President Donald Trump announced Friday that he commuted the prison sentence of former Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y.
A federal judge in California indicated she would expand her temporary ruling blocking federal worker layoffs during the government shutdown.
Trump’s latest budget maneuver — paying military salaries out of unrelated research funding — makes lawmakers’ appropriations authority practically irrelevant, critics argue.
The administration in court filings said it was holding off firing thousands of federal workers to comply with a temporary restraining order.
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to allow the deployment of National Guard troops in the Chicago area.
California Rep. Jackie Speier wants House Speaker Paul D. Ryan to force Texas Rep. Blake Farenthold to repay an $84,000 sexual harassment settlement. In a letter to Ryan last week obtained by HuffPost ...
Hundreds of Hill staffers turn out to greet West Virginia Sen. Jim Justice’s pet bulldog at her 6th birthday party.
Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., a Trump ally who leads the Senate Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee, deferred to ...
Lawsuit claims that firing federal employees during a shutdown is an unlawful abuse of power aimed at punishing workers, ...
With the government shutdown entering its third week, congressional action mostly consisted of dueling leadership news conferences this week.
To stop the cheating, Trump imposed Section 232 tariffs on foreign aluminum and steel imports during his first term in office. But after the 2020 election, Canadian aluminum imports skyrocketed under ...
The Supreme Court appeared ready Wednesday to rule against requiring Louisiana to have a second Black-majority district.