House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said it's not believable that the military action in Venezuela has anything to do with stopping the flow of drugs into the United States after President Trump pardoned a former Honduran president of his drug crimes.

Rep. Ro Khanna is set to take over as the top Democrat on the House select committee on China.

The House will vote this week on a bipartisan three-bill spending package negotiated by top appropriators in both chambers.

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story More strikes ahead? Trump threatens multiple countries after Venezuela President Trump levied a barrage of new threats against various countries following the U.S. operation capturing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro over the weekend. © Associated Press Trump...

Conservative Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Monday pointed the finger directly at his colleague, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-Ky.), as the primary instigator behind President Trump’s surprise mission to send U.S. special operators into Caracas to seize Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Paul lamented what he sees as a reversal from Trump’s previous staunch opposition to nation-building...

The House Ethics Committee announced Monday that it’s extending a review of allegations against Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) and Brandon Phillips, Collins’s chief of staff who transitioned to the congressman’s Senate campaign, releasing a report from the Office of Congressional Conduct (OCC) that raised allegations over the hiring of a past intern in the congressman’s office....

Two high-profile Republican senators on Monday warned Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth against reducing Sen. Mark Kelly’s (D-Ariz.) military rank or pension as punishment for filming a video with several other Democratic lawmakers urging service members not to follow unlawful orders. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who has jurisdiction over the Pentagon’s budget as chair of...

Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the chair and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, respectively, slammed the Trump administration for not including them in a Monday briefing on the operation in Venezuela to capture Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. The two senators, citing the administration’s argument that the mission...

{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Trump captures Maduro, eyes Venezuela's oil industry After the U.S. captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, President Trump said he wanted the U.S. to take over the country's oil production. © Alex Brandon, Associated Press “As everyone knows, the oil business in Venezuela has been...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) defended the Trump administration Monday for not consulting Congress ahead of its operation to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. The administration notified the “Gang of Eight” — which includes Thune, Johnson, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)...