quiet at the U.S. Capitol can’t mask the partisan tensions that are brewing on government funding and President Donald Trump’s nominees.

The Senate is leaving Washington Saturday night for its monthlong August recess without a deal to advance dozens of President Donald Trump’s nominees.

A stalemate over the pace of confirmations has delayed the Senate’s yearly August recess for now as President Donald Trump declares that his nominees “should NOT BE FORCED TO WAIT.”.

President Donald Trump’s latest tariff moves drew worries from Wall Street as stocks slumped Friday and Treasury yields fell sharply.

Democrats still in the dumps over last year’s elections have found cause for optimism in North Carolina, where former Gov. Roy Cooper jumped into the race for that state’s newly open seat with a vow to address voters’ persistent concerns about making ends meet.

A growing number of Jewish Americans are urging Israel to ensure humanitarian aid reaches Gaza, though the ongoing war with Hamas remains a tension point.

Senate Republicans are considering changing Senate rules to speed up confirmation of President Donald Trump’s executive branch nominees, forcing a possible clash with Democrats as Trump pressures them to fill dozens of administration posts before they leave town for the monthlong August recess.

Congressional leaders are already starting to trade blame for a government shutdown, two months before the funding deadline.

The Senate has narrowly voted to begin considering the nomination of former Trump lawyer Emil Bove for a lifetime appointment as a federal appeals court judge.

Republicans are encountering some early headaches in Senate races viewed as pivotal to maintaining the party’s majority next year.

When House Speaker Mike Johnson gifted to President Donald Trump the gavel used to enact the Republicans' tax breaks and spending bill, it was a memorable moment at the White House.

The Senate has passed Donald Trump’s request to cancel about $9 billion in foreign aid and public broadcasting spending, moving forward on one of the president’s top priorities despite concerns from several Republican senators.

President Donald Trump is downplaying the possibility of sending Ukraine long-range weapons as Kyiv awaits an injection of U.S. weaponry that it hopes will help it beat back an intensifying Russian air offensive.

Senate Republicans have advanced President Donald Trump’s request to cancel some $9 billion in previously approved spending.

The Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump’s first judicial pick of his second term, voting along party lines to approve Whitney Hermandorfer as a judge for the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Senate Republicans are putting the popularity of Department of Government Efficiency spending cuts to the test this week.

The co-sponsors of new bipartisan U.S. sanctions package targeting Russia have briefed European allies and Ukraine on the legislation.

The House has passed the massive tax and spending cuts package that President Donald Trump calls “beautiful,” getting it to his desk a day before the July 4 deadline that he had set.

Roughly 11.8 million adults and kids will be at risk for losing health insurance if Republicans’ domestic policy package becomes a law.

House Republicans strained through a day of starts and stops trying to advance President Donald Trump’s tax and spending cuts package.

Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska convinced Senate leaders to change their massive tax and spending cuts package to benefit her state and eventually voted for the legislation, ensuring its passage.

Senate Republicans have hauled President Donald Trump’s big tax breaks and spending cuts bill to passage on the narrowest of votes, pushing past opposition from Democrats and some in their own GOP ranks after a turbulent overnight session.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune says Republicans “got the job done” in passing President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts.

Possible changes to President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts are being considered, though most of the amendments are expected to fail.

The Senate’s long day of voting has churned toward evening, as Republican leaders grasp for ways to shore up support for President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts.

The changes made to President Donald Trump’s big tax bill in the Senate would pile trillions onto the nation’s debt load while resulting in even steeper losses in health care coverage, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said in a new analysis, adding to the challenges for Republicans as they try to muscle the bill to passage.

Debate has been underway late into the night in the Senate on President Donald Trump’s big tax breaks and spending cuts package.

Senate Republicans voted in a dramatic Saturday session, clearing a key procedural step as they race to pass President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and bolstered deportation funds by his July Fourth deadline.

Republican efforts to loosen regulations on gun silencers and short-barreled rifles and shotguns have been dealt a big setback.

Senate Republicans appear to have President Donald Trump’s big bill back on track after a flurry of last-minute revisions.

A few Republicans are reacting with indignation after the Senate parliamentarian advised that some of the measures in their tax and immigration bill could not be included in the legislation.

Congressional Republicans agreed to remove the so-called revenge tax provision from President Donald Trump’s big bill Thursday after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent asked members of Congress to do so earlier in the day.

One key issue stalling progress on President Donald Trump’s big bill in Congress is particularly daunting.

President Donald Trump says “NO ONE GOES ON VACATION” until the big, beautiful bill is on his desk by the Fourth of July deadline.

President Donald Trump's decision to take military action in Iran has reignited debate over the War Powers Act.

President Donald Trump’s decision to launch a military strike on Iran’s nuclear sites without fully consulting the U.S. Congress is layering a partisan approach onto a risky action.

President Donald Trump’s bombardment of three sites in Iran has quickly sparked debate in Congress over his authority to launch the strikes, with Republicans praising Trump for decisive action even as many Democrats warned he should have sought congressional approval.

House and Senate Republicans are taking different approaches when it comes to the tax cuts that lawmakers are looking to include in their massive tax bill.

President Donald Trump is urging Iran to make a nuclear deal now that Israel has launched strikes against the country.

Senate Democrats were shaken to the core after seeing videos of officers aggressively pushing California Sen. Alex Padilla out of a press conference with the Homeland Security secretary and eventually restraining him on the floor outside the room.

The House has passed bipartisan legislation aimed at cracking down on fentanyl.

Democratic U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla of California has been forcefully removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s news conference in Los Angeles and handcuffed by officers as he tried to speak up about immigration raids that have led to protests in California and elsewhere.

