New White House chief of staff Stephen Miller will be a key player in whether any bipartisan immigration deal gets done or is even seriously talked about as the Trump administration adjusts to the new normal of big Democratic congressional majorities. The selection of Miller, an immigration hard-liner, as a replacement for former chief of […]

House Democrats‘ midterm euphoria came to a crashing halt on Capitol Hill this week, as two voting setbacks pierced the party’s victory lap. The caucus failed to defeat a Republican effort to kill articles of impeachment against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Tuesday, and on Wednesday, a measure cutting some veterans’ benefits to increase […]

Katie Bailey is facing down a Sisyphean task. The new director of the White House’s Office of Legislative Affairs will have one of the toughest directives of any Trump administration official across the next two years: advance President Donald Trump’s priorities on Capitol Hill, all while handling the deluge of investigations expected to be launched […]

Sen.-elect Abdul el Sayed (D-MI) is betting President Donald Trump’s appetite for political credit could create an opening for one of Democrats’ most ambitious healthcare proposals — or leave Republicans defending their opposition to expanded coverage. El Sayed, a progressive Democrat who has championed “Medicare for all,” has repeatedly invited Trump to embrace the legislation, […]