Interior Dept. asks Congress for $10 million more to cover Freedom 250 costs after promising private donors would fund events beyond the $150 million appropriated.
Grassley cancels the committee vote on acting Attorney General Blanche after two GOP senators demand written proof the $1.776 billion weaponization fund is dead.
Ex-White House adviser Fauci invokes the Fifth at a Senate COVID hearing, saying Chairman Paul called it solely to trap him into a false statement.
Energy Department names Idaho, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Utah as potential nuclear waste hosts while seeking to scrap the law requiring Yucca Mountain storage.
Trump eulogizes Graham as a force of nature at Washington National Cathedral, calling the senator’s sister and appointed successor his proudest legacy.
Kentucky Gov. Beshear demands McConnell prove he can serve or resign after 43 days without a vote, asking Senate leader Thune to investigate his condition.
Senate confirms Manhattan prosecutor Jay Clayton as intelligence director hours after the acting chief announced a fifth round of staff cuts since June.
House Ethics Committee opens a review of Texas Rep. Lance Gooden over what he says are spending allegations, its fifth Texas Republican probe.
Sen. McConnell remains medically uncleared to leave rehab six weeks after his fall as the Capitol physician’s office issues an update naming no doctor.
GOP Sen. Cassidy, who voted to confirm Kennedy, calls the CDC website’s claim linking vaccines and autism almost an insult to Americans.
Pentagon restarts its Iran war casualty count under a new Overseas Operations category, days after cutting four dead troops from the official toll.
McConnell’s spokesman tells the Washington Post the senator works from rehab, responding to transparency demands six weeks into his absence from the Senate.
Biden drops his lawsuit blocking release of his private ghostwriter recordings, clearing DOJ to hand them to House Republicans and the Heritage Foundation.
House votes 214-208 to end the Iran war, its second rebuke since June, hours before the Senate blocks a companion resolution and strikes continue.
Trump makes the Saudi nuclear deal contingent on normalizing relations with Israel, declaring no enrichment a day after officials said the pact might allow it.
House Judiciary Chairman Jordan asks the Justice Department to prosecute former special counsel Jack Smith for perjury his lawyers say Republicans never asked about.
Senate Republican blocks a bill barring taxpayer money to retrofit Trump’s Qatari jet after he flew home from Turkey on the old Air Force One.
House passes a ban on lawmakers buying stocks that lets them keep existing shares, the second bill today carrying Trump’s voter ID demand.
House votes to officially rename the Defense Department the Department of War, a change the Congressional Budget Office says could cost $125 million.
House passes a $1.15 trillion defense bill over Democratic objections to the Iran war, tying it to Trump’s stalled voter ID legislation.
Cornyn threatens to sink Kari Lake and Mastriano ambassador nominations unless the administration releases $1.3 billion in appropriated AIDS relief funding.
Senate Intelligence panel advances Clayton for DNI on a 9-8 vote after he refused to say who won the 2020 election.
Appeals court unanimously upholds Trump adviser Navarro’s contempt of Congress conviction, ruling he invented an executive privilege claim Trump never actually made.
Hegseth tells senators the Iran war will cost $37.5 billion by September as the Pentagon seeks $88 billion, most unrelated to the war.
House passes a stopgap funding bill through Dec. 4 on a mostly party-line vote as Senate Republicans plan a rewrite and Thune threatens reconciliation as backup.
North Carolina Rep. Edwards gave personalized handguns to two young female staffers now at the center of his House Ethics harassment investigation, Axios reports.
Missouri Senator Hawley says former majority leader McConnell owes voters an explanation for a month-long absence as Republicans hold a slim Senate majority.
Trump endorses Darline Graham for a full Senate term three days after she was sworn in to her late brother Lindsey Graham’s seat.
Epstein survivor Annie Farmer calls Blanche abrasive and condescending after the meeting a GOP senator required before voting on his confirmation as attorney general.
Trump orders voter roll purges and criminal probes of intelligence officials in a primetime address airing debunked election claims four months before midterms.
Former Obama White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler tells House investigators Epstein was a masterful liar who used respectable people to legitimize himself.
Senate hearings for Trump’s attorney general and spy chief nominees turn contentious in one day, spanning the weaponization fund, Epstein redactions, and 2020 election denial.
House defeats a $3.3 billion cut to Israel military aid 104-314, with more Democrats voting to end the funding than to keep it.
Trump says the FBI is wasting its time chasing conspiracy theories about Lindsey Graham’s death, a day after agents entered the senator’s Washington home.
Darline Graham, who has never held elected office, is sworn in to her late brother Lindsey Graham’s Senate seat a day after her appointment.
House votes 308-117 to make daylight saving time permanent, sending the Trump-backed Sunshine Protection Act to a Senate where it stalled last year.
Senate Democrats block the $1.15 trillion defense authorization bill, refusing to advance Pentagon programs while Trump resumes the Iran war Congress never authorized.
Protesters pack Sen. Collins’ Biddeford office chanting vote her out after ICE killed Joan Sebastian Guerrero, targeting her deciding vote for $70 billion in ICE funding.
Four House Democrats visit Cuba and compare the US energy embargo to a silent Gaza, with blackouts running more than 20 hours a day.
Republican senators echo conspiracy theories about Sen. Graham’s death and Sen. McConnell’s hospitalization, with Cornyn urging a toxicology report to rule out foul play.
Sen. Mitch McConnell says a fall that briefly knocked him unconscious led to his four-week hospitalization, with tests still finding no cause.
Medical examiner finds Sen. Lindsey Graham likely died of an aortic tear at 71, hours after returning from Ukraine and phoning Trump.
Kentucky Gov. Beshear demands Sen. McConnell “just tell us what’s going on” 27 days into a hospitalization his office describes only as continuing recovery.
Trump refuses to sign the decades-biggest housing affordability bill, which becomes law at midnight anyway, protesting the Senate’s failure to pass his voting restrictions.
Kentucky Gov. Beshear formally asks Sen. McConnell for a health update 24 days into a hospitalization his office has barely explained.
Sen. McConnell’s (R-KY) office declines new details three weeks into his hospitalization, days after released dispatch audio referenced cardiac arrest and CPR at his home.
Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner weighs his campaign’s future after a former partner’s sexual assault accusation surfaces one week before the state’s ballot deadline.
House Speaker Johnson urges Congress to restrict birthright citizenship over “birth tourism” days after the Supreme Court ruled the 14th Amendment protects it.
Paul Pelosi, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi’s husband, is expected to face a misdemeanor charge after hitting a parked car in Napa County and driving away.
House Democrats’ report accuses Freedom 250 of diverting donations meant for the congressionally chartered 250th anniversary commission to Trump’s group, potentially constituting wire fraud.
