Senate Republicans push bill to authorize $400 million for White House ballroom

Virginia Democrats won a strikingly narrow victory in last week’s snap election referendum, altering the commonwealth’s constitution by reversing a supermajority-supported ban on partisan gerrymandering. The outcome was opposed by almost 49% of statewide voters, who were subjected to an unremitting and lavishly funded “yes” propaganda campaign that even NPR admitted had sown widespread confusion. […]

The president struck a conciliatory tone Saturday night, but administration officials later accused journalists and Democrats of fueling divisive rhetoric.

Four Democratic senators are investigating accusations that the Pentagon was unprepared for an Iranian attack on U.S. forces in Kuwait that killed six service members.  Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) on Sunday wrote a letter to War Secretary Pete Hegseth suggesting that Washington failed “to take […]

Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ) addressed his prolonged absence from Capitol Hill in a statement Monday, saying he will be back on the job “very soon.” Kean, who has not voted in the House since March 5 due to an undisclosed medical problem, said he plans to “return to a full schedule and be at […]