Both the House and Senate return to session Tuesday. And there’s plenty to keep lawmakers busy. President-elect Trump is testing the loyalty of Republican senators by pushing an array of controversial nominees to key positions, putting enormous pressure on GOP senators. Those nominees include Trump’s pick for secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, former Rep. Tulsi...
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to head the National Institutes of Health, a move that has been met with praise from some for his qualifications and potential to reform the agency.
In today’s issue: The trouble with lame-duck congressional sessions is that they’re so short and too long. In 10 days, Congress will run out of funds to keep the government operating through the holidays without action or a strategy (preferably both). There was talk last month of extending the deadline again — to March. The...
Lunden Roberts, the mother of Hunter Biden's child, Navy Joan Roberts, said she supports the pardon and believes Biden was "targeted" because of his dad.
More than 70 Nobel Prize winners have written a letter urging the United States Senate to reject President-elect Trump's nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
President Biden will deliver remarks Tuesday afternoon touting his economic agenda and making the case that it has been more effective than the kinds of tax cuts likely to be implemented by the incoming Trump administration. Biden will deliver what a White House official described as a “major address on his economic legacy” at the...
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said this week that she supports the push for younger Democrats to replace veteran lawmakers at the top of committees — but there is at least one glaring exception to the rule. In an interview with the National Catholic Reporter, Pelosi suggested seniority should not be paramount when it comes to...