While congressional Republicans have coalesced around a plan to fund immigration enforcement, there are plenty more intraparty battles that will make for rocky legislating for the summer. At the crux of many of the disputes is anxiety about the looming midterm elections that threaten to erase the GOP’s majority. That’s driving some Republicans to argue...

Shell-shocked Democrats are scrambling to pick up the pieces after the Virginia Supreme Court quashed a new map designed to help them seize control of the House in November’s midterms. The decision immediately eliminates four House seats that were expected to flip to the Democrats’ side in the Old Dominion. And it constitutes an enormous...

The hard-fought clash over 2026 appropriations may have just ended, but House GOP leaders aren't getting any respite as they plunge into the battle over spending for fiscal 2027 — the last major legislative fight expected before November’s elections.  After a bruising 2026 appropriations cycle that pushed Congress to two lengthy government shutdowns, Speaker Mike...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) notched a series of wins last week by muscling several key bills through the House, but the road ahead is littered with challenges as he must unify a fractured GOP when those priorities come back up in the weeks ahead. Johnson defied the skeptics by rallying hard-line conservatives and GOP moderates...

President Trump’s escalated attacks on House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) have created opportunities for Democrats racing to seize control of the lower chamber in this year’s midterm elections. But they also carry plenty of political risks. Trump is widely unpopular on the national stage, and Democrats want to showcase their opposition to the president in an...

The partisan battle over authorizing the Iran War has shifted to one of semantics, as the sides haggle over a contentious deadline created by a Vietnam-era law. On Friday, the conflict hit the 60-day mark — a critical marker under the 1973 War Powers Act — and Democrats are using the milestone to fuel their...

The House Republicans’ go-it-alone approach is snarling efforts to move a series of must-pass bills through the lower chamber this week. On three major pieces of legislation — to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), extend the government’s spying powers and set farm policy for the next half decade — GOP leaders have opted...

A contentious pro-pesticide provision in the farm bill could create hurdles to the legislation moving through the House, as lawmakers aligned with the "Make America Healthy Again" (MAHA) movement rage against the measure. The language in question, which seeks to block some lawsuits against pesticide companies, has emerged as a major flash point among some Republicans...

The weekend shooting at a press gala attended by President Trump is creating new headaches for House GOP leaders as they scramble to reopen the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ahead of a looming freeze on employee pay. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and his leadership team were already laboring to adopt a budget blueprint this...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is standing by his promise to use “maximum warfare” in the battle over redistricting, even following Saturday’s shooting at a press gala where President Trump was in attendance. In the wake of the shooting, a number of conservatives have hammered Jeffries’s choice of language, saying the Democratic leader was...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is warning that House Democrats might not back an extension of the government’s warrantless spy powers as long as FBI Director Kash Patel remains atop the agency. Jeffries has long portrayed Patel as a partisan conspiracy theorist who’s unfit to be the nation’s top cop. On Thursday, he escalated...

The surge of House resignations this month has triggered calls from both parties for a broader overhaul of the ethics process and how the chamber polices its own. While many lawmakers have welcomed the hasty departures of former Reps. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) and Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.), their cases have also stirred up...