Dozens of D.C. parents and students crowded a Senate office building Thursday to protest major potential cuts to the city's school system after House Republicans passed a federal spending bill requiring the District to slash its budget by $1 billion.
The White House on Wednesday withdrew Dave Weldon's nomination to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a rare setback for President Trump's picks even as the Senate advanced nominees to lead other health agencies.
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to step in and allow the president's attempt to limit birthright citizenship to take effect, at least in some cases, while the court battles over his executive order rage on.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Thursday put the onus on Republicans to avert the looming government shutdown. “Everybody knows that Donald Trump is president, that Republicans have the Senate and Republicans have the House,” Ocasio-Cortez told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead.” “They have the keys to the entire United States government,” she added. “And...
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey issued cease-and-desist orders against Planned Parenthood facilities in the state to bar them from offering medication abortions even though they do not provide them. “Planned Parenthood has a documented history of subverting state law, including failure to file complication reports,” Bailey said in a press release issued Wednesday. ...
Progressive Democrats wasted no time eulogizing the legacy of Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), a progressive lion of the lower chamber who died on Thursday at the age of 77 after a battle with lung cancer. Huddled at the Democrats’ annual retreat in Northern Virginia, the melancholy lawmakers remembered Grijalva not only as a fierce champion...