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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
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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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
About that rule of law …
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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 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
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
Get live Senate results and maps from the battleground states in the 2024 election.
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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
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 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 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
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 21, 2025
The senators asked the inspectors general to look at future job cuts as well.
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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 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
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
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
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 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
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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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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Mar 14, 2025
An afternoon vote was expected to clear the way for a Republican-written bill to keep government funding flowing past midnight after the top Senate Democrat said he would not block it.
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Mar 14, 2025
A plain-spoken lawmaker from Wyoming, he balanced his conservative views with moderate stands on abortion rights, gay marriage and immigration reform.
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Mar 14, 2025
The stopgap measure the G.O.P. is pushing to avert a government shutdown omits billions of dollars in member-requested projects, another way in which Congress has ceded its power on federal spending.
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Mar 14, 2025
The stopgap measure the G.O.P. is pushing to avert a government shutdown omits billions of dollars in member-requested projects, another way in which Congress has ceded its power on federal spending.
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Mar 14, 2025
At least a dozen other mountains and ridges in the U.S. already carry the name McKinley.
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Mar 14, 2025
On spending, oversight and other issues, Republican lawmakers have willingly ceded power traditionally reserved for Congress to the Trump White House.
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Mar 13, 2025
Many Democrats had agitated for the party to hang together and block the measure in defiance of President Trump, but the leader said doing so would prompt a shutdown that would only empower Mr. Trump.
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Mar 13, 2025
A government shutdown would lead to real pain for the American people.
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Mar 13, 2025
Many Democrats are agitating for their party's senators to block the measure in defiance of President Trump, but the leader said doing so would prompt a shutdown that would only empower Mr. Trump.
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Mar 13, 2025
With signs made from crayons and colored markers, children rallied on Capitol Hill with their parents on Thursday, protesting layoffs and spending limits.
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Mar 13, 2025
President Trump said Chuck Schumer was not "Jewish anymore" in comments that have been widely criticized as offensive.
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Mar 13, 2025
The former transportation secretary, who moved to Michigan from Indiana in 2022, had been seen as the most prominent potential candidate in next year's marquee contest.
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Mar 12, 2025
The top Senate Democrat said his members were not ready to provide the votes to allow the Republican-written stopgap spending measure to pass ahead of a Friday night deadline. There is still time for a reversal.
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Mar 12, 2025
The top Senate Democrat said his members were not ready to provide the votes to allow the Republican-written stopgap spending measure to pass ahead of a March 14 midnight deadline.
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Mar 12, 2025
Jeanne Shaheen, 78, is the latest Senate Democrat to say she won't run for re-election. It's the right call, and there's still time for others to follow.
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Mar 12, 2025
Ms. Shaheen's retirement will set off a high-stakes fight for an open seat in a state where she has been a leading political figure for decades.
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Mar 11, 2025
Approval of the bill sent it to the Senate, where Republicans need the cooperation of several Democrats to move it past a filibuster and to passage before a midnight deadline on Friday.
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Mar 10, 2025
While in Congress, Ms. Chavez-DeRemer was a co-sponsor of the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, known as the PRO Act, a sweeping labor bill that sought to strengthen collective bargaining rights.
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Mar 10, 2025
In his second term, President Trump is cultivating warm relationships with G.O.P. lawmakers — and using the implicit threat of ruining them if they stray — to keep them in line behind his agenda.
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Mar 08, 2025
His unusual governing arrangement with President Trump is opening Republicans up to being yoked politically to Mr. Musk, who polls show is broadly unpopular.
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Mar 07, 2025
Trabajadores federales, rectores de universidades, directores ejecutivos e incluso republicanos veteranos no se pronuncian en contra del presidente de EE. UU. por temor.
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Mar 06, 2025
People say they are intimidated by online attacks from the president, concerned about harm to their businesses or worried about the safety of their families.
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Mar 06, 2025
Republicans are pitching the strategy as a way of avoiding a politically damaging shutdown fight while giving President Trump more power to go around Congress and set funding levels himself.
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Mar 05, 2025
Democrats argue that Elon Musk's criticism of the program and push to squeeze savings from it is a prelude to benefit cuts. Republicans and President Trump say they plan no such thing.
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Mar 05, 2025
At a mostly friendly closed-door meeting, the billionaire carrying out President Trump's bid to shrink the federal bureaucracy fielded queries about how senators could be more involved in the effort.
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Mar 05, 2025
En un largo discurso, el presidente Donald Trump destacó las rápidas acciones iniciales de su gobierno y retomó los temas de su campaña, prometiendo medidas enérgicas contra la inmigración ilegal y la ideología "woke".
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Mar 05, 2025
Party leaders opted for a soberly delivered, centrist counter to the president's speech, but the dominant image of Democratic pushback was a liberal congressman waving his cane in protest.
