Congress
Your guide to what’s happening on Capitol Hill.
Trump is threatening to fire federal workers if the government shuts down.
Trump’s prosecution of Rep. LaMonica McIver may be the most anti-democratic thing he’s done since January 6.
Chris Van Hollen on a government shutdown, Charlie Kirk, and Zohran Mamdani.
Texas plans to add five Republican seats. It could swing control of the House.
Democrats and Republicans are both escalating.
A rush to redraw voter maps might determine future control of Congress.
A Vox reporter explains what’s going on with the GOP’s early redistricting plans.
The House is heading for the door early to avoid an Epstein vote.
Congress signs off on Trump’s request to claw back funding.
The public tends to dislike big budget bills, and the way they’re passed.
The $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts will be felt by all Americans.
How Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” attacks abortion and reproductive care, in 2 charts.
Here are the numbers behind the bill behind Trump’s breakup with Elon Musk.
House Republicans just voted to cut taxes and Medicare.
Presidential emergency declarations mean emergency powers — and a way around Congress.
The New Jersey senator is doing something many Democrats wish their party would do more of.
There are early signs that a Democratic revolt is on the horizon. But is it too early to say how it will play out?
The debate over a government shutdown isn’t so simple.
How Donald Trump and Elon Musk could use a debt ceiling breach to usurp Congress’s power.
How Trump could attempt to cut Medicaid, school funding, and more — without Congress.
The Laken Riley Act passed with bipartisan support and will upend immigration enforcement.
The report accuses Gaetz of paying women for sex — including a 17-year-old.
That bodes poorly for his agenda next year.
Trump stoked another congressional crisis. But there’s an intriguing twist to this one.
Trump told NBC that making the pardons would be one of his day-one priorities.
Washington Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez on where she thinks her party went wrong in 2024.
The exhausting dance that precedes every single government funding battle has begun.
A new AI tool blames Congress’s “conflict entrepreneurs” for polarizing the country.
After his latest address to Congress, the Israeli prime minister has never looked more isolated.
The party doesn’t need to accept defeat. It just needs to reject Joe Biden.
The loss is a blow to progressives that sends a message about Israel.
Americans are confronting a whole new reality of patchwork abortion access after the Dobbs decision.
Republicans’ vote to hold him in contempt, briefly explained.
What is the Kids’ Online Safety Act, and why should you care about it?
The bill provides billions in foreign aid and could force ByteDance to sell TikTok.
Biden has signed a bill to ban TikTok. But it’s not over yet.
The GOP majority is quite small, but a Democratic takeover pre-election still seems extremely unlikely.
They point to much deeper holes in US immigration policy.
Roughly 80 percent of House Republicans just lined up behind a plan to cut Social Security and ban all abortions.
Why we find ourselves on the precipice again and again … and again.