Congressional leaders have finally reached an agreement on a two-year deal that would lift budget caps on defense and domestic spending, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced Wednesday afternoon.
President Trump said Tuesday that he would ‘love to see a shutdown’ over immigration if Democrats don’t come to the table to negotiate on border security and other stiff enforcement measures, escalating the stakes with less than four weeks to go before a deadline for action.
The House voted Tuesday to avert another government shutdown, approving a bill to fund the military for the rest of the year and domestic operations for six more weeks, as all sides sounded optimistic about a broader deal.
The House could vote as early as Tuesday on a stopgap bill to fund the government through March 22, according to multiple GOP sources.
Over the strong objections of his own Justice Department, President Donald Trump will clear the way for the publication of a classified memo on the Russia investigation that Republicans say shows improper use of surveillance by the FBI, White House officials said Thursday.
Pro-Life Groups are not giving up in their fight for unborn babies in the United States – despite the “Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act” failing in the Senate.
A train carrying members of Congress to a Republican retreat in West Virginia slammed into a garbage truck Wednesday, throwing lawmakers from their seats and leaving at least one person dead, officials said.
Trey Gowdy is done with politics. The House Oversight Committee Chairman for years has joked privately about quitting Congress and returning home to South Carolina. On Wednesday, he finally pulled the plug — likely for good.
Branding North Korea’s leadership ‘depraved,’ President Donald Trump told Americans on Tuesday that Pyongyang’s pursuit of nuclear missiles could ‘very soon threaten our homeland’ and vowed a continued campaign of maximum pressure to keep that from happening.
Plans by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to halt hurricane relief supplies to Puerto Rico drew criticism Tuesday from members of Congress and the mayor of the island’s largest city.
President Trump used his State of the Union speech Tuesday to urge Congress to end caps on defense spending so the U.S. can modernize its nuclear arsenal.
President Trump asked Congress on Tuesday to pass an infrastructure package that would ultimately be worth $1.5 trillion, increasing the amount of investment in infrastructure over what he requested of lawmakers the last time he appeared before a joint session of Congress.
The Trump administration said on Monday it would not immediately impose additional sanctions on Russia under a new law designed to punish Moscow’s alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, insisting the measure was already hitting Russian companies.
The Republican-led House Intelligence Committee voted Monday to invoke an obscure congressional rule to force the release a classified memo written by Republicans that outlines what they say are abuses of federal surveillance authorities.
President Donald Trump is set to unveil his $1.7 trillion infrastructure plan during his State of the Union Address Tuesday night during a joint session of Congress.
Russian internet trolls created over 100 events displayed to Facebook users during the 2016 U.S. presidential race, in turn reaching more than a quarter of a million unique accounts during the course of Moscow’s alleged election meddling, the social network revealed in congressional testimony released Thursday.
President Trump on Monday will release his own framework for an immigration deal, the White House said Wednesday, saying he’s determined to lead Congress to a solution.
US Vice President Mike Pence’s speech at the Israeli Knesset on Monday was warmly praised by a number of major American-Jewish groups.
The government will reopen on Tuesday after President Trump signed a temporary spending bill that will keep the government open until Feb. 8.
The political debate over the fate of ‘DREAMers’ — undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children — has overlooked just how many there are in the country today: about 3.6 million.