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President Donald Trump, here with Speaker Mike Johnson on the House steps on March 12, is backing a funding fix for the District of Columbia budget. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

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Trump endorses Senate-passed DC budget fix

Move comes after an executive order aimed at making District ‘safe and beautiful’

By Aidan Quigley and Andrew Menezes
Posted March 28, 2025 at 1:08pm

The Supreme Court building is seen at sunset in Washington.

Congress

US asks Supreme Court to allow Trump action on Venezuelan gang

By Chris Johnson
Posted March 28, 2025 at 1:13pm
Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, faces a challenging climate on fiscal 2026 bills.

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Tough climate for appropriations

By David Lerman, Aidan Quigley and Caitlin Reilly
Posted March 28, 2025 at 6:40pm
Corinna Delgado of DC News Now interviews “Teddy Roosevelt,” one of the Washington Nationals’ “Racing Presidents” mascots, during media preview day at Nationals Park on March 21. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Heard on the Hill

Photos of the week | March 21-27, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted March 28, 2025 at 10:33am
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe testify during the Senate Select Intelligence Committee hearing on Tuesday.

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Busy Signal — Congressional Hits and Misses

By Chris Hale
Posted March 28, 2025 at 3:31pm
Presidential candidate Donald Trump greets New York Rep. Elise Stefanik on the second day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 16, 2024.

Trump pulls Stefanik nomination to be UN ambassador

By John T. Bennett
Posted March 27, 2025 at 3:36pm, Updated at 10:04pm
A report from an independent watchdog, released by the House Ethics Committee on Thursday, details allegations against Rep. Florida Republican Cory Mills.

House Ethics panel continues scrutiny of Rep. Cory Mills

By Justin Papp
Posted March 27, 2025 at 6:25pm

Track and shape policy faster than ever.

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted January 15, 2025 at 11:59am
The E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse.

Judge orders Trump officials to preserve Signal group chat records

By Michael Macagnone
Posted March 27, 2025 at 5:41pm
President Donald Trump is seen on a monitor watching footage of U.S. military strikes on Yemen’s Houthi rebels as White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt addresses reporters on March 17.

As Democrats focus on Signal use, team Trump flashes familiar definition of war

By John T. Bennett
Posted March 27, 2025 at 5:12pm
The March for Life proceeds down Constitution Avenue after their rally on the National Mall in Washington on Jan. 24.

Fully in power, GOP targets Planned Parenthood

By Sandhya Raman
Posted March 27, 2025 at 4:22pm

How to Track and Monitor Executive Orders

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted March 5, 2025 at 11:43pm
Chris Rocheleau, acting administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, testifies at the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation panel hearing on the Potomac River crash investigation. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

FAA data should’ve been red flag before crash, senators say

By Valerie Yurk
Posted March 27, 2025 at 4:20pm
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna is working to retain limited GOP support for her effort to allow House parents to vote by proxy after birth. Above, she is seen in 2024 with GOP Rep. Tim Burchett, another supporter of the proxy exception.

‘I’m not going to be bought’: Luna digs in on parental proxy voting 

By Nina Heller and Justin Papp
Posted March 27, 2025 at 3:52pm
Paul Atkins, the nominee for the Securities and Exchange Commission, prepares to testify to the Senate Banking Committee Thursday.

Democrats doubt Atkins’ judgment; GOP embraces him for SEC chair

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
Posted March 27, 2025 at 3:40pm

Read the latest issue

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted March 23, 2020 at 11:36am

At the Races: Spring fever

By Mary Ellen McIntire, Daniela Altimari and Niels Lesniewski
Posted March 27, 2025 at 3:15pm
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the Hubert H. Humphrey Building in Washington on March 10.

HHS to cut 10,000 jobs, ‘streamline’ operations

By Lia DeGroot and Sandhya Raman
Posted March 27, 2025 at 11:20am
Vehicles awaiting shipment are parked at a port Thursday in Yokohama, Japan. President Donald Trump announced his plan to impose a 25 percent tariff on imported automobiles.

