The band of far-right rebels supported a budget plan with a massive debt limit hike and a status-quo bill to keep the government open, two things they've long been fiercely against.

The district is also facing up to $1 billion in federal funding cuts due to a Republican continuing resolution bill.

WASHINGTON — The path to avert a government shutdown at the end of the week remains murky in the Republican-controlled Congress. Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is eyeing a House vote Tuesday on a ...

President Donald Trump campaigned as a champion of free speech, but First Amendment advocates say they've never seen freedom ...

Despite the ongoing spread of COVID, measles and bird flu, Trump has handed power to anti-vaxxers and vaccine skeptics.

The Education Department's civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration's layoffs.

As Jay Willis summarized at Balls and Strikes, the Republican megadonor has been “posting incessantly, calling for the impeachment of ‘fake,’ ‘corrupt,’ ‘activist’ judges for ...

VERY IMPORTANT,” he wrote on Truth Social. House Democratic leaders have already declared themselves firmly opposed to the GOP-written stopgap. They spent weeks trading offers with Republicans ...

Mahmoud Khalil's arrest is part of a post-9/11 tradition of American presidents citing “terrorism” as an excuse to ignore due ...

This once-proud party of Lincoln and Reagan has become a herd of RINOs, Republicans in name only, following their leader.

If you, or someone you know, has been impacted, click here to get 6 months of Slate Plus free. In December 2023 ... To understand how hyped GOP reps were about this opportunity to trap a ...