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Mar 05, 2025
President Trump's comments on tariffs and Social Security sent something of a chill through the House chamber.
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Mar 05, 2025
President Trump boasted about his first weeks in office and doubled down on his agenda. Al Green, a Democratic lawmaker from Texas, repeatedly yelled "you don't have a mandate" and was escorted out.
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Mar 05, 2025
In a lengthy speech, President Trump promoted his administration's rapid early moves and reprised the themes of his campaign, vowing to crack down on illegal immigration and "wokeness."
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Mar 04, 2025
In a speech to Congress in his first weeks in office, the president laid out his vision to remake U.S. policy on the military, trade, immigration and foreign aid.
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Mar 04, 2025
What the left chooses to fight on now will shape future elections.
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Mar 04, 2025
Trump is on shaky ground when it comes to the way he has empowered perhaps the most important figure in the new administration.
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Mar 04, 2025
Presidents typically use these speeches to promote their accomplishments and lay out their plans. President Trump is expected to touch on Ukraine and government cuts.
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Mar 04, 2025
What the left chooses to fight on now will shape future elections.
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Mar 03, 2025
Republicans argued the bill was essential to protecting women and girls, but also made clear they were bringing it up to portray Democrats as outside the mainstream. It stalled in the Senate.
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Mar 03, 2025
The Senate confirmed Ms. McMahon to lead the Education Department by a party-line vote of 51 to 45.
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Mar 02, 2025
Facing a wave of criticism from his former Senate colleagues, Secretary of State Marco Rubio backed the complaints lobbed by President Trump and Vice President JD Vance against Ukraine's leader.
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Mar 01, 2025
Democrats say the calls to remove judges who block Trump administration initiatives amount to intimidation. Some senior Republicans were also skeptical of the effort.
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Mar 01, 2025
Democrats are rerunning the playbook that won them control of Congress in 2018, focusing on the cost of the G.O.P.'s tax cut plan for ordinary Americans, particularly when it comes to health care.
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Feb 28, 2025
The five men asked the House and the Senate to hold hearings "to assess the national security implications of Mr. Trump's dismissals."
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Feb 26, 2025
Adoption of the Republican budget was the easy part. Now comes the difficult task of writing a bill consistent with what President Trump has demanded.
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Feb 24, 2025
Congress has been ceding power to the president for decades. In the DOGE era, Congress needs to reclaim and use the tool of authorization.
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Feb 23, 2025
The third-term senator from Connecticut is eschewing caution and throwing out the traditional political playbook as he seeks a broader audience for his critiques of the president and his agenda.
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Feb 22, 2025
Voters, activists and even some governors, like Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, are growing exasperated with congressional Democrats' restrained approach.
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Feb 21, 2025
The timeline for identifying the agents and employees who would move from the Washington area to field offices and a sprawling campus in Huntsville, Ala., was not immediately clear.
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Feb 21, 2025
Approval of the Republican budget plan left major questions about tax cuts and spending reduction for another day.
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Feb 21, 2025
Plus, a James Bond takeover.
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Feb 21, 2025
Before adopting Republicans' budget resolution, senators engaged in an all-night parliamentary marathon that Democrats used to try to force the G.O.P. into politically damaging votes.
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Feb 20, 2025
Before adopting Republicans' budget resolution, senators were engaging in an all-night parliamentary marathon that Democrats used to try to force the G.O.P. into politically damaging votes.
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Feb 20, 2025
Shortly after Senator Mitch McConnell said he would not run for an eighth term, Daniel Cameron, a former Kentucky attorney general, said he would run for the seat in 2026. Two lawmakers and a businessman also hinted at running.
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Feb 20, 2025
The former Senate Republican leader had been widely expected to retire at the end of his term. He made it official on his 83rd birthday, after a recent run of opposing President Trump's nominees.
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Feb 20, 2025
La mayoría de los republicanos del Congreso han moderado sus críticas o han cedido ante el presidente mientras este ignora lo que una vez fueron los principios básicos de política exterior de su partido.
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Feb 20, 2025
The vote puts Kash Patel in charge of the country's premier law enforcement agency.
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Feb 20, 2025
A Democrat, he became a powerful voice on national intelligence in the Senate before leaving to become president of the University of Oklahoma.
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Feb 20, 2025
The longest-serving Senate party leader had been widely expected to retire at the end of his current term. He made it official on his 83rd birthday, after a recent run of opposing President Trump's nominees.
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Feb 20, 2025
The Senate will hold a final vote on President Trump's pick for F.B.I. director, which could put Kash Patel in charge of the powerful law enforcement agency.
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Feb 19, 2025
Mr. Trump's call for "one big beautiful bill" came just hours after he gave conflicting directions to congressional Republicans on cuts to social safety net programs.
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Feb 19, 2025
Congressional Republicans have mostly tempered their criticism or deferred to the president as he topples what were once their party's core foreign policy principles.
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