Over dozen Democrats may have hard time holding onto their seats, new fundraising numbers show

More than a dozen House Democrats — including several vulnerable members at risk of losing reelection — are lagging in fundraising behind opponents ahead of November’s midterm […]

Mitch McConnell hospitalized with flu-like symptoms

Republican Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell was hospitalized Monday evening after experiencing flu-like symptoms, a spesperson for the former Senate majority leader announced Tuesday. McConnell spesman David Popp […]

21 Democrats buck Hakeem Jeffries to end four-day government shutdown

Nearly two dozen Democrats bre with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to pass a sprawling funding package on Tuesday afternoon, ending the four-day partial government shutdown. Lawmakers […]

House GOP majority barely hanging on by thread following Democrat’s swearing-in

House Speaker Mike Johnson’s razor-thin Republican majority is set to slim further following Democratic Texas Rep. Christian Menefee’s swearing-in Monday night, days after he won a Saturday […]

Trump slams door shut on conservatives’ effort to attach election integrity bill to shutdown-ending measure

A group of conservative Republicans’ efforts to include an election integrity measure within a Senate-passed deal to end the government shutdown faced a setback Monday afternoon after […]

Senate approves funding package following White House-Schumer deal

The Senate approved a mammoth government spending package Friday evening funding vast portions of the federal government and a separate stopgap measure temporarily funding the Department of […]

Republicans fail to eliminate Chuck Schumer carveout from funding package

A group of conservative Republicans failed to strip an earmark to a left-wing nonprofit supporting illegal migrants in a government funding package on Friday. Lawmakers voted 58-42 […]

20 Republicans vote against stripping $5 billion in refugee welfare out of funding package

The Senate rejected an amendment Friday that would strip $5.1 billion in refugee welfare spending out of a government funding package in a vote of 32-67. The […]

Lindsey Graham holds up Trump-backed spending package over sanctuary cities, Jack Smith provision

The Senate appeared to be on track to fund vast portions of the government Thursday, but Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham put a hold on the […]

Chuck Schumer-linked group trails GOP counterpart by massive gap

Senate Majority PAC (SMP), an outside spending group affiliated with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, entered 2026 with a massive fundraising disadvantage compared to its GOP rival. […]

Democrats charge forward with shutdown threat over ICE funding

The Senate rejected a six-bill appropriations package funding vast portions of the federal government Thursday, citing their opposition to funding federal immigration enforcement following weeks of unrest […]

Cornyn’s campaign uses very tactic he called ‘phony’ the same day

Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn criticized the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in campaign advertising on Monday — the same day his campaign rolled out an AI-fueled […]