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Flood-damaged contents from homes line the roads along residential streets in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey in Houston. (Mike Blake/Reuters) While parts of Texas are still submerged from the historic flooding wrought by Hurricane Harvey, four members of Congress who represent the state voted against sending it billions in federal disaster aid. GOP Reps. Joe Barton, Jeb […]Read More

President Trump signed a bill Friday to deliver $15 billion in disaster aid and also extend government funding and the federal borrowing limit until Dec. 8, despite objections of Republican lawmakers who booed two top White House officials earlier in the day over the deal Trump struck with Democrats. The measure passed a morning House […]

Then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer, left, and then-Chief of Staff Reince Priebus in May. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Sean Spicer and Reince Priebus are among six current and former White House aides with whom special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is likely to seek interviews in his Russia investigation, as The Washington Post’s Carol D. Leonnig, Rosalind S. Helderman […]Read More

Eight years ago, as a once-in-a-generation Democratic Senate supermajority debated health-care reform, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) kept their focus narrow. As the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Baucus was focused on passing a reform bill that moderate Republicans could support. At one point, he had single-payer health-care supporters removed from a hearing; Sen. Bernie […]

Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has alerted the White House that his team will probably seek to interview six top current and former advisers to President Trump who were witnesses to several episodes relevant to the investigation of Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election, according to people familiar with the request. Mueller’s interest in […]

Democratic leaders have been running victory laps in the days since they struck a deal with President Trump, over Republican objections, to extend the nation’s borrowing limit and keep the government open for three months. But new divisions among Democrats show that peril may yet lie ahead for Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) […]

In a major upcoming Supreme Court case that weighs equal rights with religious liberty, the Trump administration on Thursday sided with a Colorado baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. The Department of Justice on Thursday filed a brief on behalf of baker Jack Phillips, who was found to have […]

(Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters) In this occasional series, we will bring you up to speed on the biggest national security stories of the week. This week, Facebook announced that a Russian company had spent $100,000 on thousands of political advertisements during the presidential election campaign. It is unclear whether the firm, described as a “troll farm” based in St. […]Read More

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on Sept. 7, she told President Trump that “people really need a reassurance” that the 6-month phase-out of DACA will not increase deportations in that time. He tweeted a similar sentiment after their conversation. (Reuters) When House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) wanted President Trump to reassure DACA […]

A woman holds up a signs in support of the Obama administration program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP) Nearly 800,000 young undocumented immigrants have taken advantage of the deferred deportation program President Barack Obama created in 2012. So when President Trump announced Tuesday he would end it in six […]

Stephen K. Bannon, then-chief White House strategist to President  Trump,  in Harrisburg, Pa., on April 29. (Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press) Some were surprised to see Catholics back President Barack Obama, who held liberal views on social issues including abortion, after the group supported George W. Bush’s reelection. Then, President Trump won the Catholic vote in 2016, […]Read More

President Trump commiserated with Kuwait’s emir during a press conference on Sept. 7, saying he’s “very, very honored and happy to know that you have problems with the media also.” (The Washington Post) President Trump used a familiar bonding activity to commiserate with the emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Ahmed al-Sabah, during Thursday’s joint news conference […]Read More