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Oct 24, 2025
The president said he wouldn't seek congressional approval for his expanding military offensive against cartels, but some in his party believe Congress should weigh in.
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Oct 23, 2025
The president said he would bypass Congress rather than ask for approval for his military campaign against drug traffickers, even as he said it would expand from sea to land.
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Oct 23, 2025
A Republican measure that would pay essential government employees faltered in the Senate, and the G.O.P. blocked a pair of Democratic bills to pay a broader swath of workers.
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Oct 23, 2025
We explain what elected officials aren't doing during the government shutdown.
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Oct 22, 2025
The Oregon Democrat achieved a goal of topping the previous longest speech by a senator from his state.
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Oct 22, 2025
"It's like we have given up," one Republican lawmaker said.
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Oct 22, 2025
Graham Platner, a Democrat, had acknowledged the tattoo this week on a podcast. He also sought to distance himself from old Reddit posts that drew criticism.
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Oct 22, 2025
Phil Brest, a veteran of the judicial confirmation wars, will head the American Constitution Society at a time of legal turmoil.
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Oct 22, 2025
Graham Platner, a Democrat, said he would remove the tattoo. He also sought to distance himself from old Reddit posts that drew criticism.
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Oct 22, 2025
Term limits would help bring our divided nation together.
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Oct 21, 2025
At least four Republican senators, including the majority leader, signaled their opposition to Paul Ingrassia, the president's pick to lead the corruption-fighting Office of Special Counsel.
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Oct 21, 2025
The fact that Paul Ingrassia's nomination got this far illustrates how much antisemitic and hateful rhetoric has been explained away or rewarded by Republicans in power.
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Oct 21, 2025
Lawyers for the special counsel, who investigated Donald J. Trump, denied accusations by Republican lawmakers that he had surveilled or spied on senators as part of his inquiry.
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Oct 21, 2025
At least four Republican senators, including the Senate majority leader, signaled their opposition to Paul Ingrassia, the president's pick to lead the Office of Special Counsel.
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Oct 20, 2025
Representative Robert Garcia and Senator Richard Blumenthal started an inquiry to examine reports of misconduct by immigration agents, focusing on the arrests of citizens.
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Oct 20, 2025
Motions by lawyers for the former F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, sought to dismiss the case in a two-front assault.
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Oct 20, 2025
Lessons from a Democrat who won in a Republican state.
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Oct 20, 2025
Senator Ruben Gallego says Democrats must strategize more shrewdly. President Trump's base has "already set up the field to fight in," he says. "They have all the information and we're just playing catch-up.
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Oct 20, 2025
Lessons from a Democrat who won in a Republican state.
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Oct 19, 2025
The spending showdown has highlighted Republicans' failure to produce an alternative to Obamacare, which many of them assail but concede is too politically risky to undo.
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Oct 18, 2025
The Trump administration risks squandering the progress it has made in securing the border.
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Oct 18, 2025
La medida tiene pocas posibilidades, dada la falta de voluntad de la mayoría de los legisladores republicanos para desafiar al presidente Donald Trump, quien con toda seguridad la vetaría.
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Oct 18, 2025
What explains the Republican Party's posture toward these protests?
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Oct 18, 2025
As the shutdown nears a fourth week, President Trump has pushed his political opponents to further dig in.
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Oct 18, 2025
Why Congress should take up Insurrection Act reform.
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Oct 17, 2025
Democrats are battling each other over age, with the nation's oldest president in office.
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Oct 17, 2025
The bid comes after the Senate rejected a similar measure to curb President Trump's attacks against alleged drug runners in the Caribbean Sea.
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Oct 16, 2025
Democrats want guarantees that President Trump will not continue to claw back spending, ignoring any agreement they strike. But he has promised to keep defying Congress.
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Oct 16, 2025
The former Senate Republican leader has had a series of health episodes, including falls, in recent years. He plans to retire in 2027.
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Oct 16, 2025
For Jon Ossoff, the most endangered Senate Democrat, the shutdown fight could rally support among some voters, but risks alienating others in a state President Trump won in 2024.
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Oct 15, 2025
The top Senate Democrat said the president and Republican leaders had an "obligation to denounce vile rhetoric," even when it comes from within their own party.
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Oct 15, 2025
Mr. Moulton, a 46-year-old fellow Democrat, released a video emphasizing the age difference between himself and Mr. Markey, 79.
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Oct 14, 2025
A two-term Democratic governor, Ms. Mills called herself "battle tested" in an interview. But she faces a Democratic primary before she can challenge the Republican incumbent.
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Oct 11, 2025
The president said he had identified funds even though Congress has not appropriated new money for the military.
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Oct 11, 2025
What the polling says, who's up, who's down — and when it might end.
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Oct 11, 2025
In 1955, a New York Times copy editor refused to say whether he had once belonged to the Communist Party and was subsequently fired.
