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May 16, 2025
The lawmakers introduced resolutions as anger erupted over a series of deals involving the president, businesses linked to his family and several countries.
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May 16, 2025
Responses to a guest essay about the effects of Medicaid cuts. Also: A third presidential term; a display of faith; loud music in public.
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May 15, 2025
A large tax cut, as well as more money for defense and immigration enforcement, would be financed by slashing health, nutrition, education and clean energy programs.
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May 15, 2025
The measure would have compelled the administration to inform Congress about how it is complying with court orders involving deportees to El Salvador and to provide a human rights report on the nation.
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May 15, 2025
The surprise firing of the head of the Library of Congress and efforts to install Trump loyalists at the iconic institution have stirred bipartisan pushback on Capitol Hill.
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May 15, 2025
Concerns about the deficit-stretching potential of President Trump's tax plan is spooking some investors, even as Republicans argue over its particulars.
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May 15, 2025
We look at Trump's agenda in Congress.
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May 14, 2025
Sure, everyone likes gifts. But presidents have to refuse them most of the time.
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May 13, 2025
A Republican known as Kit, he was the state's youngest governor. When he retired from Congress after four terms, he said he didn't want to be the state's oldest senator.
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May 13, 2025
Republicans on Capitol Hill seem unlikely to challenge President Trump as he pushes ethics guardrails around profiting from the presidency to the breaking point.
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May 12, 2025
The Republican senator from Missouri called potentially deep cuts in the program "morally wrong" and "politically suicidal" for his party as it courts working-class voters.
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May 12, 2025
Few policy differences have emerged among the Democrats vying to replace the retiring Senator Richard J. Durbin, while Gov. JB Pritzker's influence looms large.
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May 10, 2025
The party is trying to leverage local entrepreneurs' concerns to argue that President Trump's tariffs are yet another gift to the rich and powerful at the expense of everyday Americans.
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May 09, 2025
In a lengthy Friday night social media screed, the Republican congresswoman savaged her party's leaders as she declared she would not pursue a Senate run.
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May 08, 2025
After telling House lawmakers that the F.B.I. needed more resources, Kash Patel told senators that he agreed with a proposal to slash more than $500 million from the agency.
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May 08, 2025
Democratic supporters of the measure to regulate parts of the industry refused to allow it to move forward amid concerns in their party that President Trump and his family are profiting from cryptocurrency.
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May 08, 2025
The means of Ed Martin's ascent as the leading prosecutor for the U.S. attorney's office in Washington was his path out of power.
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May 08, 2025
Representative Buddy Carter became the first Republican to enter the primary field to take on Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia, one of the nation's most vulnerable Democrats.
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May 08, 2025
Senator Chris Murphy argues voters want to know who's screwing them.
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May 06, 2025
Mr. Bisignano, a former Wall Street executive, will lead an agency upended by big staff cuts and other significant changes.
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May 06, 2025
In the latest chapter in a battle over spending powers, lawmakers charged that the administration removed crucial information in violation of the law. The White House argues the data shouldn't be public.
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May 06, 2025
The nomination of the prosecutor, Ed Martin, has been teetering amid revelations that he once compared former President Biden to Adolf Hitler.
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May 06, 2025
To win back the U.S. Senate in 2026, Democrats will need to compete in some of the most conservative terrain in the country. Shane Goldmacher, a national political correspondent for The New York Times, surveys the Democrats' strategies.
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May 06, 2025
Facing long odds to retake a majority, Senator Chuck Schumer and his allies are trying to think outside the box and recruit candidates who might be able to pull off upsets in red states.
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May 05, 2025
Some Democrats who had supported legislation for so-called stablecoins are now demanding tougher language to prevent fraud and money laundering.
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May 05, 2025
The popular two-term governor of Georgia had been seen as the strongest potential Republican challenger to Senator Jon Ossoff, a Democrat.
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May 05, 2025
Republicans in Congress are clashing over whether to repeal Biden-era clean energy tax credits that are a lifeline for some of their constituents.
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May 03, 2025
As G.O.P. lawmakers have largely ceded power to President Trump, they are also pushing the bounds of a little-known statute to undo federal rules — and potentially undermining the filibuster.
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May 02, 2025
The former chief of staff to Senator John Fetterman last year wrote to a doctor who had treated him, pointing to "warning signs" that suggested the senator could be backsliding on his recovery from a mental health crisis.
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May 02, 2025
Senators expressed concern with a military budget they said was far too scant, and one objected to the plan's gutting of vital programs, including one that offers home heating assistance for the poor.
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May 02, 2025
House Republicans are planning to include several of President Trump's campaign promises in the first draft of the bill, which they hope to release soon.
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May 02, 2025
The president named his first appeals court candidate this week, but fewer vacancies and other priorities have led to a lack of judicial nominations from the White House so far.
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May 01, 2025
Plus, a wiener dog's 529 days in the wild.
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May 01, 2025
Plus, a wiener dog's 529 days in the wild.
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May 01, 2025
Plus, a wiener dog's 529 days in the wild.
