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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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 3

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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...

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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...

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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 30

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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...

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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...

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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 2

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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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Here are the biggest fights Democrats are bracing for in Trump's second term

House Democrats are bracing for major fights in the coming year as President Trump enters the White House for his second term and Republicans control...

21.01.2025 8

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In Crawford, Johnson picks an Intel chair with ‘America First’ leanings

In choosing Rep. Rick Crawford (R-Ark.) to chair the House Intelligence Committee, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has tapped a veteran conservative with...

17.01.2025 20

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Lawmakers play high-stakes game of chicken in fight over California fire aid

The battle over wildfire aid for Los Angeles is quickly evolving into a game of high-stakes chicken. Many Republicans are demanding conditions on any...

16.01.2025 9

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Thompson, chair of Jan. 6 committee, has talked with White House about pardons 

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), who headed Congress’s special investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, said Tuesday that he...

14.01.2025 4

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Top Democrat rejects any conditions on wildfire aid

House Democratic Caucus Chairman Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) on Tuesday flatly rejected Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) proposal for conditions to be put...

14.01.2025 2

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House Republicans face massive debt problem

House Republicans have a problem. They want to pass a massive agenda for President-elect Trump, preferably in his first 100 days of office. And they...

12.01.2025 40

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Congress braces for California wildfire fallout

House lawmakers are bracing for what could be a contentious battle over emergency spending in the wake of the wildfires that are tearing through...

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Dems bash Meta for scrapping fact-checks: 'Genuflecting to Donald Trump'

House Democrats are hammering Meta and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, after the company announced the platform-wide end of its fact-checking program. The...

09.01.2025 7

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Jeffries: ‘Confused’ by Trump’s ‘obsession’ with Greenland

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) hammered President-elect Trump on Wednesday for what he characterized as an “obsession” with a U.S....

08.01.2025 3

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Johnson battles for the Speakership: 5 things to watch

Friday’s Speaker vote is shaping up to be a nailbiter as Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.), the current House leader, is scrambling to keep the gavel for...

03.01.2025 8

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All Democrats expected to participate in Speaker’s vote 

All Democrats are expected to be in the Capitol on Friday for the vote to seat the next Speaker of the House, according to the Democratic whip’s...

02.01.2025 4

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House Republicans have an ‘audience of one’ dilemma with President-elect Trump

The drag-out fight over government spending has highlighted how House Republicans — for all the ideological divisions between their clashing...

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Johnson says plan C reached to avert shutdown, vote expected

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Republicans have arrived at a plan C to avert a shutdown and the House will vote Friday morning on the...

20.12.2024 6

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Jeffries: GOP led by wealthy 'puppeteers'

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) slammed GOP leaders Thursday evening after the Republicans' Trump-backed plan to fund the federal...

20.12.2024 30

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Dems say 'hell no' to GOP Plan B on government funding, debt ceiling

House Democrats are rallying in overwhelming opposition to the Republicans' second stab at a government funding bill, vowing to sink it on the...

20.12.2024 40

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Jeffries says bipartisan funding deal is ‘best path,’ but doesn’t rule out thinner bill

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that the spending deal secured by the two parties is the “best path” for avoiding a...

19.12.2024 4

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Jeffries suggests Democrats will oppose a 'clean' funding bill after Johnson's plan falters

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) suggested Wednesday that Democrats will oppose any federal spending bill that strays from the...

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Connolly defeats Ocasio-Cortez to lead Democrats on Oversight panel

Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) on Tuesday defeated Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) to lead Democrats on the Oversight and Accountability...

17.12.2024 6

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Craig wins seat to lead Dems on House Agriculture Committee

House Democrats voted Tuesday to make Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.) their top member on the House Agriculture Committee, choosing a junior member of...

17.12.2024 20

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The Hill's Changemakers: Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas)

Rep. Jasmine Crockett rocked the boat this Congress — just her first term on Capitol Hill — and there's no reason to think she won't make more...

17.12.2024 10

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Democrats divided over Biden administration response to reported drone sightings

The Biden administration’s response to mounting public concern over alleged drone sightings in the northeast is dividing Democrats on Capitol Hill,...

17.12.2024 10

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Democratic panel recommends Craig for top seat on Ag Committee

A key Democratic panel voted Monday to recommend Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.) to be the top Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee in the next...

17.12.2024 20

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Connolly bests Ocasio-Cortez in key vote to lead Democrats on Oversight panel

Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) on Monday claimed the first round of the two-step contest to lead Democrats on the House Oversight and Accountability...

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Youth movement among House Democrats is overrated

The youth movement among House Democrats? Don't believe the hype. Even as a few Democratic committee heads are being pushed aside for younger...

16.12.2024 20

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Scott skips interview with Black Caucus amid race Agriculture race

Rep. David Scott (D-Ga.) skipped an interview on Wednesday with the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) as the race heats up for the top Democratic...

12.12.2024 6

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Jeffries: No Dems will support Johnson for Speaker on House floor

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is expected to keep his gavel in the next Congress after receiving glowing reviews from President-elect Trump. But if...

11.12.2024 4

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Jeffries: Democrats not telling members how to vote on NDAA

House Democratic leaders will not tell their members how to vote on the measure to reauthorize Pentagon spending that is hitting the floor...

11.12.2024 5

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Head of Dem Caucus wants Pence's Jan. 6 testimony made public

The head of the House Democratic Caucus wants to make public the testimony former Vice President Pence gave to a grand jury surrounding the attack...

10.12.2024 4

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Jan. 6 investigators say Trump trying to 'send a message' with calls for their imprisonment

Members of the special committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol are hitting back at President-elect Trump after he...

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