Park Service quietly opens contracting for a $500 million-plus sea wall key to Trump’s East Potomac golf project, with no funding after Congress ignored the request.
Ohio Republican Sen. Husted fires campaign political director he hired a month ago after Washington Post found his Facebook profile photo showed Nazi SS soldiers.
Interior Department blocks more than 130 national park projects worth $25 million, including Joshua Tree fire preparedness, saying partner groups work against administration priorities, Washington Post reports.
Trump proposes excluding roughly 16 million undocumented and temporary immigrants from the 2030 census count that allots House seats, reviving his first-term citizenship question.
Sen. Bernie Sanders calls senators to a Sept. 16 AI briefing with pioneer Geoffrey Hinton after an Anthropic researcher publicly quit over safety fears.
House Republicans scrap the chamber’s last 2 weeks of votes before the midterms, returning Sept. 14 for one week, a day after Trump signed a stopgap spending bill.
Billionaire Leon Black sues House Oversight to block Epstein subpoenas and skips his deposition, leaving Chairman Comer an empty chair and Democrats calling for contempt.
House Veterans’ Affairs Committee votes 19-0 to subpoena Oracle’s Larry Ellison after the VA nearly tripled Oracle’s $10 billion health records contract it once vowed to finish without overruns.
Childcare waitlists grow from 8 states to 23 plus DC, stranding hundreds of thousands of eligible children, after Congress let $28 billion in pandemic aid lapse, AP finds.
Trump says US hit Iran “very hard” and can strike again “anytime,” as Pentagon confirms troops were told to stop saying “Operation Epic Fury,” declared over May 5.
House votes 370-48 to fund the government through Dec. 11, blocking political review of grants and fund transfers to Border Patrol, averting a preelection shutdown.
Defense Secretary Hegseth removes at least 6 Army officers from a major general promotion list one day after the Army secretary quit, The Hill reports.
Carrier USS Abraham Lincoln docks in Thailand after 286 days at sea, as Democrats seek a probe of food shortages, broken plumbing and attempted suicides.
House votes 412-2 to censure North Carolina Republican Chuck Edwards, who denies sexual harassment, for giving 2 young staffers handguns, jewelry, poems and vacation invitations.
Postal Service whistleblower tells House Democrats the agency is secretly building a voter screening system, tested for 4 days, despite last week’s court block.
Speaker Johnson endorses Ohio Rep. Max Miller’s reelection as a “great member” while the Ethics Committee investigates allegations he abused his ex-wife and 2-year-old daughter.
Smithsonian puts the National Museum of the American Latino in a building it already owns, bypassing congressional approval after Trump’s budget stripped the museum’s funding.
Supreme Court lets White House ballroom construction continue 5-4, Chief Justice Roberts dissenting, as the 65% complete project could finish before courts decide its legality.
Rep. Chuck Edwards tells colleagues “poetry is not sexual misconduct” in a 22-page letter fighting censure over gifts of jewelry, guns and vacations to 2 young staffers.
Documents show Health Secretary Kennedy wrote Samoa’s leader in 2019 asking to study its MMR vaccines, contradicting his Senate testimony that the trip had “nothing to do with vaccines.”
Judge cuts off DOJ’s claim that the Kennedy Center is “dilapidated” as a “non sequitur” while weighing whether Trump’s board can put his name on the facade and grounds.
ICE signs a no-bid $16.7 million contract for 6,000 pairs of electric shock gloves to use on detainees and protesters, hours after 16 senators asked it to cancel.
Maryland judge blocks the November redistricting ballot question, ruling Democrats missed their own July 1 certification deadline in the August special session.
Trump submits an unusual, fully classified Saudi civil nuclear agreement to Congress, starting a 90-day clock that approves it without a rejection vote.
Legal watchdog files bar complaints against US Attorney Pirro and 2 deputies for seeking to indict 6 Democratic lawmakers a grand jury refused to charge.
FBI seizes former Rep. Swalwell’s devices in a sexual misconduct investigation as the White House declassifies files on his contact with a suspected Chinese spy.
Rep. Pingree says the man ICE killed in Maine had no final removal order and wasn’t the intended target, contradicting the agency’s account.
Kentucky Governor Beshear says McConnell has ignored his request for proof of capacity as the 84-year-old senator recovers at home after leaving rehab.
CENTCOM commander visits the USS Abraham Lincoln after a sailor went overboard and families reported mental health struggles aboard.
Fauci refuses Senator Ron Johnson’s request to testify voluntarily, days after Republicans voted him in contempt for invoking the Fifth Amendment.
Senator Mark Kelly, a former Navy combat pilot, says Trump “knows nothing about this stuff” after the catapult reversal order likely to cost billions.
Emily Moreno sues Rep. Max Miller after 400,000 people accessed his posted Dropbox folder containing a nude photo of their 2-year-old daughter.
Trump’s White House construction will cost at least $927 million with taxpayers covering most of it through a maintenance account, a Post review shows.
Rep. Lisa McClain falsely claims on Fox Business that 82% of women vaccinated in early pregnancy miscarried, citing a debunked misreading showing normal rates.
DOJ declares Trump’s talks with private advisers outside government covered by executive privilege, a shield against subpoenas if Democrats win Congress.
Trump says “stranger things have happened” when asked about declaring a national emergency to impose voting restrictions the Senate refused to pass.
GOP senators publish 11 of Fauci’s 34,000 seized texts, spotlighting an early 2021 exchange on vaccine risks in pregnancy the CDC later resolved.
Hegseth dedicates Joint Base Lindsey Graham a month after the senator’s death, joined by the sister appointed to his seat within a day.
Rep. Max Miller stays on Ohio’s November ballot after letting the GOP’s last replacement deadline pass despite domestic abuse allegations and an Ethics probe.
USPS narrows its quarterly loss to $2.5 billion but still projects running out of cash by early 2027 under its $15 billion borrowing cap Congress set in 1990.
Senate confirms Trump’s former defense lawyer Todd Blanche as attorney general 50-49, after he killed the $1.8 billion weaponization fund to win holdout Republicans.
Senate confirms Cameron Hamilton to lead FEMA 15 months after he was fired for telling Congress the agency should not be eliminated.
Senate votes 90-6 to fund the government through December 11, adding a provision barring Trump from blocking federal grants to states for political reasons.
Ohio’s second GOP senator calls on Rep. Max Miller to resign over abuse allegations 4 days before the deadline to replace him on the ballot.
FCC votes 2-1 to eliminate the 39% TV ownership cap Congress wrote into law in 2004, claiming authority to repeal the statutory limit itself.
Senate Republicans vote to hold Fauci in contempt after he invoked the Fifth Amendment 111 times, arguing his Biden pardon voids the protection.
Sen. McConnell, 84, leaves rehab for home recovery 7 weeks after his hospitalization, still refusing live appearances as Kentucky’s governor demands proof of capacity or resignation.
Kennedy’s HHS hands Sen. Ron Johnson’s panel a copy of Fauci’s government iPhone, days after his released journals exposed private medical histories.
Senate confirms Erica Schwartz as CDC director, filling a chair vacant since Kennedy ousted her predecessor for disagreeing on vaccine policy.
GOP Rep. Chuck Edwards quits his toss-up North Carolina race days after House Ethics recommended censure, leaving Republicans 3 months to find a nominee.
