Kevin McCarthy

At one point, Archer was asked point blank: “Are you aware of any wrongdoing by Vice President Biden?” He responded, “No, I’m not aware of any.”

The party Trump leads has essentially given up on criticizing his actions, countering his impulses or putting a check on his accumulating power

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, his closest rival, did not defend Trump, but he said that he would “end weaponization of government” if elected president

Congress will have until Oct. 1, the start of the new fiscal year, to pass the spending bills needed to fund government agencies next year or a stopgap measure that keeps agencies running temporarily

Senate passage, 86-11, sets up a clash with the House, which passed its own version of the annual defense bill along party lines earlier this month

If the House were to hold Zuckerberg in contempt, the Justice Department would decide whether to prosecute him

Biden’s attorneys are still seeking to keep information deemed private out of the public court record

White House spokesman Ian Sams said in response that the House GOP’s eagerness to go after the president “regardless of the truth is seemingly bottomless”

Headlining a Republican county meeting, Trump attacked investigators while trying to make light of what could be his third criminal indictment since March

Democrats voted against the package, which had sailed out of the House Armed Services Committee on an almost unanimous vote weeks ago

Taylor Taranto, 37, who prosecutors say participated in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol, kept two firearms and hundreds of rounds of ammunition inside a van

Republicans have talked about the possibility of impeachment cases against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Attorney General Merrick Garland, as well as President Joe Biden

GOP lawmakers are pushing abortion policy changes, trying to build on the work of activists whose strategy successfully elevated their fight to the nation’s highest court

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s bid to appease hardliners in his caucus and get the House moving again has some Democratic worried about the road ahead

The passage of the debt ceiling bill was hailed by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and other members of GOP leadership, but dozens of GOP lawmakers voted against the measure, saying it didn’t do enough to restrict spending

The president has managed to clear the financial horizon without making any major concessions, while his predecessor and Republican hardliners have lost their main tool to pressure the government

His approach, favoring pragmatism over Trumpian pugilism, will be tested as never before in the coming campaign, with his approval rating even among Democrats low

Negotiators from both sides made clear, publicly and privately, that it was the biggest area of disagreement and almost led to the talks breaking down several times

The White House announced the signing, done in private, in an emailed statement in which the President thanked congressional leaders for their partnership

The President of the United States has addressed the nation from the Oval Office a day after the deal which suspends the debt limit was passed in Congress

President Biden is expected to sign it into law on Friday, just three days before the government runs out of money

A relentless force, he pushed a reluctant White House to the negotiating table and delivered the votes from his balky House GOP majority to seal the deal

The most radical Republican and Democratic Congress members voted against the agreement, but did not succeed in stopping it

Hard-right conservatives are criticizing the deal, while liberals decry new work requirements for older Americans in the food aid program

The White House and congressional leaders are working to ensure passage in time to lift the nation’s borrowing limit and prevent a U.S. default

After weeks of negotiations, he and McCarthy struck an agreement to avert a potentially devastating government default. The stakes are high for both men — and now each will have to persuade lawmakers in their parties to vote for it

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden will now have to sell it to their respective parties. They have to make sure that the deal is popular enough to pass both the House and Senate without a revolt on either side