Senator John Barrasso wants to politicize the disaster.

Damage from the Los Angeles fires is likely to be the most expensive in national history.

As Congress fought over the spending bill, Republicans snuck in a passage to gut funding for the IRS. And Democrats didn’t catch it.

Senator Rand Paul has made his opinions clear.

Republicans are trashing the government funding bill despite not having even seen it yet.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and Senator Lindsey Graham had similar warnings.

Donald Trump has yet to sign key presidential transition documents.

House Democrats urged the speaker to reconvene Congress and pass additional funding for FEMA, but Johnson had a better idea.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is furious that Mike Johnson is doing his job.

Even Fox News can’t believe how bad Mike Johnson is at his job.

Donald Trump wants congressional Republicans to shut down the federal government.

After being back for just one day, Mike Johnson is having to convince his fellow House Republicans to do their job.

Critics of the administration still feel it is falling short—but they believe the pressure they’re bringing is starting to be felt.

Beneficiaries of SNAP and WIC might end up getting caught in the crossfire of a proposed funding deal.

The Alabama IVF ruling has stoked fears that patients and their health care providers might soon be subject to criminal prosecution in cases where a hoped-for birth goes wrong.

The party had a hand in aiding the rise of a more extreme speaker. That may help with election-year messaging—but it could make things much worse.

The next task for a divided Congress is to find a way to put the “fun” back in “government funding.”

The chaos of Kevin McCarthy’s ouster has breached the upper chamber, where GOP members are worried about another deadline to avoid a government shutdown.

Disagreements between mainstream members of the GOP caucus and their far-right colleagues are getting personal.

The WIC program, which provides vital resources to the neediest families, usually gets the funding it needs without a struggle. Not this time.