After resisting calls for public hearings for weeks, House Republicans have called the secretary of defense to testify at a budget hearing in late April for the first time since the attacks on Iran began.
An emerging Republican plan to skirt a Democratic filibuster and fund an entire department without congressional appropriations would be the latest example of surrendering power to the White House.
Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis in early January. Using the complex budget process known as reconciliation to fund the entire Homeland Security Department, as Republicans are suggesting, would be a significant departure from traditional congressional practice.
After lawmakers left Washington for a two-week spring break with the Department of Homeland Security shut down, the Hollywood tabloid began publishing photographs of them living it up around the country.
The former South Carolina governor and congressman filed papers to run for his old seat, six years after running for president and nearly two decades after a high-profile affair.
The urgent instructions at the Trump administration’s behest to gather and relay the files on Representative Eric Swalwell have alarmed some career law enforcement officials.
Kaela Berg, a Minnesota state representative who works as a flight attendant, is part of a new crop of working-class candidates with atypical backgrounds. Democrats hope they can help their party win back blue-collar voters.
Republicans revolted over a Senate measure to fund the Department of Homeland Security and passed a rival bill, dimming the chances of a quick end to the crisis crippling airports.
The Republican pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson joins E.J. Dionne Jr. and Robert Siegel to discuss Trump’s falling approval rating and what it portends for November.
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