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With less than a week to go before a March 14 shutdown deadline, it is not clear if Republicans have the votes to pass the continuing resolution unveiled Saturday.
Outside groups from across the ideological spectrum have spent decades documenting questionable government spending.
The losses at two Native American schools were part of the Trump administrations purge of federal workers. A partial reversal has done little to allay fears.
The president had vowed to eliminate the century-old practice of springing forward and falling back but is now acknowledging the complicated politics.
Vice President JD Vance is the obvious and prohibitive frontrunner, but heres who else could be in the mix.
A rundown of Donald Trumps biggest campaign promises and where they stand.
Paul Clement, a former solicitor general, was asked by U.S. Judge Dale Ho to weigh in on the Justice Dept.s controversial request to dismiss the Adams case.
Anybody would step up the attack, Trump said of Russias first major missile assault on Ukraine since the U.S. paused intelligence sharing with the embattled country.
Trumps remarks represent a shift for the president, who in 2018 withdrew the United States from a nuclear deal with Iran.
The latest news on President Donald Trumps return to the White House and the new Congress.
The Stand Up for Science rallies are a response to the Trump administrations actions, which have been seen as a threat to scientific progress.
The International Republican Institutes furloughed staffers feel betrayed by former board member Marco Rubio.
Members of the second largest federal union lobbied Congress this week, promoting civil service protections and fighting mass firings.
Outside watchdogs and analysts say Trump and Musk are using overly broad claims of fraud to build political support for their plans.
The show of force by Trump administration officials and federal law enforcement resulted in a frantic and traumatizing scene, several USADF officials said, and sparked a lawsuit from the aid organizations leader claiming DOGE employees are unauthorized to represent the agency.
The meeting represented the outpouring of weeks of building tensions between the head of DOGE and President Donald Trumps top political officials.
Conservative allies of President Donald Trump called Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett evil, a closet Democrat and a DEI hire.
Political gravity does apply to Trump after all, it seems.
Perkins Coie represented Hillary Clintons campaign and the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 presidential race.
Firings and mass disruptions at the CIA could harm intelligence collection on foreign threats and future recruiting, current and former officials say.
Republican Gov. Mark Gordon had vetoed the bill, saying it would be traumatizing for victims of rape and incest, but GOP state legislators voted to override him.
Most of the Democrats who voted with House Republicans to rebuke Rep. Al Green for disrupting Trumps address to Congress won reelection by slim margins last year.
President Donald Trump signs an order postponing tariffs for one month on certain Mexican and Canadian goods that fall under an existing free-trade agreement.
Global health groups accused the Trump administration of flouting a judges order to restart nearly $2 billion in payments for food, medicine and more.
The U.S. DOGE Services attempt to access a federal database with sensitive information has provoked yet another internal disagreement.
The National Republican Congressional Committee attacked Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-New York), chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, on its social media account.
His move to dismantle the Education Department is merely the latest example of initiatives that Americans seem to strongly oppose.
Follow President-elect Trumps progress filling over 800 positions, among about 1,300 that require Senate confirmation, in this tracker from The Washington Post and the Partnership for Public Service.
A majority of Americans disapprove of Trump's tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China.
The latest news on President Donald Trumps return to the White House and the new Congress.
A wave of federal government firings and resignations since President Donald Trump took office means colorful departure letters have burst into public view.
The president knows his plans, a White House official said, while Donald Trump presses ahead with tariffs that economists warn will push prices higher.
The MassResistance effort has little chance of succeeding, but legal experts say it shows how conservatives are emboldened by the Trump administration.
Marty Makary, Trumps pick for FDA commissioner, faces his first test as he testifies before the Senate health committee.
The latest defection, of a prominent county judge to the Republican Party, signals how much the regions politics and Hispanic voters there are changing.
The Social Security Administrations acting commissioner said members of Elon Musks cost-cutting team are outsiders who are unfamiliar with the nuances of the agencys programs.
In his speech to Congress, President Trump played up unproven claims of malfeasance in green-energy funding.
The Department of Veterans Affairs announced plans to cut about 80,000 jobs on Wednesday, as President Donald Trump pushes to shrink the federal workforce.
The U.S. African Development Foundation denied several DOGE employees access to its offices Wednesday.
Many liberal members of Congress and activists believe they must loudly channel the growing outrage among Democrats over Trumps drastic actions.
Hayden Haynes allegedly backed into a parked car, and was cited for driving under the influence.
More than a dozen states have laws that criminalize abortion when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Heres a look at abortion laws by state.
The Justice Department dropped a Biden-era lawsuit that sought to require hospitals receiving government funds to offer abortions to women in medical emergencies.
Trump adviser Elon Musk stepped up his congressional outreach Wednesday, taking questions from Republican lawmakers, some of whom are facing anger over DOGE.
The justices split 5-4 on whether to halt a judges order to restart nearly $2 billion in State Department and USAID payments for work that has been done.
They increasingly support a negotiated end to the war and even territorial concessions to Russia but not necessarily like this.
Two freshmen lawmakers capture a day in their lives and what President Donald Trumps speech was like from their perspectives.
Payton McNabb, who has lobbied for a ban on transgender athletes in womens sports, and the family of Laken Riley, killed last year by an undocumented immigrant, were among those invited.
The latest news on President Donald Trumps return to the White House and the new Congress.
The presidents true test will come as he has to move past executive orders.