The Republican-controlled U.S. Congress looked set to move ahead this week to keep the government funded and avert a partial ...

There’s a record number of ex-SEALs on Capitol Hill. Is politics at odds with the special forces’ ethos of working in the ...

Funding for the federal government runs out at the end of Friday, and the race is on for Congress to avoid a shutdown. In a ...

Progressive and moderate Democrats criticized a protest by Representative Al Green as a distraction, and the party leadership ...

Governors and attorneys general have more powers to fight Trump than congressional Democrats. Many rank-and-file Democrats ...

To win elections, Democrats have to appeal to average American voters and develop fresh leaders to become the faces, voices ...

Washington, D.C., snuck its horrible reparations bill past Republicans in Congress by calling it something else. That won't ...

MAGA erupted against Justice Barrett after an unfavorable ruling over Trump's foreign aid spending clawback, yet experts say ...

Donald Trump’s second presidency will take a novel path this week as he turns to Congress to enshrine part of his effort to ...

Federal judges have lifetime tenure, and foreign leaders answer to their own citizenry. For now, they’re acting as the emergency brakes on Trump as he pushes to remake the world.

For decades, conservatives in Congress have talked about the need to cut government deeply, but they have always pulled back ...

The dynamic of cutting government while also cutting out those who answer to voters has alarmed even some fiscal ...