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Apr 30, 2025
Only three Republicans joined Democrats in voting to end the national emergency President Trump declared to impose tariffs on most U.S. trading partners, leaving the measure short of the support needed to pass.
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Apr 30, 2025
Republicans have raced to approve the president's picks to serve as top diplomats around the globe, in some cases with solid backing from Democrats.
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Apr 29, 2025
The women were sent to Europe to clear a backlog of 17 million pieces of mail waiting to be sent to U.S. troops.
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Apr 28, 2025
The conservative senator from Missouri, better known for his raised fist in solidarity with Trump supporters on Jan. 6, is embracing a key rhetorical theme in the president's political ascendancy.
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Apr 28, 2025
Republican lawmakers are set to lay out specifics of their sweeping fiscal package as Congress returns for a critical month, giving Democrats an opening for fresh attacks.
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Apr 23, 2025
Senator Richard J. Durbin's departure will set off a primary for a rare open Senate seat in Illinois and open a top leadership slot. He said it was time to "face reality" and make way for someone new.
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Apr 22, 2025
Five Democrats met with Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk, who face deportation by the Trump administration.
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Apr 22, 2025
The primary race in Kentucky for Mr. McConnell's seat is expected to be one of the biggest G.O.P. clashes of 2026. On Tuesday, it gained its second high-profile contender, Representative Andy Barr.
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Apr 22, 2025
The Democratic representative from suburban Detroit is likely to be seen as a centrist in the primary contest to replace Senator Gary Peters, who is retiring.
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Apr 20, 2025
"Facilitating his return means something more than doing nothing, and they are doing nothing," Senator Chris Van Hollen said after his trip to El Salvador.
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Apr 18, 2025
Senator Chris Van Hollen said that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia,who was deported and incarcerated in El Salvador, reported having been transferred after weeks in a maximum-security prison.
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Apr 18, 2025
Lisa Murkowski, a longtime senator from Alaska and an independent voice in an increasingly tribal party, has been the rare Republican on Capitol Hill willing to criticize President Trump's actions.
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Apr 18, 2025
Plus, meat is making a comeback.
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Apr 18, 2025
Earlier in the day, armed military officials stopped Senator Chris Van Hollen from trying to visit the prison where Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia has been held for over a month.
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Apr 17, 2025
Out of power in Congress, Democrats who were slow to fight back against President Trump are increasingly finding ways to do so. But activists want much more.
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Apr 17, 2025
Plus, a capybara controversy in Argentina.
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Apr 17, 2025
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive former public health official, is joining the Democratic race to succeed Senator Gary Peters, who is retiring.
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Apr 17, 2025
Trump is disappearing people to a Salvadoran prison for terrorists. And he says he wants to send "homegrown" Americans there next.
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Apr 16, 2025
Senator Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat, said he had not yet been allowed to see Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran immigrant who was mistakenly deported by the Trump administration and imprisoned.
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Apr 16, 2025
Senator Chuck Schumer had said he would block the permanent appointment of Jay Clayton, the president's choice to head one of the nation's most prestigious prosecutor's offices.
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Apr 16, 2025
Bernie Sanders and his apparent heir, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have drawn enormous crowds on their "Fighting Oligarchy" tour, energizing a beaten-down Democratic Party.
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Apr 16, 2025
An arcane Senate tradition effectively gives senators veto power over nominees for U.S. attorney in their home states, providing Democrats a potential opening to stop President Trump's picks.
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Apr 15, 2025
The Iowa Republican was pressed on President Trump's policies, including the case of a Salvadoran immigrant who his administration has admitted it mistakenly sent to a prison in El Salvador.
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Apr 15, 2025
Senator Chuck Grassley, Republican of Iowa, was confronted by constituents who demanded that he help secure the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was deported last month.
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Apr 15, 2025
Fire departments say prices for new engines have soared and orders are backlogged for years. Two senators are investigating whether investors who have disrupted the industry are the reason.
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Apr 14, 2025
The Republican former congressman, who was narrowly beaten by Elissa Slotkin in a marquee Senate matchup in 2024, hopes to fill the seat being vacated by Senator Gary Peters.
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Apr 12, 2025
The employee was a longtime counterintelligence analyst who had worked on the F.B.I.'s investigation examining Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
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Apr 11, 2025
The employee was a longtime counterintelligence analyst who had worked on the F.B.I.'s investigation examining Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
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Apr 11, 2025
Conservatives in the House say they won't back any package without deep cuts that would all but certainly affect the health program. Some Senate Republicans say they won't accept such cuts.
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Apr 11, 2025
Lt. Gen. Dan Caine will serve as the senior military adviser to President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
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Apr 10, 2025
A critical bloc of fiscal hawks dropped its opposition after a pledge from the top Senate Republican that his chamber would embrace far deeper cuts than the measure would require.
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Apr 10, 2025
House Republicans are so intent on avoiding tough votes on President Trump's tariffs that they have rewritten the calendar.
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Apr 10, 2025
The A.T.F. has been hit by the departure of key career officials, the diversion of agents from core duties to immigration enforcement and from what amounts to a campaign of indifference.