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Oct 11, 2025
The president's move to fire federal workers and his threats to make others go without pay were aimed at pressuring Democrats to cut a deal to reopen the government. The tactics have fueled Democrats' resolve.
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Oct 10, 2025
Most Democrats left President Trump conspicuously unmentioned as they cheered a potential end to the conflict, reflecting the tricky politics around the war and their party's deep hostility to Mr. Trump.
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Oct 10, 2025
It is a well-worn strategy to temporarily create a government benefit and hope that its eventual expiration will create a standoff like the shutdown fight.
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Oct 09, 2025
The legislation would provide a 3.8 percent pay raise for American troops, while funding weapons and overhauling military procurement.
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Oct 09, 2025
The threat of rising Obamacare premiums has been Democrats' main focus in the public debate, but the president's defiance of laws, norms and congressional constraints has helped hold them together in opposition.
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Oct 08, 2025
Republicans in the Senate blocked a measure that would terminate the president's legally disputed campaign targeting alleged drug runners.
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Oct 08, 2025
Two Democratic senators from Arizona confronted Speaker Mike Johnson over his refusal to swear in a newly elected House Democrat, Adelita Grijalva, who had won a special election in their state last month. They also fought over the government shutdown and the Epstein files.
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Oct 08, 2025
Readers respond to a guest essay about vaccine debates. Also: Attorney General Pam Bondi's performance; wildfire smoke and our health.
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Oct 08, 2025
As the federal closure slides into a second week, Republicans are working to peel off five more Democratic senators to join them in voting to reopen the government.
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Oct 07, 2025
The session before a Senate panel featured more fireworks than facts as Democrats and the attorney general repeatedly clashed.
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Oct 07, 2025
At a Senate committee hearing, the attorney general avoided answering pointed queries by repeatedly laying into her questioners and casting her responses as a defense of the Trump administration.
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Oct 07, 2025
Attorney General Pam Bondi sidestepped many questions from Democrats during a combative Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, often instead launching personal attacks on her questioners.
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Oct 07, 2025
Even President Trump has conceded that he and his party could face political pain from rising premiums, stiffening Democrats' spines as they demand a subsidy extension.
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Oct 07, 2025
Attorney General Pam Bondi refused to take questions from Democrats during a combative Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday. She dodged questioning on the Jeffrey Epstein files and the White House border czar Tom Homan's dropped investigation, and launched personal attacks against Democratic senators.
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Oct 07, 2025
The government shutdown fight has spotlighted a debate between Republicans and Democrats about whether and how much the government should subsidize health care.
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Oct 07, 2025
At a Senate committee hearing, the attorney general avoided answering pointed queries by repeatedly laying into her questioners and casting her responses as a defense of the Trump administration.
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Oct 07, 2025
At a hearing with Attorney General Pam Bondi, Republican senators seized on the collection of their phone records by the F.B.I. as proof of politicization by the Biden administration.
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Oct 06, 2025
As Republicans try to pin blame for shutdown damage on Democrats, they are hailing a federal bureaucracy they normally bash as wasteful and overreaching.
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Oct 06, 2025
Mr. Hunt, a U.S. House member, and Senator John Cornyn will be competing for voters who dislike the state's attorney general, Ken Paxton, who has led in many polls.
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Oct 06, 2025
Republicans' exploitation of the government's closure is the tell that they prefer it this way.
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Oct 05, 2025
Senator Chuck Schumer and Speaker Mike Johnson each accused the other of not being "serious" about talks to end the shutdown as the government was closed for a fifth day.
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Oct 05, 2025
Republicans, who hold a governing trifecta, have adopted a mostly passive stance while Democrats dig in for a fight, with both feeling they have the political upper hand.
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Oct 05, 2025
The Democrats need to understand that woke can be good business.
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Oct 04, 2025
This week, the round table convenes to discuss who wins and who loses when the government shuts down.
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Oct 04, 2025
The California politician on his "wake-up call" at an earlier moment of political upheaval, and the one he's experiencing today.
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Oct 02, 2025
Republicans are proposing a straight extension of government spending, while Democrats are demanding the addition of over $1 trillion for health programs.
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Oct 02, 2025
It's the second day of a shutdown of the federal government. We explain what's happening.
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Oct 01, 2025
Unlike in shutdowns past, President Trump is the wild card.
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Oct 01, 2025
President Trump posted the video meme, which Representative Hakeem Jeffries called racist and bigoted. Vice President JD Vance said the president was "joking, and we're having a good time."
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Oct 01, 2025
Trump administration officials also directed federal employees to include Republican talking points in automated email replies explaining that they had been furloughed.
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Oct 01, 2025
Dueling proposals to end the government shutdown failed in the Senate on Wednesday. There was no end in sight to the deadlock as neither party showed signs of bowing to the other's government spending demands.
