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At a Senate hearing on his nomination as a housing regulator, 37-year-old Bill Pulte cast himself as heir to his family’s building legacy, recalling job site visits with his grandfather, PulteGroup’s founder, and praisin…
Newly released House oversight committee texts show Jeffrey Epstein coached Steve Bannon during a six day stretch in August 2018, shaping TV performances and political messaging to defend Donald Trump and boost Bannon’s …
Last week, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stood in the Oval Office and praised President Trump’s drug pricing deal for weight loss drugs, thanking the chiefs of Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly. The move marked a sharp…
President Trump’s recent moves, from dining with Wall Street titans and backing visas for skilled foreigners to approving a $20 billion Argentina bailout during the shutdown, are fraying his populist brand and stirring d…
More than 1.4 million federal workers could start seeing paychecks as soon as this weekend, after a 43-day shutdown ended with House passage of a funding package that President Trump signed. An OMB schedule, first report…
President Trump signed a bill ending the longest U.S. government shutdown, reopening agencies after 43 days. Federal workers are returning Thursday, with back pay guaranteed but deposits varying by agency; travel disrupt…
As immigration enforcement intensifies, some undocumented families are relocating inside the U.S., seeking towns with fewer raids. In Florida, E., an undocumented mother, decided to leave after hostile stares in a Tampa …
President Donald Trump declared victory as a 43 day government shutdown ended, while Democrats turned on one another over a compromise that omitted relief for rising health care costs. Eight moderate senators backed the …
Virginia governor elect Abigail Spanberger asked the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors to pause its presidential search, arguing in a letter that the ouster of James E. Ryan reflected federal overreach and erode…
With Washington poised to reopen, SNAP benefits are expected to resume for about 42 million people, but days of delays have left deep anxiety and distrust. During the 43 day shutdown, the Trump administration resisted pa…
After nearly eight weeks away, House lawmakers return Wednesday to vote on a Senate-passed plan to end the record federal shutdown, now at Day 43. Speaker Mike Johnson voiced optimism, while President Donald Trump called…
Air travelers face worsening cancellations and delays as the FAA imposes deeper cuts at 40 major airports. After thousands of weekend cancellations, airlines scrubbed 1,700 flights by early Monday and about 1,000 for Tue…
House Democrats made a last-ditch bid Monday to extend pandemic-era Obamacare subsidies, as Rep. Glenn Ivey, D-Md., sought unanimous consent during a mostly empty pro forma session to approve the ACA tax credits without …
Under intensifying intraparty pressure, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer faced open revolt after eight members joined Republicans to advance a deal to end the nation’s longest shutdown, defying his demand to secure…
Rep. Ro Khanna blamed Sen. Chuck Schumer for a bipartisan deal to end the government shutdown and urged him to step aside, saying the Senate leader is out of touch despite past wins on CHIPS, the Inflation Reduction Act …
President Donald Trump on Monday shared a clip of Detroit Lions player Amon Ra St Brown performing the Trump Dance after a touchdown, a seeming answer to circulated videos of him being booed at the Lions Washington Comma…
President Donald Trump’s administration returned to the Supreme Court seeking to keep full SNAP payments frozen during the shutdown, despite lower-court orders to continue them. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson paused a jud…
Democrats erupted after party leaders agreed to reopen the government without securing an extension of enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, focusing their anger on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Although Schume…
Eight Senate caucus members who joined Republicans to pass a stopgap funding bill won’t face voters next year. The Senate approved the measure 60–40, reopening the government through January 30 with back pay for furlough…
Stefany Shaheen, running for a New Hampshire House seat on a health care platform, split with her mother, senator Jeanne Shaheen, over a deal to end the government shutdown that lacked an extension of Affordable Care Act…
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani named 74-year-old budget veteran Dean Fuleihan his first deputy mayor, the incoming administration’s first major hire as it eyes more than $10 billion in socialist proposals amid a nearly $5 bi…
House Speaker Mike Johnson urged members to return to Washington so the House can vote quickly on a Senate deal to end the longest U.S. government shutdown in history, which began Oct. 1. A day after senators narrowly ad…
After Democrats scored wins on affordability, Trump and his team flooded the airwaves with rosy claims that clash with recent data. Trump said prices are “down substantially,” while NEC Director Kevin Hassett insisted gr…
Brussels is preparing a digital omnibus to streamline tech rules by reopening the GDPR, easing data use for AI. Draft plans seen by POLITICO would let developers process special category data, reframe what counts as pers…
On Last Week Tonight, John Oliver celebrated Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City’s mayoral race over Andrew Cuomo, who was endorsed by President Donald Trump. He aired the mayor-elect’s speech and pushed back at pu…