Senator Tim Kaine says people are “overdramatizing” things.

The Democratic Senate leader has lost the thread. Everyone is suffering because of his lack of judgment.

The House speaker has repeatedly indicated this would be the case, and yet eight senators still caved.

The deal does not actually include extending Obamacare subsidies.

What are they thinking?

Adam Schiff is calling out Donald Trump’s extrajudicial boat attacks.

Republicans are wigging out about the consequences of Donald Trump’s tariffs.

The Democratic senator has a stark warning for any federal employees considering Trump’s offer.

Russell Vought, Project 2025 mastermind and Trump’s nominee for the Office of Management and Budget, had quite a testy confirmation hearing.

The Biden administration's open-ended escalations in the Middle East are starting to feel like the sequel to a bad movie.

The administration's escalation of an open-ended conflict with the Houthis has reawakened the long-running debate over who has the power to go to war.

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

Lawmakers are at loggerheads over whether to expand flights from a local Washington airport.

The debt ceiling agreement forged by President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will save the economy from default, but the vibes on Capitol Hill were still decidedly mixed.

Party leaders thought they had set a trap for Republicans. It hasn’t worked out that way at all.

They might not fully appreciate what House Speaker Kevin McCarthy would be willing to do to keep his speakership.

Lawmakers are poised to rescind the blank-check authorizations to use military force that the executive branch was handed decades ago.

The side deal that Chuck Schumer and Joe Manchin cut to pass the Inflation Reduction Act now threatens to be the proximate cause of a government shutdown.

“I know everything about my caucus,” the Senate majority leader enthused. “I care about them. I love them.”

The senator from Washington state hopes to address the urgent needs of working families—and shift perceptions of a Democratic Party that’s struggled to fulfill its promises.