Julie Tsirkin

The government will shut down this weekend, but the House is expected to reopen it quickly next week.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and Senate Democrats have a deal to fund most of the government for the rest of the year.

The agreement includes advancing five spending bills and funding the Department of Homeland Security for two weeks as lawmakers negotiate changes to DHS and ICE.

New “Trump Accounts” that provide $1,000 for babies are proving popular; Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent urged all families with kids under 18 to sign up.

Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Thom Tillis are the first GOP members of Congress to call for Noem to step down as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.

Rep. Julia Letlow announced Tuesday morning that she is running for Senate, after earning President Donald Trump's endorsement over the weekend for a Republican primary challenge against Sen.

Multiple employees at the Labor Department have been placed on leave amid an inspector general investigation into Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer.

President Donald Trump may at times do things that Republicans don’t like, but they say it’s not his fault.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has told his national security team that he would want any U.S. military action in Iran to deliver a swift and decisive blow to the regime and not spark a sustained war that dragged on for weeks or months, according to a U.S. official, two people familiar with the discussions and a person close to the White House.“If he does something, he wants it to be definitive,” one of the people familiar with the discussions said

The United States has started evacuating hundreds of troops from its largest air base in the Middle East ahead of potential military action by President Donald Trump against Iran, according to a U.S. official and a person familiar with the matter

Vice President JD Vance begins 2026 with a healthy head start toward the Republican presidential nomination that he is widely expected to seek in 2028