A returning president who expects to govern without constraints leaves his opponents hoping to benefit from the blowback.

Facing a government shutdown deadline, the Senate rushed through final passage early Saturday of a bipartisan plan that would ...

The feud between Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell could soon spark anew in the next Congress with the Kentucky Republican ...

The Senate passed legislation early Saturday to boost Social Security payments for millions of people, pushing a longtime priority for former public employees through Congress in one of its last acts ...

After a chaotic week in which House Speaker Mike Johnson found himself at odds, at different times, with President-elect ...

Republicans in the House of Representatives have come to a second short-term government spending agreement, after President-elect Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk scuttled the initial ...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., teed up votes on two California district judges, and they were likely to be the ...

President Joe Biden has secured the 235th judicial confirmation of his presidency. That's an accomplishment that exceeds his ...

Kentucky lawmakers are reacting to multi-billionaire Elon Musk's outsized influence on this week's roller-coaster spending ...

The crisis erupted after Johnson’s second congressional spending bill, drafted at the insistence of Donald Trump to include a suspension of the debt limit and remove a number of concessions to ...

Plan to avert a government shutdown backed by Trump failed with 38 Republicans opposing the bill. Does it mean his ...