Mike Johnson

The world’s wealthiest businessman, now a close confidant to Trump, is leveraging his newfound political influence to advance his agenda unchecked. But how long can his honeymoon with the president-elect last?

The former Florida representative, Trump’s nominee for attorney general until he withdrew over the scandal, fought unsuccessfully to prevent the investigation from becoming public

The agonizing 11th-hour negotiations on a spending deal forecast a troubled relationship between Congress and the president-elect, who needs lawmakers’ support to fulfill his promises on mass deportation and tax cuts

The Senate passed the measure to fund federal operations, sending it to President Biden to sign it into law, just after the midnight deadline

Several hardline Republicans joined Democrats to vote against a hastily prepared bill backed by Donald Trump that would have suspended the debt ceiling for two years

The move by the world’s richest man against the spending package, which Trump also rejects, has set social media alight

The justices are considering the case of the parents of a teenager who sued the State of Tennessee for prohibiting her access to hormone therapies until she is 18 years old

The most radical wing of the Republican Party wants to ban Sarah McBride, the first transgender legislator, from using women’s bathrooms in the Capitol

With this victory, Trump’s party controls the executive, legislative and judicial powers. The president-elect met with House Republicans and joked about serving a third term

The breakdown in negotiations between Columbia administrators and student representatives has exacerbated a phenomenon sweeping higher education centers in the United States

The Republican official called for the resignation of university president Nemat Shafik ‘if she cannot immediately bring order to this chaos’ and did not rule out bringing in the National Guard

The Covenant Eyes application, used by hard-right Republicans, turns personal online search history into a confessional

Deputies will vote this Saturday on four bills, including assistance to Kiev, after Democrats joined moderate Republicans on a motion

President Joe Biden sent a swift endorsement of the Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan and, in a rare moment, Donald Trump, who opposes most overseas aid for Ukraine, has not derailed the speaker’s work

The first article charged Mayorkas with ‘willful and systemic refusal to comply’ with immigration law. The second article charged Mayorkas with a ‘breach of trust’ for saying the border was secure

The sudden change of plans cast fresh doubts on the proceedings, the historic first impeachment of a Cabinet secretary in roughly 150 years

The Republican speaker has indicated he will attempt to push for approval of tens of billions in wartime funding for Ukraine, as well as Israel, once the House returns in April

Congress approves funding for government on a dramatic day marked by rebellion in the hard-line wing of the Republican Party

Gallagher announced he would resign his position on April 19. It will leave Republicans with a 217-213 majority in the House, meaning that they cannot afford to lose more than one vote on a party-line vote

The House is scheduled to leave town for a two-week spring recess at the end of Friday’s session, and it’s doubtful any vote on removing Johnson would be imminent

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin addressed more than 50 defense leaders from Europe and around the world who are meeting at the Ramstein Air Base in Germany

The bill, supported by Republicans and Democrats and which now faces the Senate, would force ByteDance, the company that owns the Chinese video social network, to divest its stakes

Democrats, as the minority in the House, began gathering signatures for a ‘discharge petition’ — a seldom-successful procedural tool that can circumvent the speaker’s control over which bills come up for a vote

In his last such appearance of the current term, President Biden took the opportunity to open the new phase of the campaign for the November election

While visiting the U.S.-Mexico border, the Democratic president invited his political rival to join forces on the immigration crisis, but the Republican ex-president spoke of a ‘Biden invasion’

The renewed focus on this year’s spending bills doesn’t include the separate, $95.3 billion aid package that the Senate approved for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan earlier this month