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Attorney General Pam Bondi came under bipartisan pressure Monday from lawmakers who argued that proposed funding cuts to the Justice Department, including the FBI, are unwise as the conflict between the U.S. and Iran intensifies.
During Bondi’s first congressional testimony since her confirmation hearings, House members said t...
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, one of President Donald Trump’s most vocal critics in the Senate GOP, said in a podcast on Monday that there are certain situations in which she’d consider becoming an independent and caucusing with Democrats.
“There may be that possibility,” she told Galen Druke in an interview excerpt of his GD Po...
Several House Democrats are posting replicas of a commemorative plaque for police officers who defended the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection — needling Speaker Mike Johnson for the prolonged delay in installing the official plaque that was commissioned by Congress more than three years ago.
The plaque honoring U.S...
CMS chief Dr. Mehmet Oz just indicated to a group of GOP chiefs of staff that they should stick with language closer to the House megabill’s Medicaid language, especially on the politically explosive provider tax, according to two people granted anonymity to speak about a private meeting.
It's a warning that the Senate should...
Emil Bove will appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday for his nomination to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.
Trump nominated Bove, his principal associate deputy attorney general and former criminal defense attorney, to the federal bench in May, after Bove’s monthslong tenure at the Department of Justice ...
Senate Finance Committee staff is expected to meet Monday with Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, with Republicans and Democrats presenting competing cases for whether health provisions of the pending GOP megabill comply with the chamber’s rules for party-line budget legislation.
That means the critical debate over t...
Senate Republicans are unlikely to release full revised text of their sweeping domestic-policy bill Monday as they had hoped, according to three people granted anonymity to discuss internal dynamics, reflecting a behind-the-scenes scramble to finalize the legislation for passage this coming week.
The timeline slip comes after ...
House Republicans are aiming to slash funding for the nonpartisan watchdog for waste, fraud and abuse within the federal government by nearly half in the next fiscal year, according to spending bill text released Sunday night.
The House Appropriations subcommittee funding Congress and its support agencies, led by chairman Davi...
President Donald Trump already had Republicans scrambling to get their “big, beautiful bill” to his desk by next week. Now he’s got Congress grappling with something even bigger: the aftermath of his airstrikes on Iran.
The issue could come to a head with a vote as soon as this week. Sen. Tim Kaine’s (D-Va.) resolution requiri...
Ed Artau was already meeting with Senate staff about securing a nomination to the federal bench when he sided with Trump in a case, according to a new Senate disclosure obtained by POLITICO.
Police arrested an Ohio man in their investigation into a Thursday road rage incident in which Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) said he was “run off the road” by a person with a Palestinian flag.
Rocky River, Ohio, police said on Friday that Westlake, Ohio, resident Feras S. Hamdan, 36, voluntarily turned himself in after the Rocky Ri...
GOP Sen. Rand Paul is throwing his support behind a home-state judicial pick that he stalled three years ago as part of a feud with his fellow Kentuckian Mitch McConnell.
Trump said this week he will nominate Chad Meredith to serve as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky; Paul’s office said t...
Reports insisted that the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling was a blow to ‘transgender rights,’ without ever adequately explaining — or justifying — the term.
