Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) said Monday that it was time for House Republicans to reconvene and pass a new “clean” short-term funding bill amid the lack of progress toward ending the government shutdown. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has kept his members out of session since passing a stopgap measure in September to fund […]

Construction crews tore down the outside wall of the East Wing of the White House on Monday to build President Donald Trump’s desired ballroom. Trump announced one of his most ambitious construction projects of his second term in late July — a 90,000-square-foot ballroom, slated to cost roughly $200 million, though none of it will come […]

A coalition of 14 Republican-led states on Monday urged the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to adopt new federal rules requiring proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote, marking the latest front in the GOP’s nationwide election integrity campaign. The multistate effort, led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, backs a petition from America First Legal, […]

A panel of federal appeals court judges pressed the Trump administration on Monday over its creative use of appointment powers to keep Alina Habba in place as U.S. attorney for New Jersey, a test case that could reshape how presidents install top prosecutors without Senate confirmation. During more than an hour of arguments before the […]