The House passed the final four of the 12 annual spending bills on Thursday, leaving only the Senate left to act to prevent another government shutdown after the record-breaking funding lapse that kicked off the fiscal year.
The House narrowly defeated a war powers resolution Thursday that aimed to block further military action by President Trump in Venezuela without approval from Congress.
Democratic House lawmakers are calling for a criminal investigation and congressional action into the Department of Government Efficiency after court filings showed that DOGE may have misused Social Security data.
Insisting that he was in Minnesota to calm tensions, Vice President JD Vance on Thursday blamed "far-left people" and state and local law enforcement officials for the chaos that has unfolded during the White House's aggressive deportation campaign.
A man accused of offering a $10,000 bounty over Snapchat for the life of a top Border Patrol leader was found not guilty on Thursday in the first criminal trial stemming from the Chicago-area immigration crackdown that started last year.