Congress controls the power of the purse, but Republicans on Capitol Hill have put up little resistance to efforts by the ...

Sen. Todd Young didn’t back Donald Trump in 2024. But that didn’t stop Young from calling the president this past weekend as ...

While Democrats say Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has illegally forced its way into USAID and the Treasury Department, Republicans have framed the moves as a White House effort to ...

According to President Sheinbaum, Mexico has cut a deal with the U.S. to delay the tariffs. Under the deal, she said Mexico ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters Monday he’s taking a wait-and-see approach to President Trump’s ...

The framers of the Constitution imagined Congress as the preeminent branch of government. But many Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill seem content to play second fiddle.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune opened Friday's session saying that Hegseth ... Trump raised the idea of so-called “recess appointments” during a private White House meeting with Thune and House ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump's pick to be secretary of Health and Human Services, arrives for a meeting with Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., in Russell building on Wednesday ...

A federal judge blocked the freeze, but Democrats and Republicans are trying to figure out how it could affect programs.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt took to social media to clarify that state Medicaid portals are still being ...

The aggressive posture, inspired by Trump, meant going after not only Democrats, the media and Hegseth’s accusers — but also their own party.

The Trump administration will temporarily stop payments on multiple federal programs, cutting off Americans who rely on ...