Trump adds 25 percent tariff to car, light truck imports

By Olivia M. Bridges
Posted March 27, 2025 at 10:44am
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., conducts a news conference in the Capitol on Tuesday. Sens. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., also appear. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Budget timeline moves up in Senate as GOP preps flexible targets

By David Lerman and Caitlin Reilly
Posted March 27, 2025 at 10:35am
Dr. Marty Makary, nominee to be commissioner of the FDA, appears before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee for his confirmation hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington on March 6.

Targeting FDA user fees would leave agency gutted, experts say

By Lia DeGroot
Posted March 27, 2025 at 7:00am

Capitol Ink | Distress Signal

By R.J. Matson
Posted March 27, 2025 at 7:00am
Rep. Derek Schmidt worked for a pair of senators in the 1990s. Above, he testifies at a Senate hearing in 2019, during his time as Kansas attorney general.

Thirty years later, Rep. Derek Schmidt is back on the Hill

By Jackie Wang
Posted March 27, 2025 at 6:15am
Donald Trump looks down from the presidential box in the Opera House at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on March 17.

The shrinking of American culture can only lead to groupthink and frustration

By Mary C. Curtis
Posted March 27, 2025 at 6:00am
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., conducts a news conference after the Senate luncheons in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Democrats had months to head off Schumer’s no-win dilemma

By Steven Pearlstein
Posted March 27, 2025 at 5:30am
Cherry blossoms bloom in Lower Senate Park on Wednesday with the Capitol in the background. Congressional staffers looking for jobs this March describe a landscape further complicated by “DOGE’d” federal workers. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Spring brings no relief for Dem job-seekers on the Hill

By Jim Saksa
Posted March 27, 2025 at 5:00am
The E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse in Washington, D.C.

Appeals court keeps temporary hold on Trump deportation move

By Chris Johnson
Posted March 26, 2025 at 7:35pm
Pennsylvania Democrat Janelle Stelson, who lost a bid for the House in 2024, is weighing another challenge to GOP Rep. Scott Perry.

Some losing House candidates get a second look for 2026

By Daniela Altimari
Posted March 26, 2025 at 6:48pm
CIA Director John Ratcliffe and FBI Director Kash Patel, left, arrive at a House Select Intelligence Committee hearing Wednesday that featured questions on the Signal chat about attacks against Houthis in Yemen that included a reporter.

Democrats seek criminal probe over group chat on Houthi strike

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted March 26, 2025 at 6:16pm
President Donald Trump greets members after addressing a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, March 4, 2025.

White House halts long-running HIV research network for youth

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted March 26, 2025 at 4:41pm

Capitol Lens | Bloomsday

By Bill Clark
Posted March 26, 2025 at 4:22pm
Sen. J. Bennett Johnston, D-La., in August 1988.

Louisiana’s former Sen. J. Bennett Johnston dead at 92

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted March 26, 2025 at 4:19pm
JD Vance speaks with Donald Trump on Jan. 20 during an inauguration ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda before they were sworn in as vice president and president respectively. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images file photo)

Signal posts shed light on Vance’s views on military force and foreign policy

By John T. Bennett
Posted March 26, 2025 at 4:16pm
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., references a copy of the Signal chat about attacks against Houthis in Yemen that included a reporter, while questioning witnesses during the House Select Intelligence Committee hearing on Wednesday.

Bipartisan chorus seeks probes after Signal group chat incident

By Briana Reilly and John M. Donnelly
Posted March 26, 2025 at 4:13pm
From left, FBI Director Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence, and CIA Director John Ratcliffe testify during the House Select Intelligence Committee hearing on Wednesday.

Gabbard stands by use of Signal chat as Democratic ire grows

By Caroline Coudriet
Posted March 26, 2025 at 3:49pm
A beam of sunlight breaks through the cloudy skies to illuminate the Supreme Court in Washington.

Supreme Court sounds skeptical of ending FCC program

By Michael Macagnone
Posted March 26, 2025 at 3:43pm
Katherine Maher of NPR and Paula Kerger of PBS prepare to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency on Wednesday.

Greene calls for ‘complete and total’ defunding of NPR, PBS

By Jim Saksa
Posted March 26, 2025 at 3:07pm

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