1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (1345+ words) President Donald Trump unveiled a nearly $2.2 trillion spending request for fiscal 2027 Friday that features an enormous defense boost, posing a major challenge to GOP leaders as they seek an election-year spending deal with Democrats. National security spending would soar to…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (781+ words) President Donald Trump unveiled on Friday'a nearly $2.2 trillion discretionary spending request for the coming fiscal year, a nearly 21 percent increase over the current year's level because of a dramatic proposed boost in defense funding. The election-year spending blueprint doubles down…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (1049+ words) President Donald Trump's effort to curtail mail voting through executive order will likely be ruled illegal in at least one of several lawsuits filed this week, experts said, the latest in the president's long-running effort to assert federal control of…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago  (1069+ words) Welcome to At the Races! Each week we bring you news and analysis from the CQ Roll Call campaign team. Know someone who'd like to get this newsletter? They'can'subscribe here. By Mary Ellen McIntire and Daniela Altimari Republican leaders have…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago  (812+ words) President Donald Trump ousted Pamela Bondi as attorney general Thursday, closing out a tumultuous tenure punctuated by rolling controversies and attacks against the Justice Department's traditional independence from the White House. Trump, who made the announcement in a social media…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago  (177+ words) If the line separating church and state in America has not yet disappeared, it is certainly fading fast. The evidence? A Supreme Court willing to rule in favor of faith-based lawsuits; a secretary of Defense framing the war in Iran…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (150+ words) Jason Dick and Jessica Wehrman wonder what members of Congress are doing on their two-week recess, coming as it does while the Homeland Security Department isn't being funded by Congress, as well as what they did, and observed, on recent…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (1186+ words) As Democrats vie to take control of Congress in the midterms this fall, their main message on health care policy is fairly straightforward: Undo Republicans" Medicaid cuts and restore the health care subsidies that lapsed at the end of last…...

3+ day, 32+ min ago  (565+ words) A group of Democratic senators led by Elizabeth Warren is pushing the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to rein in abuses from Medicare Advantage insurers as the Trump administration considers a policy that would enroll more seniors in the…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (277+ words) The Senate took the first step Thursday in a GOP-backed plan to reopen the Department of Homeland Security, sending the House for a second time its bill to fund the department except for immigration enforcement. Trump set a June 1 deadline…...