Vice President JD Vance helped spare President Donald Trump another embarrassing defeat on the Senate floor Wednesday, casting a tiebreaking vote to kill a resolution reining in his ability to conduct military operations in Venezuela. The Senate voted 51-50 to table the measure, reflecting the White House’s continued but wavering sway over a Republican Congress. […]

A federal court ruled Wednesday that California may proceed with a new congressional map designed to favor Democrats in the midterm elections.  The 2-1 decision from a panel of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California allows the state to implement a map that Democratic leadership argues is a necessary countermeasure to […]

Congress is one step closer to avoiding a government shutdown after the House passed two funding bills on Wednesday, but Democrats’ issues with the Department of Homeland Security funding bill and time constraints in the Senate still put Washington in danger of seeing a lapse in funding. The House voted 341 to 79 to pass […]

The six Democratic lawmakers who made a video urging U.S. military members to refuse illegal orders have each been contacted by the Department of Justice, according to Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO). Crow appeared in the November video alongside five fellow veteran lawmakers: Sens. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ), and Reps. Maggie Goodlander (D-NH), […]