WASHINGTON — Some foreign-policy-minded senators are dismissing President Donald Trump’s assessment that Iranian officials have been disrupting the Strait of Hormuz to influence the midterm elections.

Several senators — Democratic and Republican — furrowed brows or shook their heads Wednesday when asked about Trump a day earlier ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House’s growing frustration with Senate Majority Leader John Thune seeped into public again on Thursday, the second consecutive day team Trump has vented at the chamber’s Republican leader.

“His patience is running out,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, referring to President Donald Trump’s ...Read more

NEW YORK — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was coy last year when asked if the feds would be seeking to rename Penn Station as part of their takeover of the project — but now the demand is explicit.

In a letter sent Wednesday to Senate leadership on several committees — a copy of which was obtained by the Daily News — Duffy lists �...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Three Republican candidates and the state Republican Party are seeking a court order to remove a Libertarian candidate from the November ballot in one of the nation’s most important midterm congressional elections, in South Florida’s 25th Congressional District.

The contest in the newly created Broward/Miami-Dade/...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will visit Michigan on Monday and deliver remarks about the economy, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday.

Trump's visit comes on the same day that the Gordie Howe International Bridge, a new and vital economic passage between the United States and Canada, will open to traffic.

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WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday again formally called on President Donald Trump to end the war in Iran, days after four U.S. troops in the Middle East were killed.

In a 214-208 vote, the House approved a war powers resolution from Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., that would direct the president to “remove the use of United States Armed ...Read more

MIAMI — A crowd of about 300 gathered at the Little Haiti Cultural Complex on Wednesday to hear eight candidates vying to succeed Congresswoman Frederica Wilson in District 24.

In attendance were entrepreneur Te Mayonna Brown; cultural arts leader Marshall L. Davis; Miami-Dade Commissioner Oliver Gilbert; state Sen. Shevrin Jones; attorney ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Morgan Griffith would love to eat an all-beef hot dog.

But the eight-term Virginia Republican from one of the biggest cattle-producing districts in Congress doesn’t eat red meat — against his will.

Griffith is one of the at least 450,000 Americans who have been diagnosed with alpha-gal syndrome, a disease caused by a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans released a revised cryptocurrency regulatory framework bill on Wednesday with an added section intended to address public officials’ potential crypto conflicts of interest. But more work remains to be done before the measure can get to the floor.

Democratic negotiators, incensed at President Donald Trump’s ...Read more

Congressional Republicans’ scrutiny of the Smithsonian intensified this week, exposing a sharp divide within Maryland’s congressional delegation over who should decide how America’s history is told in the nation’s museums.

Rep. Kweisi Mfume, a Baltimore Democrat, accused the Trump administration of trying to erase Black history, while ...Read more

President Donald Trump is poised to impose fresh levies on products from dozens of economies by Friday, according to people familiar with the matter, a move to ensure his tariff regime remains intact even after stopgap 10% global duties lapse.

The Trump administration last month proposed new tariffs of at least 10% on 60 trading partners, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As Congress struggles, yet again, to pass a funding extension to head off a government shutdown this fall, House appropriators took some time Wednesday to think about other ways of doing business.

For more than three hours, the Appropriations Committee debated the merits of tweaking the budget process in an effort to take ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House adopted a GOP-backed budget resolution along party lines Wednesday, taking a critical first step toward passing a $95 billion reconciliation package focused mostly on the Iran war.

The vote on the fiscal 2027 budget blueprint was 216-214, with only two Republicans — Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Warren Davidson ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump was in Georgia’s Cobb County on Wednesday, diving into one of the nation’s most closely watched political battlegrounds where Republicans are looking to flip a Senate seat in November.

The president and the GOP were hopeful his remarks at what was ostensibly an official White House event on the economy ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers took a step Wednesday toward reining in their own stock trading, a move Republicans hope will burnish Congress’ image as they head home for an extended August break.

In a mostly party-line 232-198 vote, the House passed a GOP-led bill that would bar members of Congress, their spouses and dependent children from buying...Read more

MIAMI — Florida’s Congressional District 20 has faced political headwinds in the middle of a key election year after a mid-year redistricting process that changed the demographics of the historically Black congressional district.

The race has also garnered national attention as sitting Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced her ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers went for a Smithsonian sequel this week, as a top museum official and a nearly identical group of witnesses appeared for their second congressional hearing.

Republicans have thrust the National Museum of American History into the spotlight and accused it of rewriting history two days in a row, first at the House ...Read more

With less than four months until a federal ban on most hemp-derived THC products is set to take effect, time is running short for lawmakers supporting the hemp industry to roll back the strict new rules.

A new bipartisan bill introduced Wednesday is the latest effort in Congress to replace the ban with a new framework to regulate and tax hemp-...Read more

Embattled Central Florida Congressman Cory Mills is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice, according to reports from MS Now and ABC News.

The focus of the probe is unclear, though a source told MS Now that the FBI contacted at least one person last year about the Republican Congressman’s finances, allegations of misconduct ...Read more