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Jeffries says Trump nuclear tests would be 'massive breach' of international law

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday hammered President Trump’s vow to reactivate America’s nuclear weapons testing, saying...

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Shutdown pain spikes this weekend, upping pressure on Congress to strike deal

The shutdown pain is set to spiral. After four weeks when the real-world impacts of the budget impasse have been relatively limited, a series of...

29.10.2025 10

Mike Lillis

SNAP funding expiration set to hit 40 million people

More than 40 million low-income food stamp beneficiaries are expected to receive less help with grocery bills — or no help at all — in the coming...

26.10.2025 200

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Dems bash administration for withholding SNAP funds: ‘Disgusting dereliction of duty’

Top House Democrats tore into the Trump administration on Friday night for withholding available food aid for millions of low-income Americans, saying...

25.10.2025 60

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Jeffries endorses Mamdani in New York City mayor's race

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Friday endorsed Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor, throwing his weight behind the Democratic...

24.10.2025 2

Mike Lillis

SNAP emerges as flashpoint in shutdown fight

The battle over food stamps has emerged as the latest flashpoint in the fierce partisan clash over government spending. Republicans in Congress are...

24.10.2025 40

Mike Lillis

Jeffries bashes GOP over new policy limiting Pentagon talks with Congress

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) hammered Republicans over the Trump administration’s new policy limiting Pentagon outreach to...

22.10.2025 5

Mike Lillis

Jeffries blasts GOP for refusal to seat Grijalva: 'A disgrace'

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday went after GOP leaders for refusing to seat a newly elected Democrat, saying the delay is...

21.10.2025 3

Mike Lillis

Live updates: Trump hosts Senate GOP lunch as shutdown strains increase

President Trump on Tuesday afternoon hosted Republican senators for a Rose Garden lunch as the government shutdown hits its three-week mark with no...

21.10.2025 10

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Johnson condemns alleged death threat against Jeffries by Jan. 6 rioter

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday denounced the alleged death threat against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) by a man who was...

21.10.2025 30

Mike Lillis

Jeffries urges Trump to jump into spending talks: ‘Get off the golf course’

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Monday that President Trump’s hands-off approach to the congressional budget impasse has...

21.10.2025 20

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Defiant Democrats embrace ‘No Kings’ rallies: ‘As American as motherhood, baseball and apple pie’

Defiant Democrats are embracing this weekend’s “No Kings” rallies, bashing the GOP’s attacks on the anti-Trump protests as an assault on free...

18.10.2025 50

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Jeffries bashes Trump’s $40B pledge to Argentina: ‘Corruption in real time’

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday hammered the Trump administration’s effort to provide $40 billion to help Argentina’s...

16.10.2025 100

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Speaker Johnson suggests House would return to fund DOD — but only if the government is reopened

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) suggested Wednesday that the House will not return to the Capitol to vote on an $852 billion Pentagon bill the...

15.10.2025 2

Mike Lillis

Trump, GOP send diverging shutdown messages on value of federal workers

Republican leaders in Congress and the White House are sending very different signals regarding the value of federal workers amid the ongoing...

15.10.2025 3

Mike Lillis

Pressure growing on Johnson to call House back amid shutdown fight

House GOP leaders are facing increasing pressure to bring the chamber back to Washington amid a shutdown fight with no end in sight. A growing number...

12.10.2025 50

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Jeffries says handshake deal to address health care is not enough to end shutdown

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Friday that a GOP commitment to address ObamaCare subsidies later in the year is not enough to end...

10.10.2025 4

Mike Lillis

Jeffries endorses stand-alone military pay bill

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that he would support a stand-alone bill to pay military personnel amid the shutdown....

09.10.2025 3

Mike Lillis

Democrats win momentum over GOP in shutdown fight

As the shutdown fight stretches into its second week, the winds have shifted in favor of the Democrats — at least for the moment. Early polls say...

09.10.2025 20

Mike Lillis

Pressure Points: Five ways the shutdown could end

Congress on Wednesday enters the eighth day of the federal shutdown with neither party giving an inch and the path to a resolution nowhere in sight. ...

08.10.2025 10

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Speaker Johnson wants furloughed feds to receive back pay, but suggests they might not

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Tuesday that federal workers furloughed during the shutdown should receive back pay, but he also raised the prospect...

07.10.2025 50

Mike Lillis

Jeffries: Trump is not talking to Democrats about health care, ending shutdown

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Monday that Democrats are involved in no talks with the Trump administration about ending the...

07.10.2025 20

Mike Lillis

Deep distrust hinders path to shutdown deal

The stalemate over how to reopen the government is being inflamed by something no policy provision can fix: A deep-seeded distrust between the leaders...

04.10.2025 3

Mike Lillis

Epstein victims will return to Capitol Hill next week

Victims of Jeffrey Epstein will return to Capitol Hill next week, when they will be hosted by a bipartisan group of lawmakers pushing the Trump...

03.10.2025 3

Mike Lillis

Jeffries says public pressure will bring Trump back to the negotiating table on shutdown

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that public pressure will force Republicans back to the negotiating table in search of a...

03.10.2025 5

Mike Lillis

Democrat presses Comer to have Vought testify on federal firings

A Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is pressing Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) to call President Trump’s budget director...

02.10.2025 5

Mike Lillis

Speaker Johnson defends agencies blaming Democrats for shutdown

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Thursday defended the Trump administration for using official agency websites to politicize the government shutdown,...