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Apr 10, 2025
A critical bloc of fiscal hawks dropped its opposition after a pledge from the top Senate Republican that his chamber would embrace far deeper cuts than the measure would require.
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Apr 10, 2025
Most Republicans welcomed the unexpected three-month pause on several of President Trump's tariffs, but some want more clarity about the president's end game and more power for Congress over trade.
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Apr 09, 2025
Jared Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur who has twice launched to orbit in a SpaceX vehicle, faced pointed questions from senators of both parties before the Senate on Wednesday.
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Apr 09, 2025
President Trump's next round of tariffs on major trading partners went into effect just after midnight, bringing levies on China to at least 104 percent.
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Apr 09, 2025
Jared Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur who has twice launched to orbit in a SpaceX vehicle, will testify before the Senate on Wednesday.
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Apr 08, 2025
The announcement by Mr. Paxton, the attorney general of Texas and a firebrand conservative, set up what is expected to be a blockbuster showdown in Texas.
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Apr 08, 2025
Jamieson Greer, the United States trade representative, and other Trump administration officials said the United States was ready to negotiate but that would not stop stiff tariffs from taking effect.
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Apr 08, 2025
Jamieson Greer, the United States trade representative, testified before senators as the Trump administration faced blowback from trading partners, businesses and investors over sweeping tariffs.
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Apr 08, 2025
Anti-spending conservatives in the House are lining up to oppose the Senate's budget blueprint because it would add too much to the nation's debt, threatening President Trump's agenda.
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Apr 08, 2025
Jamieson Greer, the United States trade representative, told senators the U.S. economy was in need of "drastic, overdue change."
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Apr 08, 2025
Jamieson Greer, the United States trade representative, will tell senators the U.S. is economy is in need of "drastic, overdue change."
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Apr 08, 2025
The former New Hampshire governor had been seen as a top Republican recruit in the liberal-leaning yet competitive state. President Trump had said on Sunday, "I hope he runs."
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Apr 06, 2025
Senate Republicans are hoping to ice Democrats out from deciding the fate of President Trump's 2017 tax cuts, a move that Democrats could eventually use against them.
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Apr 06, 2025
States that were once reluctant to expand Medicaid now have their state budgets tied to the fate of the program by constitutional amendments.
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Apr 05, 2025
Representative Rob Bresnahan Jr., who campaigned on prohibiting stock trading by members of Congress, has emerged as one of the most active stock traders in the freshman class.
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Apr 05, 2025
Republicans pushed through their blueprint for tax and spending cuts after Democrats forced them to cast politically painful votes into the early morning on every element of President Trump's agenda.
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Apr 04, 2025
With Republicans driving toward a vote on their tax and spending cut blueprint, Democrats are forcing them to cast politically painful votes on every element of President Trump's agenda.
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Apr 04, 2025
With Republicans driving toward a vote on their tax and spending cut blueprint, Democrats plan to force them to cast politically painful votes on every element of President Trump's agenda.
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Apr 04, 2025
Some Republicans are uneasy that their party is pursuing a tactic that could weaken the filibuster and backfire in the future.
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Apr 03, 2025
Mr. Pappas, a 44-year-old Democratic congressman, is the first major candidate to enter the race to succeed the retiring Senator Jeanne Shaheen.
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Apr 02, 2025
A measure to cancel some Canadian tariffs is all but certain to stall in the House. But with a handful of Republicans in favor, the vote sent a signal of opposition to the levies.
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Apr 02, 2025
G.O.P. leaders are planning to use the "nuclear option" to steer around the Senate's in-house referee and allow the use of a gimmick that makes trillions of dollars in tax cuts appear to be free.
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Apr 02, 2025
What happens to your body when you deliver a 25-hour speech without any breaks?
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Apr 02, 2025
Passage would send a strong signal of bipartisan opposition to the levies, though the measure would face long odds in the House.
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Apr 02, 2025
The 38-year-old Democratic state lawmaker says that her party needs a generational shift.
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Apr 02, 2025
Many Democrats, including in Mr. Booker's home state of New Jersey, reveled in his stamina and moxie as he assailed President Trump in the longest Senate speech on record.
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Apr 02, 2025
Plus, Val Kilmer's legacy.
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Apr 02, 2025
Plus, Val Kilmer's legacy.
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Apr 02, 2025
In an interview, the Texas attorney general attacked Senator John Cornyn as out of touch, and said he had talked to people close to President Trump about an endorsement.
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Apr 01, 2025
El senador por Nueva Jersey, Cory Booker, comenzó su discurso a las 7 p. m. del lunes, prometiendo hablar mientras fuera "físicamente capaz". El discurso duró más de 24 horas.
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Apr 01, 2025
The New Jersey senator spent much of his speech, which ended after more than 25 hours, assailing the Trump administration. He eclipsed Strom Thurmond's filibuster of a civil rights bill in 1957.
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Apr 01, 2025
The New Jersey senator began his speech on Monday night, saying the "nation is in crisis." He was still going on Tuesday afternoon.
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