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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
The Republican speaker, who has mostly wielded power by relying on the threat of retribution from President Trump, has chosen an institutional fight it's not clear he can win.
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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
Energizados contra la nueva era Trump, y contra Elon Musk, los demócratas lograron una victoria judicial clave en Wisconsin y acortaron los márgenes republicanos en dos comicios al Congreso en Florida.
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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
Energized against the new Trump era, and against Elon Musk, Democrats pulled off a crucial judicial victory in Wisconsin and cut into Republican margins in two Florida congressional races.
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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 Republicans who were elected on Tuesday to fill seats left empty by Matt Gaetz and Michael Waltz had President Trump's backing.
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Apr 01, 2025
The Republicans who were elected on Tuesday to fill seats left empty by Matt Gaetz and Michael Waltz had President Trump's backing.
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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
Nine Republicans joined Democrats to force a vote to allow members who had new children to vote by proxy.
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Apr 01, 2025
What on earth are Republican leaders thinking in trying to stop a Republican proposal to make it easier for new parents to vote in Congress?
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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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Apr 01, 2025
Get live results and maps from the 2025 Florida special elections.
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Apr 01, 2025
Get live results and maps from the 2025 Florida special election.
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Apr 01, 2025
The New Jersey senator criticized the president's plans for Social Security, education, immigration and health care, saying the "nation is in crisis." He began speaking Monday night. He was still going on Tuesday afternoon.
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Apr 01, 2025
The speaker tried to use an unprecedented parliamentary maneuver to deny a bipartisan majority the chance to hold a vote on their proposal to allow new parents to vote remotely in the House.
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Apr 01, 2025
Get live results and maps from the 2025 Florida special election.
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Apr 01, 2025
Senator Josh Hawley, a Republican, pressed Dr. Oz on transgender care and abortion, and now says he will vote for the physician's confirmation to become head of Medicare and Medicaid.
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Apr 01, 2025
Voters in a crucial court race and two House special elections will provide hints of how the country views President Trump and Elon Musk, months after they took power.
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Apr 01, 2025
The New Jersey senator criticized the president's plans for Social Security, education, immigration and health care, saying the "nation is in crisis." He began speaking Monday night and was still going on Tuesday morning.
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Apr 01, 2025
It was not clear whether the speaker would be able to peel off enough Republicans to prevent the measure from coming up because a majority of House members want to consider it.
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Apr 01, 2025
The New Jersey senator criticized the president's plans for Social Security, education and health care, saying the "nation is in crisis." He was still speaking in the predawn hours.
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Apr 01, 2025
Senator Booker, Democrat of New Jersey, spoke for hours, criticizing the Trump administration's policies on Social Security, education, health care and more.
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Apr 01, 2025
Voters in a crucial court race and two House special elections will provide hints of how the country views President Trump and Elon Musk, months after they took power.
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Mar 31, 2025
Down-ballot races in Florida and Wisconsin are seen as a referendum on the White House, while the president's to-be-announced reciprocal tariff plan is increasingly worrying investors and consumers.
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Mar 31, 2025
Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, accused Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas of slow-walking a special election to hold the Republicans' slim majority steady.
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Mar 31, 2025
The problem is that competence and execution matter.
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Mar 31, 2025
The problem is that competence and execution matter.
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Mar 31, 2025
A House race in a deep-red Florida district is seeing millions of dollars in spending ahead of Tuesday's election. Even in a loss, Democrats hope it will signal much-needed momentum.
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Mar 30, 2025
Democrats are hoping to do better in Florida's Sixth District than they did in November, when President Trump won it by 30 points.
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Mar 29, 2025
Representative Victoria Spartz, a Republican, defended Elon Musk's DOGE cuts to the federal government, drawing jeers from the crowd.
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Mar 28, 2025
Voters in two heavily Republican House districts in Florida will decide who to send to Congress. See which party is ahead in turnout so far.
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Mar 28, 2025
Voters in two heavily Republican House districts in Florida will decide who to send to Congress. See which party is ahead in turnout so far.
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Mar 28, 2025
Republicans may seem oblivious to voter discomfort with the administration's excesses, but Elise Stefanik's pulled nomination shows they see trouble ahead.
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Mar 28, 2025
As President Trump and Elon Musk slash deeper into federal programs and the work force, G.O.P. lawmakers are leveraging their connections to try to insulate themselves and their voters.