02.10.2025 2

Mike Lillis

Democratic leaders hold firm in face of mass firing threat: 'Cruelty is the point'

House Democratic leaders are holding firm in opposition to the Republicans’ spending bill, brushing aside new threats from the Trump administration...

02.10.2025 20

Mike Lillis

Jeffries challenges Trump over 'racist' AI video: 'Say it to my face'

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) on Tuesday challenged President Trump over a deepfake video that depicted the House Democratic leader in...

30.09.2025 4

Mike Lillis

House Democrats rally at Capitol in last-ditch effort to alter spending bill

House Democrats rallied in the Capitol on Monday evening in an 11th-hour strategy session with two distinct goals: To unify the party amid the...

30.09.2025 20

Mike Lillis

Jeffries warns of ‘five-alarm fire’ on shutdown, looming health care cuts

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) warned Monday that Democrats won’t accept any Republican spending bill that makes life more expensive...

29.09.2025 3

Mike Lillis

Jeffries bashes Trump budget director over layoff threat: ‘Malignant political hack’

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is hammering President Trump’s budget director for promising mass firings if the government shuts...

25.09.2025 20

Mike Lillis

Epstein discharge petition poised to hit its mark, forcing House vote to release files

Lawmakers in both parties fighting to force the Trump administration to release all the federal files on Jeffrey Epstein took a big step closer to...

25.09.2025 60

Mike Lillis

Dems launch probes into Trump’s border czar amid bribe allegations

House Democrats have launched a series of investigations into Tom Homan, President Trump’s border czar, amid allegations that he accepted $50,000 in...

24.09.2025 3

Mike Lillis

Jeffries: Dems will return to DC during recess to highlight lack of budget talks

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) announced Tuesday that Democrats will return to Washington early next week, when the House is formally...

23.09.2025 3

Mike Lillis

Congress locked in game of shutdown chicken as funding deadline nears

Congress is cruising at a steady clip toward a government shutdown at the end of the month, with both parties — and both chambers — pointing...

22.09.2025 20

Mike Lillis

Democratic leaders will support resolution honoring Charlie Kirk

House Democratic leaders will vote in favor of a GOP resolution condemning political violence and celebrating Charlie Kirk in the wake of last...

18.09.2025 3

Mike Lillis

Carlos Paz: Chief of staff, Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.)

Carlos Paz was a 20-something community organizer in his hometown of Houston when he took "a little detour" overseas that would shape his thinking and...

18.09.2025 2

Mike Lillis

Nnemdilim 'Nd' Ubezonu: Floor director, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

There are two types of Hill staffers: Those who come to Washington aching to join a congressional office, and those who find their way there almost by...

18.09.2025 3

Mike Lillis

Republicans charge ahead with GOP funding bill, raising shutdown odds

House Republican leaders are charging ahead with a GOP plan to extend government funding, rejecting Democratic pleas for bipartisan talks and...

17.09.2025 4

Mike Lillis

Parties agree that violence is a problem, but clash over the cause

The assassination of Charlie Kirk has united the parties in a sense of dread that the country has arrived at a dangerous place. How it got here,...

13.09.2025 30

Mike Lillis

Democrats dig in against GOP budget strategy, heightening odds of shutdown

Democrats are ramping up the pressure on GOP leaders over federal funding, drawing firmer red lines against the Republicans’ budget plans and...

11.09.2025 60

Mike Lillis

Pressure mounts on GOP leaders to extend ObamaCare subsidies

GOP pressure is mounting on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to extend expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits, as a number of rank-and-file Republicans...

09.09.2025 20

Mike Lillis

Jeffries says GOP will ‘regret’ revisiting Jan. 6

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) warned Republicans on Monday that they’ll regret their decision to reexamine the Jan. 6, 2021, attack...

09.09.2025 4

Mike Lillis

Epstein estate turns over 'birthday book,' other documents to House panel

The Epstein estate on Monday turned over a tranche of documents subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee, including at least one purporting to show...

08.09.2025 2

Mike Lillis

Distrust clouds Democratic strategy amid shutdown battle with GOP

House Democrats are hanging their hopes on party leaders in the Senate to block any government spending bill crafted solely by the GOP, but there’s...

07.09.2025 10

Mike Lillis

The Epstein discharge petition is headed for success — with a nudge from Dems

Incoming Democrats are poised to advance legislation forcing the Trump administration to release all the federal files on Jeffrey Epstein, the late...

05.09.2025 3

Mike Lillis

Republican rebels square off against GOP leaders on Epstein files

Republican rebels on Wednesday ramped up the pressure on their party to force the Trump administration to release its files on Jeffrey Epstein,...

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Epstein victims urge Congress to force DOJ to release files

A host of victims of Jeffrey Epstein appeared on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to deliver a simple message to Congress: Force the Trump administration to...

03.09.2025 5

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Massie says he’s confident he’ll get to 218 on Epstein discharge petition

The sponsor of the discharge petition seeking to publicize all the government files on Jeffrey Epstein said Tuesday that he’s confident the motion...

03.09.2025 30

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Dems launch probes into Trump’s border czar amid bribe allegations

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Democratic leaders will support resolution honoring Charlie Kirk

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Nnemdilim 'Nd' Ubezonu: Floor director, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)