WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance’s attempts Wednesday to sell Republicans’ massive tax and spending law to Pennsylvania voters were overshadowed by President Donald Trump’s clash with his base over the Jeffrey Epstein scandal and mixed messages about potentially firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

Trump spent much of ...Read more

Gov. Ron DeSantis, touting himself as someone committed to fraud-free, glitch-free elections, said Wednesday that he removed Broward County’s then-supervisor of elections when he came into office.

He didn’t. The county official in question, Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes, was out of office for five weeks by the time DeSantis was ...Read more

U.S. Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, R-Pa., already mounting his reelection campaign months into his first term, is leading in fundraising against three prospective Democratic opponents in the 7th Congressional District.

Mackenzie, a Republican who narrowly ousted Democrat Susan Wild from the seat representing the Lehigh Valley last year, is considered a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Democratic National Committee unveiled a new website Wednesday to highlight what it says are the costs of the Republicans’ sweeping tax and spending package, seeking to show how the law will affect Americans’ energy bills, health insurance coverage and paychecks.

The website, the details of which were shared first with CQ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he is “not planning on doing anything” to remove Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, after floating the idea in a closed-door meeting with congressional Republicans that leaked to the media.

“No, we’re not planning on doing anything,” Trump told reporters Wednesday when asked if he wanted ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s former defense attorney Emil Bove appears to be on a glide path to approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, his first formal hurdle in a bid to become a circuit court judge.

Republicans on the committee have raised no major objections to Bove’s nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Adelita Grijalva, the daughter of the late Arizona Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva, prevailed over four fellow Democrats in Tuesday’s primary for the special election to serve out the remainder of her father’s term.

A former Pima County supervisor, the younger Grijalva was leading with 62% of the vote when The Associated Press called ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Wednesday derided some MAGA loyalists as “weaklings” for demanding that he order the release of files related to notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

As outrage builds over his effort to turn the page on the scandal, Trump slammed a group of what he called his “past supporters” for refusing to back down from ...Read more

U.S. Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif., have introduced a petition in favor of releasing most files related to the case of Jeffrey Epstein, the late disgraced financier and child sex offender.

The Department of Justice’s reluctance to produce more documents related to Epstein since President Donald Trump took office has ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene disagrees with President Donald Trump on funding weapons for Ukraine, on whether the Epstein files are worth releasing and on how to regulate cryptocurrency.

And that’s just this week.

She also has split with him on support for Israel and, for a time, on passing his signature ...Read more

With President Donald Trump continuing to bulldoze through American politics, Democrats are forced to confront a fundamental question: Do voters even want what they’ve been offering?

The meteoric rise of Zohran Mamdani, a fiery young Democratic Socialist who recently claimed a shocking New York mayoral primary win, points to a grim answer.

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WASHINGTON — Three pieces of cryptocurrency legislation and the fiscal 2026 Defense appropriations bill appeared ready for House floor action on Wednesday after stalling out for much of the day on Tuesday.

After a group of conservative Republican lawmakers sank the rule for floor debate over objections to how the crypto bills were being sent ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The rift within the Republican Party over the release of documents related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein continued to widen, with top congressional allies of President Donald Trump — including House Speaker Mike Johnson — calling for his administration to exercise greater transparency.

The growing controversy has ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Virginia Foxx sat at the front Monday night and smiled slowly before her face stiffened.

She pinched her thumb against her pointer and middle fingers and rubbed them together.

She started to speak, just for a moment, but instead clenched her jaw.

Then she narrowed her gaze on Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, a Democrat from ...Read more

Central Florida U.S. Rep. Cory Mills could face eviction from a luxury Washington, D.C., penthouse after his landlord sued and accused him of failing to pay tens of thousands of dollars in rent.

The Republican congressman owes about $85,000 in missed rental payments from March until this month, Bozzuto Management Co. alleged in a lawsuit filed ...Read more

President Donald Trump returned to Pennsylvania on Tuesday to tout massive private sector investments in artificial intelligence and energy in the key battleground state, but he also found time to weave into unrelated topics, including taking potshots at his predecessor.

Trump’s visit took him to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh for ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Republican appropriators are running into headwinds in their attempt to move fiscal 2026 spending bills before the August break, struggling both with a tight schedule and intraparty differences on funding levels that threaten House passage.

House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., conceded Tuesday that his panel won...Read more

President Trump on Tuesday accused Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., of committing mortgage fraud by intentionally misleading lenders about his primary residence being in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., rather than California, in order to “get a cheaper mortgage and rip off America.”

Schiff, who led a House impeachment of Trump during the ...Read more

ATLANTA — The 2026 elections may seem like a long way away, but that’s not how Georgia state lawmakers see it.

Plans — from new voting machines to even more new voting laws — are already underway as a special legislative committee dominated by Republican lawmakers met for the first time Tuesday.

Members of the House Study Committee on ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland’s oldest lawmaker hasn’t announced whether he’ll run for reelection. But if he doesn’t, it won’t be for lack of funding.

Rep. Steny Hoyer, a Prince George’s County Democrat, raised roughly $232,000 during the second fundraising quarter, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings. After expenses, ...Read more