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Mar 27, 2025
The agency's acting director told senators of the new policy after it was revealed that tracking technology had been disabled before a deadly midair collision in January.
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Mar 27, 2025
The president said he wanted the New York Republican to stay in Congress to bolster the party's slim House margin and protect her seat.
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Mar 27, 2025
About that rule of law …
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Mar 26, 2025
Dark pronouncements by Republicans about a "communist agenda" espoused by public media were intercut with lighter references to "Sesame Street" and "Curious George."
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Mar 26, 2025
Republicans accused the nation's two largest public media networks of institutional bias. Democrats dismissed the hearing as an excuse for Republicans to air a familiar list of grievances against the news media.
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Mar 26, 2025
Instead of clinging to power, he could step down honorably from his leadership role, setting an example for his party and the country.
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Mar 26, 2025
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene criticized PBS for featuring a drag queen named Lil Miss Hot Mess in its children's programming.
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Mar 26, 2025
A Democrat from Louisiana, he pushed for nuclear power and ending the nation's reliance on foreign oil in his four terms on Capitol Hill.
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Mar 26, 2025
Top lawmakers say the White House must provide a full accounting of actions surrounding sensitive military information shared on a text chain that included a journalist.
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Mar 26, 2025
The M.T.A. has a five-year capital budget proposal for critical upgrades to the subway, buses and commuter railroads. The catch: It depends on $14 billion in federal funding.
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Mar 25, 2025
Students sued to stop Columbia from giving their disciplinary records to the federal government, which has demanded that the university rein in demonstrations.
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Mar 25, 2025
Some Republican lawmakers have called for an investigation, but most have shied away from criticizing the Trump administration.
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Mar 25, 2025
A group of House Democrats calling themselves the New Economic Patriots introduced themselves on Capitol Hill promising to lead their party out of its funk. It wasn't clear how they planned to do so.
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Mar 25, 2025
The national security adviser has been walking a tightrope even before the disclosure of the group chat.
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Mar 25, 2025
Frank Bisignano is expected to face questions about the White House's plans for the agency, which supplies monthly benefits to 73 million people and normally moves slowly.
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Mar 25, 2025
Top executives from the public media networks are bracing for a hearing on Wednesday organized by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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Mar 24, 2025
Ms. Love, from Utah, held a seat in the House for two terms until she aroused the enmity of President Trump. She was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2022.
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Mar 24, 2025
An aging star playing to massive crowds of supporters in head-to-toe merch? It's not the Grateful Dead, it's the Fighting Oligarchy tour.
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Mar 24, 2025
A majority of the court appeared skeptical of a challenge to Louisiana's voting map. The challengers had argued the state impermissibly relied on race to draw its map.
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Mar 24, 2025
Cait Conley, a former National Security Council official, will run against Mike Lawler, a second-term Republican.
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Mar 24, 2025
Mr. Brown, the Ohio Democrat who lost his race for re-election last year, is forming the Dignity of Work Institute, which will highlight workers' struggles.
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Mar 24, 2025
The case, which centers on whether Louisiana's congressional districts are an illegal racial gerrymander, tests the leeway that states have in drawing voting maps.
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Mar 23, 2025
Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader, said a government shutdown would have been "10 or 20 times worse" than the Republican stopgap spending bill.
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Mar 23, 2025
With Bernie Sanders unlikely to run for president again and Democratic voters fuming at party leaders, many progressives see an open lane. But who will fill it?
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Mar 23, 2025
Nancy Pelosi has represented San Francisco in Congress for nearly four decades. Challengers are lining up as she weighs running again or retiring.
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Mar 23, 2025
Nancy Pelosi has represented San Francisco in Congress for nearly four decades. Challengers are lining up as she weighs running again or retiring.
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Mar 22, 2025
Senator Steve Daines said in an interview that in meetings with Chinese officials, he called for talks between President Trump and China's leader, Xi Jinping.
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Mar 21, 2025
The senators asked the inspectors general to look at future job cuts as well.
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Mar 21, 2025
A psychiatrist and a patient respond to an article in Science Times. Also: A plea to Congress; an upside-down definition of waste, fraud and abuse.
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Mar 20, 2025
Judges have rarely been removed from the federal bench, and only for criminal acts. But House Republicans are intensifying efforts to oust them for decisions against President Trump.
