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GOP finds early success battling Democrats' Medicaid message with legal threats

The House GOP’s campaign arm in recent weeks has successfully pressed three advertising companies to pull down Democratic billboard displays bashing...

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Spotlight shifts to Medicaid, a make-or-break issue for Trump

The adoption of the Republicans’ budget bill has thrown a spotlight onto the hot-button issue that could make or break President Trump’s domestic...

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Jeffries challenges Johnson to debate the GOP budget on the House floor

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) has formally challenged Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to debate the Republicans’ budget blueprint on...

09.04.2025 40

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Democratic leader predicts GOP holdouts will cave and support Senate budget bill

The head of the House Democratic Caucus said Tuesday that he’s expecting conservative Republicans to cave and back a Senate-passed budget bill when...

08.04.2025 2

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Democrats reject Johnson-Luna deal to kill proxy voting 

The Democratic sponsors of legislation empowering new parents to vote remotely are rejecting a recent alternative from Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.)...

08.04.2025 10

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Jeffries accuses Trump of tanking the economy to create opportunities for the rich

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Monday accused President Trump of intentionally crashing the economy to benefit the GOP’s wealthy...

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Political pendulum swings back toward Democrats

Embattled Democrats have new reason to hope. The party has spent the early months of the year soul-searching the causes of a bitter election defeat...

03.04.2025 10

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Democrats reject advice to 'play dead,' vow hard fight against Trump’s domestic agenda

A month ago, James Carville, the highly influential Democratic strategist, advised his party to “play dead” and allow President Trump and his...

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Democrats ramp up town halls in GOP districts

House Democrats are ramping up their aggressive strategy of conducting town halls in Republican-held districts, vying to exploit the GOP’s advised...

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Debt limit time crunch could test both parties

House Democrats are sending an early warning shot as the government’s borrowing window inches to a close: winning Democratic support for a...

26.03.2025 10

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Top House Democrat calls for Hegseth to resign: ‘Endangered lives of American troops’

The fifth-ranking House Democrat called for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to resign Tuesday for sending sensitive military action plans over an...

25.03.2025 2

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Jeffries calls for investigation of top Trump officials after bombshell military breach

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is calling for Congress to investigate top Trump administration officials in the wake of a bombshell...

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Allure of higher office could hinder House Democrats' midterm hopes

House Democrats vying to flip control of the lower chamber in next year’s midterm elections may face a new challenge: the exodus of battleground...

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Distrust dogs Democrats as they prepare for battles with Trump

The aftermath of last week’s bitter spending fight has forced Democrats to wonder whether trust levels between the two chambers can be rebuilt ahead...

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Schumer at center of civil war after funding fiasco

Democrats on Capitol Hill are waging an internal war against one of their own after the GOP successfully muscled through the Senate a partisan...

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Maxine Waters: Trump is ‘working towards a civil war’

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) is accusing President Trump of seeking to start a civil war. The California Democrat, a long-time adversary of Trump,...

14.03.2025 60

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House Democrats bash Senate colleagues for backing GOP spending bill: ‘Huge slap in the face’ 

House Democrats are furious at their fellow Democrats in the Senate for supporting a Republican spending bill, saying Minority Leader Charles Schumer...

14.03.2025 40

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Liberals eulogize Grijalva: 'A real giant of the House'

Progressive Democrats wasted no time eulogizing the legacy of Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), a progressive lion of the lower chamber who died on...

14.03.2025 4

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Democrat: Trump supporters ‘did not vote for this ---- storm’ 

House Democrats of all stripes have spent the entirety of President Trump’s first two months denouncing his governing strategy as chaotic and...

13.03.2025 20

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Democrats are heading to GOP districts for town halls: 'We’re filling a void'

House Democrats are heading to Republican districts to conduct town halls — a strategy designed to highlight the moratorium on those public events...

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Top House Democrats press Senate colleagues to sink GOP spending bill

The top House Democrats are pressing their fellow party members in the Senate to kill the Republicans’ spending bill when it reaches the upper...

12.03.2025 40

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Nail-biter spending vote could hinge on Trump-district Democrats

Centrist Democrats are keeping ‘em guessing. Heading into Tuesday’s vote to fund the federal government, almost a dozen House Democrats in...

11.03.2025 30

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Trump-district Democrats face risky vote on GOP spending bill

House Democrats in districts carried by President Trump are confronting a potentially risky vote next week when GOP leaders are expected to put their...

09.03.2025 10

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Democratic leaders bash GOP’s spending plan: ‘Not acceptable’

House Democratic leaders warned Friday that they won’t back a long-term extension of current funding levels, which GOP leaders are teeing up for a...

07.03.2025 3

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Jeffries bashes GOP for ‘illegal immigrant’ smear again House Democrat: ‘Disgusting’

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is hammering the Republicans’ campaign arm for falsely characterizing a Hispanic member of Congress...

