The Senate Ethics Committee dismisses Rep. Luna’s (R-FL) complaint accusing Sen. Gallego (D-AZ) of inappropriate advances and campaign finance violations, finding no evidence of wrongdoing.
Twenty-five Democratic-led states and Washington sue the Trump administration over Medicaid work rules, arguing the illness exemptions are too narrow to protect the medically frail.
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez calls for breaking up big tech companies as Apple and others raise prices, saying the firms want to act like governments.
Five million people have dropped ACA coverage for 2026 after Trump and Republicans let enhanced subsidies expire, roughly doubling premiums, new federal data shows.
House Oversight Chair Comer subpoenas billionaire investor Leon Black for the deposition and the women’s NDAs he refused to discuss during a voluntary Epstein interview.
An Alaska judge restores retired teacher Dan J. Sullivan to the U.S. Senate ballot against Senator Dan S. Sullivan, finding no evidence the challenger meant to confuse voters.
Rep. Kean (R-NJ), who hasn’t voted or appeared in public since March 5, won his primary in absentia and returns June 30 to hold a fundraiser the same day.
The Senate rejects a measure to restrain Trump’s Iran war powers, reversing the bipartisan rebuke it approved two days earlier as Republican swing votes retreat under White House pressure.
Trump cancels the signing of a bipartisan housing bill that cleared both chambers with veto-proof margins, holding it hostage until the Senate passes his stalled voter-restriction act.
The House Oversight Committee releases the full transcripts of Bill Gates’s and Epstein’s longtime assistant’s testimony, both maintaining they never witnessed his crimes.
The Senate approves a war powers resolution on Iran 50-48, the first time both chambers have formally rebuked Trump over the war he launched.
The House passes the bipartisan 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act 358-32, sending it to Trump’s desk after the Senate’s 85-5 vote.
A one-year Republican ban on Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood expires July 5 with no extension, after the Senate parliamentarian capped it at one year and the GOP concedes it lacks the votes.
The Senate passes a bipartisan housing affordability bill 85 to 5, restricting large companies from buying single-family homes and waiving some environmental reviews for new construction.
Vance says Iran will let U.N. nuclear inspectors back in, but Tehran says nuclear negotiations have not begun.
Senate education chair Bill Cassidy, a Republican, promises a July vote to block the Trump administration from shifting special education to RFK Jr.’s health department.
The Pentagon tells lawmakers it needs $80 billion to cover the Iran war and other costs, warning the services could run out of operating money this summer, with no war authorization ever sought.
The White House quietly redirects more than $350 million in OBBBA Secret Service funds toward the ballroom project, days after Congress refused Trump’s $1 billion request and despite his no-taxpayer-money pledge.
Republican Representative Tom Kean Jr. of New Jersey, unseen in Washington and absent from every House vote since March 5, says he will return June 30 after a 100-day medical absence.
Trump’s FEMA nominee Hamilton, fired last year for opposing the agency’s elimination, tells senators it should shift disaster costs to states.
Trump cancels the Senate confirmation hearing for his national intelligence pick to force Congress to first confirm his personal lawyer as Manhattan U.S. attorney.
Congressional staff tour the Texas prison camp where Maxwell got transferred after clearing Trump, but prison officials block questions about her treatment.
Internal documents show the White House ballroom will cost $600 million with taxpayers covering more than half, despite Trump’s repeated promise of zero public funds.
The Education Department moves special education oversight to HHS and school civil rights enforcement to the Justice Department, advancing its own elimination.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers demands the National Science Foundation halt the dismantling of a $386 million ocean observatory network, accusing it of skipping legally required notice to Congress.
Former Senate Republican leader McConnell, 84, is hospitalized for the second time this year, with his office declining to say why.
Trump and allies push Congress to expunge his two impeachments, a power legal scholars say the Constitution does not give lawmakers.
Ohio Republicans place a constitutional amendment requiring photo voter ID on November’s ballot, enshrining a requirement already in state law since 2023.
Trump picks Manhattan U.S. attorney Jay Clayton for intelligence chief as his interim choice of housing regulator Bill Pulte sinks surveillance law renewal.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates tells the House Oversight Committee he never knew of Epstein’s crimes but that Epstein leveraged his marital affairs against him.
Florida’s Supreme Court lets Republicans use newly gerrymandered House districts in the midterms, potentially handing the GOP four more seats.
Twenty House Republicans defy Speaker Johnson to pass a bill fast-tracking first contracts for new unions, the fourth successful discharge petition this Congress.
Trump-backed Pamela Evette advances to a South Carolina governor runoff as Nancy Mace finishes fifth and blames her vote to release the Epstein files.
Social Security trustees project the trust fund empties in late 2032, forcing an automatic 22% benefit cut of roughly $500 monthly unless Congress acts.
House passes $70 billion for ICE and Border Patrol by a 214-212 vote, funding the agencies through the end of Trump’s term without Democratic support.
Georgia Republicans seek to impeach Judge Eleanor Ross as the Justice Department pushes to remove her from its voter roll case against the state.
Trump formally nominates his former defense lawyer Todd Blanche as attorney general, sending the choice to the Senate.
Pentagon reverses its religious-affiliation list after Latter-day Saints lawmakers protest being excluded from its Christian categories.
Lawyer who defended Ken Paxton in his impeachment and fraud cases endorses Democrat James Talarico in the Texas Senate race.
Activists move their “Trump and Epstein Memorial Reading Room,” displaying all 3.5 million pages of the released DOJ files, to downtown Washington for the president’s birthday.
House committee votes along party lines to codify the Defense Department’s renaming as the Department of War, a change Trump ordered in September.
Justice Department tells a federal court it won’t proceed with Trump’s $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund while urging the judge not to block it.
Known donors to Trump’s White House ballroom won more than $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months, a watchdog finds, while the full donor list stays secret.
Senate rejects Schumer’s motion to permanently kill Trump’s $1.8 billion fund to compensate January 6 rioters, 49 to 50, as three Republicans cross over.
House votes 215 to 208 to halt the Iran war, but the measure still needs the Senate and may not legally bind Trump.
New York’s Assembly advances an amendment to allow partisan redistricting, a Democratic bid to answer Republican map redraws and net four House seats by 2028.
Senate Republicans drop up to $1 billion for Trump’s White House ballroom from their budget package, denying a project he pushed for weeks.
Acting Attorney General Blanche says the administration is permanently killing its $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund but keeping the order that shields Trump’s family from tax audits.