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President Donald Trump arrives Wednesday to speak at Wheeler High School in Marietta, Ga. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Trump in Georgia: Ossoff, Democrats ‘want to let the Marxists into power’

By John T. Bennett
Posted July 22, 2026 at 6:26pm
A visitor tours the Korean War Veterans Memorial during a government shutdown on Oct. 20, 2025.

Surge in veterans’ brain injuries shown in VA records

By John M. Donnelly
Posted July 20, 2026 at 8:52pm
With narrow majorities, fewer deal-makers and power struggles with the president, paths once open to Congress are closing. Above, workers place concrete jersey barriers near the Capitol ahead of the State of the Union in 2022.

How Congress is losing its path(s)

By Valerie Yurk and Savannah Behrmann
Posted July 20, 2026 at 5:00am
Rep. Chip Roy arrives at the Capitol on June 11, 2026. A reconciliation bill critic, he skipped the budget markup vote on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Budget resolution faces dicey House vote after committee approval

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted July 16, 2026 at 6:37pm
House Minority Whip Katherine M. Clark, D-Mass., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., conduct a news conference on April 22. The two differed on an amendment that would zero out aid to Israel.

Dems split on Massie effort to zero out Israel security aid

By John T. Bennett
Posted July 15, 2026 at 8:32pm
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., walks through the Senate subway area in the Capitol with a security detail on June 2. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

No Graham heir apparent to help shape Trump’s foreign policy

By John T. Bennett
Posted July 15, 2026 at 5:13pm
Vice President JD Vance, above, and Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., huddled with the House GOP conference in the Capitol basement for a roughly 45-minute pep talk Wednesday.

White House lobbies skeptical Republicans on reconciliation bill

By Jacob Fulton
Posted July 15, 2026 at 12:05pm, Updated at 7:54pm
President Donald Trump speaks Monday before signing an executive order to drastically shrink two national monuments in Utah. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump informs Congress of renewed military action against Iran

By Rebecca Kheel
Posted July 13, 2026 at 6:16pm
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks to the press as President Donald Trump and several GOP lawmakers look on during an Oval Office event on Feb. 3. (SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump loses his ‘Senate whisperer’ after Graham’s sudden death

By John T. Bennett
Posted July 13, 2026 at 2:49pm, Updated at 10:26pm
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., the ranking member on the House Appropriations Committee, raised the issue of cuts to medical research during the panel's June markup of the fiscal 2027 Defense spending bill. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Defense funding to research troops’ brain injuries shrank since 2025

By John M. Donnelly
Posted July 13, 2026 at 8:21am