06.03.2025 8

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Jeffries defends conduct of ‘majority’ of Democrats during Trump speech

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is defending the conduct of the “majority” of his fellow Democrats during President Trump’s...

05.03.2025 7

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Democrats disrupt, protest and wear pained expressions for Trump’s speech

House Democrats greeted President Trump’s return to Congress on Tuesday with a spirited series of disruptive protests – and a number of painful...

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DeLauro rejects one-year stopgap spending bill backed by Republicans: ‘Nonstarter’

The top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee is rejecting the idea of a stopgap spending bill to fund the government at current levels...

04.03.2025 5

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Democrats want Trump to confront the human toll of layoffs at address to Congress

Democrats on Capitol Hill have bashed President Trump over mass federal firings since the first dismissals began in January. On Tuesday, they’re...

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Trump-Zelensky clash highlights Congress at a crossroads over foreign policy

The explosive clash between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House on Friday has sparked a firestorm on Capitol...

01.03.2025 3

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Ocasio-Cortez asks DOJ: Am I under investigation?

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) wants to know if she’s in legal hot water. In a highly unusual letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi,...

28.02.2025 3

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Democrats denounce Trump’s gilded vision of Gaza: ‘Despicable’

House Democrats are lashing out at President Trump this week over his vision to turn the Gaza Strip into a luxury playground. The lawmakers said...

27.02.2025 10

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Dem absences could help GOP pass its budget

House Democratic absences on Tuesday could help GOP leaders move their massive budget blueprint through the lower chamber. With just a hairline...

26.02.2025 20

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Dems press agencies to ignore Musk: ‘Reckless, cruel, unlawful, and unenforceable’

House Democrats are pressing every major agency head in Washington to reject the recent demand from Elon Musk that federal workers must detail...

24.02.2025 4

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GOP scrambles to win over moderates on budget resolution

Senate passage of a budget resolution designed to execute large parts of President Trump’s policy agenda throws the ball back to the House, where...

24.02.2025 10

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Trump’s vow to preserve Medicaid collides with House GOP plan for tax cuts

President Trump’s vow to keep Medicaid intact is colliding headlong into the Republicans’ strategy to extend their 2017 tax cuts, complicating the...

20.02.2025 30

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Democrats aim to maximize GOP pain in passing Trump agenda

Democrats on Capitol Hill have little power to prevent GOP leaders from moving President Trump’s ambitious policy agenda through Congress this year....

19.02.2025 5

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Democrats nervously wait on Trump response to court rulings

House Democrats howling over the flood of unilateral actions streaming from the White House are voicing confidence that the courts will provide a...

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Jeffries says Republicans ‘walked away’ from spending talks

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that the bipartisan talks aimed at preventing a government shutdown have ended — at...

13.02.2025 3

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Democrats vow hardball in shutdown fight: ‘I’m not a cheap date’

House Democrats are vowing to play hardball in the partisan battle over government spending, driving to extract steep concessions from Republicans who...

12.02.2025 10

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Democrats reject Johnson’s finger-pointing: ‘Full of s‑‑‑’

Top House Democrats are pushing back hard against accusations from Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) that they’ve walked away from the negotiations over...

08.02.2025 50

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Jeffries amps up call for two-state solution after Trump push to seize Gaza

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday flatly rejected President Trump’s proposal for the United States to take over the Gaza...

05.02.2025 10

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Jeffries vows to use government shutdown fight to combat Trump orders

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Monday that Democrats will use the coming battle over government funding as a vehicle to block...

03.02.2025 3

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Democrats leave 'emergency' meeting vowing ‘street fight’ in response to Trump actions

House Democrats launched a multilateral effort Wednesday to combat the flood of executive actions from President Trump, vowing to punch back through...

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Trump’s spending freeze roils Capitol Hill

The Trump administration’s expansive freeze on federal grants and other executive spending roiled Washington on Tuesday, drawing howls from...

29.01.2025 20

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Trump deportation blitz intensifies — as does the criticism

President Trump’s deportation blitz is picking up steam — along with criticism from Democrats that the administration’s actions will harm...

28.01.2025 30

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Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship sparks GOP divisions 

President Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship is dividing House Republicans, highlighting internal differences on the thorny topic of...

26.01.2025 40

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Schiff invited on Trump California trip

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said Friday that President Trump invited him and California’s other Democratic senator, Alex Padilla, on a visit to...

24.01.2025 4

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Jeffries: Trump's release of violent Jan. 6 felons 'undermines public safety'

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) hammered President Trump on Thursday for pardoning those charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the...

23.01.2025 5

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Democrats weighing limits on presidential pardons after Trump, Biden moves

House Democrats are calling for Congress to rein in the president’s pardon powers after President Trump’s mass clemency for the Jan. 6 mob and...

23.01.2025 10

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