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Oct 01, 2025
Two Democratic senators and one independent who caucuses with them crossed party lines to support the G.O.P. plan to keep government funding flowing.
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Oct 01, 2025
The inboxes of some employees of the Small Business Administration are returning automated email replies that deliver a partisan message on the shutdown.
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Oct 01, 2025
In letters to consultants and the College Board, House and Senate Judiciary leaders invoked antitrust law and asked how student data feeds pricing algorithms.
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Oct 01, 2025
Dueling proposals to extend government funding both failed for the third time in two weeks, as neither party could muster the bipartisan coalition needed to move forward.
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Oct 01, 2025
In letters to consultants and the College Board, House and Senate Judiciary leaders invoked antitrust law and asked how student data feeds pricing algorithms.
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Oct 01, 2025
The U.S. government shut down on Wednesday at 12:01 a.m. Senator Chuck Schumer explains his decision-making moments before the vote.
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Oct 01, 2025
President Trump is seeking to deprive millions of Americans of their health insurance. Senate Democrats are refusing to acquiesce.
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Oct 01, 2025
James Talarico sees a spiritual void at the center of our society.
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Oct 01, 2025
The last time Senate Democrats found themselves taking the blame for a government shutdown, they quickly caved. That's less likely to happen now.
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Oct 01, 2025
A bitter spending deadlock between President Trump and Democrats plunged the federal government into the first shutdown since 2019.
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Sep 30, 2025
With few senators from conservative states in their ranks, Democrats feel less pressure to capitulate, while more conservative Republicans are not inclined to cut a deal.
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Sep 30, 2025
Dueling proposals to extend government funding failed in the Senate in the final hours before a midnight deadline when neither could draw the bipartisan support necessary to pass.
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Sep 30, 2025
The Senate failed to reach the 60 votes necessary to avoid a shutdown.
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Sep 30, 2025
Democrats have misused budget jargon to assail the Republican budget proposal as "dirty," but the bill is considered "clean."
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Sep 30, 2025
Shutdowns are complicated and could have wide-ranging consequences. Your input can help steer our coverage.
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Sep 30, 2025
President Trump's posting of a deepfake video mocking and insulting the top two Democrats in Congress underscored the lack of progress toward any deal to extend funding.
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Sep 30, 2025
Congress's persistent inability to write and pass spending bills on time has made government shutdowns like the imminent one a routine threat.
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Sep 29, 2025
President Trump met with Republican and Democratic leaders at the White House, but they emerged without a deal, as Democrats seek more health care funding.
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Sep 29, 2025
The top four leaders on Capitol Hill are each facing high stakes and competing political incentives as they barrel toward a shutdown.
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Sep 29, 2025
The top four leaders on Capitol Hill are each facing high stakes and competing political incentives as they barrel toward a shutdown.
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Sep 29, 2025
Coral Davenport, a New York Times reporter, explains how Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, plans to circumvent Congress's budgetary powers to advance the Trump administration's agenda.
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Sep 29, 2025
A blistering assault on economic elites, a moderate stance on cultural issues and a rejection of politics as usual. That's how to remake the Democratic Party.
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Sep 28, 2025
Lawmakers face a Tuesday deadline to fund the government, which will require them to agree on a spending measure that can win at least 60 votes in the Senate.
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Sep 28, 2025
Lawmakers face a Tuesday deadline to fund the government, which will require them to agree on a spending measure that can win at least 60 votes in the Senate.
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Sep 27, 2025
El exdirector del FBI fue imputado el jueves por un cargo de declaración falsa y otro de obstrucción en relación con un testimonio ante el Congreso hace cinco años.
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Sep 27, 2025
The Democrat from New Hampshire has worked to find common ground with the Trump administration on foreign affairs.
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Sep 26, 2025
The charges against the former F.B.I. director center on an appearance he made before a Senate committee in September 2020. Here's a closer look.
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Sep 26, 2025
The court's conservative majority allowed the president to cut the funding in part because it said his flexibility to engage in foreign affairs outweighed "the potential harm" faced by aid recipients.
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Sep 26, 2025
A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, on one count of making a false statement and one count of obstruction of a congressional proceeding. The indictment came amid extraordinary pressure from President Trump on prosecutors to pursue the case as retribution against Mr. Comey, a longtime antagonist.
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Sep 26, 2025
The former F.B.I. director was indicted Thursday on one count of making a false statement and one count of obstruction in connection with a congressional testimony five years ago.
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Sep 26, 2025
Judge Michael S. Nachmanoff, a Biden appointee, previously handled the 2019 arraignment of two associates of Rudolph W. Giuliani, among other high-profile cases.
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Sep 26, 2025
As despots have done for centuries, Trump is persecuting people he considers his enemies, with little justification other than raw political power.
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Sep 26, 2025
The Trump administration wants to cancel some spending through a budget maneuver with disturbing ramifications.
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