The extension would give the Senate plenty of time to begin confirming Trump's Cabinet nominees and the House time to plot out maneuvers on tax legislation.

Keeping the federal government open. Providing more disaster aid. Passing a defense policy bill. And for Senate Democrats, ...

The first vote the lame-duck Senate will take as it returns Tuesday will be on a nominee for a Chicago federal court, kicking ...

Keeping the House would give Republicans the power to ram through policies like tax cuts, energy deregulation and border ...

As he prepares for a return to the White House in January, President-elect Donald Trump has announced that Tom Homan, former acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement director, will serve as ...

Republicans have consistently trashed President Joe Biden's economic agenda and his handling of our immigration crisis. Can they do better?

Hill Republicans have ambitious legislative plans for the first months of total GOP control of government under President-elect Trump, with a sweeping tax package at the top of the to-do list.

Republicans are likely to keep the chamber. But if Democrats flip it, the next two years will be marked by opposition.

They're going from being the one Republican-controlled element of government under ... That came into play when Johnson was trying to avoid a government shutdown. And to do that, he had to negotiate ...

What we learned from the balance of Congress after 2020 and 2022 showed that when it comes to the House, the consequences ...

UPDATE (Oct. 22, 2024, 12:22 p.m. ET): State judges on Monday rejected Republican challenges to certain overseas ballots in separate lawsuits brought in Michigan and North Carolina. As you’re ...

The key to taking effective action if Trump wins is to avoid perpetuating his goals of fear, isolation, exhaustion and ...