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Mar 19, 2025
Amid a controversy over whether President Trump will abide by court rulings, Elon Musk gave the maximum to the campaigns of Republicans who back ousting judges who impede the administration.
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Mar 19, 2025
Leaders in the upper chamber of Congress occasionally have to take a political beating to protect their members in tough spots, like the showdown over government funding.
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Mar 19, 2025
The confirmation process of Representative Elise Stefanik, a New York Republican, has been delayed while House Republicans relied on her vote to maintain the slimmest of majorities.
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Mar 19, 2025
The Democrats' best chance to constrain President Trump is retaking control of the House in 2026. Here's how they might do it.
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Mar 19, 2025
The Democrats' best chance to constrain President Trump is retaking control of the House in 2026. Here's how they might do it.
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Mar 18, 2025
Top congressional staffers met with Oracle on Tuesday to talk about TikTok, which faces a ban in the United States unless it is sold to a non-Chinese owner by early April.
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Mar 18, 2025
Derided by the MAGA right and yelled at by the far left, the Senate Democratic leader is inhabiting a very Jewish place right now.
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Mar 18, 2025
A softball question and he was out.
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Mar 17, 2025
In a deeply conservative district and a more liberal one, two Republicans found uncertainty and anxiety about the Trump administration's agenda and their support of it.
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Mar 17, 2025
Responses to Senator Chuck Schumer's reversal on the stopgap spending bill. Also: A Trump threat to law firms; the risk of TB; theaters in peril.
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Mar 17, 2025
Christian Menefee, the outspoken Harris County attorney, jumped into the race for a U.S. House seat representing a heavily Democratic district. But Gov. Greg Abbott has yet to set an election date.
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Mar 17, 2025
A debate over a government shutdown has exploded into an argument about the Democrats' leadership in the Trump era.
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Mar 17, 2025
If Democrats don't get a better grip on what is achievable in Congress, they will fall victim to the infighting that has long plagued Republicans.
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Mar 16, 2025
Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, continued to face criticism from members of his own party after he reversed course and allowed the stopgap spending bill to come to a vote.
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Mar 16, 2025
A Democrat, she represented Westchester County for three decades and became the first woman to lead the powerful House Appropriations Committee.
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Mar 16, 2025
The Senate minority leader discusses the backlash to his vote on the Republican spending bill, how he sees his role within the party and his new book.
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Mar 16, 2025
Mr. Waltz has worked hard to burnish his credentials among the president's supporters, in the process dismaying his former associates while not convincing his new ones.
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Mar 15, 2025
The bill was passed just hours before a midnight deadline to avoid a lapse in funding, which would have shut down the government.
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Mar 15, 2025
It is very hard to be principled, independent or any of those other bygone adjectives in today's G.O.P.
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Mar 14, 2025
The Senate approved a separate bill that allows D.C. to continue operating under its current budget, which seemed on track to pass in the House. Senator Susan Collins said it had President Trump's support.
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Mar 14, 2025
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticized Senator Chuck Schumer for siding with Republicans on a plan to avert a government shutdown. Her tough language drew talk of a primary challenge.
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Mar 14, 2025
The Senate voted to advance a bill to fund the federal government through September and avoid a shutdown on Saturday.
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Mar 14, 2025
The son of an immigrant, he represented a majority Hispanic district in Arizona for 12 terms but had lately been absent from Capitol Hill while being treated for cancer.
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Mar 14, 2025
Enough Democrats have voted with Republicans to ensure the advance of a Republican-written bill to keep government funding flowing past midnight.
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Mar 14, 2025
A generational divide, seen in newer lawmakers' impatience with bipartisanship and for colleagues who don't understand new media, has emerged as one of the deepest rifts within the party.
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Mar 14, 2025
The measure, which passed with bipartisan support and minor changes, now heads back to the House. It is just the second legislative victory for the new Republican-controlled Congress.
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Mar 14, 2025
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticized a fellow New York lawmaker, Senator Chuck Schumer, for siding with Republicans. Her tough language even drew talk of a primary challenge.
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Mar 14, 2025
Privately, many Senate Democrats conceded that their leader was doing his job by protecting his members from a tough vote and making a politically painful decision. But the backlash from his party was intense.
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