Despite his role in delivering many of the GOP’s most consequential victories, the Kentucky senator is considered by some of his colleagues to be an unbearable moderate. What gives?

Mitch McConnell’s real legacy? He consistently enabled Trump and MAGA for years—then failed to act against Trump when it really could have counted.

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

At the Munich Security Conference, members of Congress faced a new challenge—proving that a U.S. on the verge of returning to Trumpism could still be trusted.

Behind all the political theater over the now-dead border bill, there is still a humanitarian crisis that’s been left to fester.

As the future of the former president’s candidacy hangs in the balance, GOP senators are taking a step back.

The GOP’s top dog in the Senate wants to push the big national security supplemental over the line, but too many of his colleagues are following the former president’s lead.

A staggering number of households across the country may lose broadband access if Congress doesn’t act.

Jamie Raskin and House Democrats unearthed dynamite. But they can’t subpoena. Senate Democrats can. So—will they?

The expansions on offer in the new bipartisan tax deal are more modest than the Covid-era changes, but advocates say the changes to the credit will reduce child poverty.

In a time of rank partisanship, lawmakers may reach a deal to extend key tax credits for families and businesses.

The Republican senator from Alabama spent 2023 turning himself into one of the most hated men in Washington—even by members of his own party.

The Ukrainian president spent the day lobbying for more funding to fend off Russia, and found lawmakers locked in a border dispute instead.

House Republicans will never let Hunter and Joe Biden out of their sights. Why don’t Senate Democrats feel the same way about Jared and Ivanka?

With only a few weeks left in the year and several items on the agenda, Johnson may need to assuage skeptical Republicans.

Behind the scenes at the Capitol—and beyond, by Grace Segers

The Arizona senator believes she single-handedly saved the U.S. Senate.

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

The upper chamber’s GOP members greeted the new speaker in the House with bemusement—and the need to google him.

The New Republic spoke to the New Jersey congressman about his run for Senate and the chaos in the House.