President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” includes more than tax breaks and spending cuts — it also seeks to pour billions of dollars into his mass deportation agenda.

President Donald Trump likes to say he’s bringing in trillions of dollars in investments from foreign countries.

The Senate has set an ambitious timeline to pass President Donald Trump’s sweeping legislation to cut taxes and spending.

Chiseling away at President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act.

The tax cuts in President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill would likely gouge a $2.4 trillion hole in the federal budget.

President Donald Trump said it might be better to let Ukraine and Russia “fight for a while” before pulling them apart and pursuing peace.

Only six months into the job, Senate Majority Leader John Thune faces a massive challenge as he tries to quickly pass President Donald Trump’s sprawling tax and spending cuts package.

President Donald Trump’s big bill is likely to unleash trillions in tax cuts and slash spending, but also spike deficits by $2.4 trillion over the decade and leave some 10.9 million more people without health insurance.

President Donald Trump is resurrecting the travel ban policy from his first term.

Elon Musk has blasted President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” of tax breaks and spending cuts as a “disgusting abomination."

President Donald Trump wants his “big, beautiful” bill of tax breaks and spending cuts on his desk to be signed into law by Independence Day.

A new analysis finds that more than $14 billion in clean energy projects in the U.S. have been canceled this year.

House Republicans are jubilant about muscling through President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” tax and immigration package by a single vote.

The budget reconciliation bill passed by House Republicans early Thursday would gut clean energy tax credits that Democrats approved three years ago.

Senate Republicans have voted to establish a new precedent that will allow them to roll back clean air standards in California, including a rule phasing out the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035.

The U.S. Senate is moving forward with an effort to block California's nation-leading standards for vehicle emissions.

The U.S. Senate will move this week to block California from enforcing a series of vehicle emissions standards that are tougher than the federal government’s, including first-in-the-nation rules phasing out the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035.

President Donald Trump’s abrupt firing of top officials at the Library of Congress and equally sudden attempt to appoint a slate of loyalists as replacements has morphed into an enormous fight over the separation of powers.

For President Donald Trump, accepting a free Air Force One replacement from Qatar is a no-brainer.

President Donald Trump’s agreement with China to temporarily slash tariffs for 90 days offered the world a bit of welcome relief.

Senate Democrats have blocked legislation to regulate a form of cryptocurrency after arguing that the bill needed stronger protections.

As Republican leaders draft President Donald Trump’s big bill of $4.5 trillion in tax breaks and $1.5 trillion in spending cuts, dozens of more moderate Republicans from contested congressional districts have positioned themselves at the center of the negotiating table.

U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt of Texas may enter his state’s Republican primary for a Senate seat, adding more intrigue to what is already a marquee midterm contest.

The Senate has produced the quickest top-level Cabinet confirmation process in the last 20 years under new Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota.

The Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump’s nominee to become the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Republicans narrowly got their budget plan over the finish line this week.

House Republicans have narrowly approved their budget framework.

As news that President Donald Trump was backing down on most of his tariffs reached a luncheon of Senate Republicans Wednesday, the room reacted with relief, cheers and smiles.

President Donald Trump’s top trade negotiator came under fire Tuesday from senators unnerved by the president’s sweeping global tariffs, a market meltdown and the heightened risk of recession from an upended global trading order.

The White House is sending mixed messages on tariffs as it pursues conflicting goals, frustrating foreign leaders and business executives who are desperate for clarity on a generational overhaul of international trade.

The political battle lines are drawn for a debate in Washington and beyond over a Republican budget plan that’s a cornerstone of President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda.

Republicans in Congress are watching with unease as stock markets tumble in the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs.

The Republican-controlled Senate has approved a budget framework that includes multitrillion-dollar tax breaks and spending cuts.

After months of hinting at a run for U.S. Senate, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's path has become clearer since the dismissal of a federal investigation.

After a long wait, the Senate is launching action on President Donald Trump’s ”“big, beautiful bill” of tax breaks and spending cuts.

An obscure bookkeeping matter has become the latest flashpoint in Congress as Democrats accuse Republicans of violating Senate norms.

Republican senators unveiled a budget proposal that’s central to President Donald Trump’s agenda of tax breaks, spending cuts and border security.

With President Donald Trump’s so-called “Liberation Day” of tariff implementation fast approaching, Senate Democrats are putting Republican support for some of those plans to the test by forcing a vote to nullify the emergency declaration that underpins the tariffs on Canada.

President Donald Trump says he is placing 25% tariffs on auto imports.

Angry over the crush of court rulings against the Trump administration, Republicans in Congress are trying to slap back at the federal judiciary.

The Senate has passed a bill that would result in more prison sentences for fentanyl traffickers.

The Senate has passed a Republican-led six-month spending bill hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic opposition to the measure.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has announced he's ready to start the process of considering a Republican-led spending bill to prevent a midnight Friday government shutdown.

The House has passed legislation to avert a partial government shutdown and fund federal agencies through September.

Elon Musk has visited Capitol Hill for private meetings with Republicans about his Department of Government Efficiency's budget slashing.

The Senate has rejected legislation aiming to bar transgender women and girls from participating in school athletic competitions designated for female athletes.

President Donald Trump is heading to Capitol Hill this week to deliver a speech to Congress.

Now that House Republicans have passed an ambitious budget blueprint for President Donald Trump’s agenda, it is time for hard work.

The Senate has confirmed Jamieson Greer to be America’s top trade negotiator.

The commemoration of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine three years ago was mostly a Democratic affair at the U.S. Capitol.