Democrats block measure they say didn’t go far enough – and was bundled with ‘poison pill’ voter ID rules The US Senate on Wednesday blocked a Republican bill restricting stock trading by members of Congress, after Democrats refused to advance a measure they said would let lawmakers keep the

GOP senators lash out on Smith, who led criminal cases against Trump, with invective and inaccurate information Former special counsel Jack Smith, who led two criminal cases against Donald Trump in 2023, faced attacks from Republicans in a wide-ranging hearing on Tuesday that included a basketball m

Mike Lee objected to the safeguard against the demolition of any presidential memorial Congress designates US politics live – latest updates A Republican senator has blocked a bipartisan bill that would have prevented Donald Trump from demolishing the Kennedy Center without the approval of Congres

Republicans could lean on congressional procedure to defy the will of voters. But if they try that, the Senate has a clear way to fight back Having lost his mail-in ballot case , Donald Trump will probably resort to ever more extreme ways to try to hold a Republican Congress in November’s election

John Kennedy pushes back against such spending as pro-Trump ‘public service announcements’ air before midterms As the White House expands a taxpayer-funded advertising campaign to promote Donald Trump ’s political agenda before the November midterm elections , US senator John Kennedy told CBS

President using rare power to revoke expenditure with bipartisan approval to aid immigrant services Donald Trump is canceling nearly $1bn in spending approved by Congress, the White House announced on Friday, using a rare and contested power to axe funding for immigrant services and diversity-focuse

Court puts end to long-running legal dispute as it rules Republican-friendly map cannot be used in November The supreme court on Friday turned away an attempt to use a new Missouri congressional map backed by Donald Trump, putting an end to a long-running legal dispute as absentee voting is under wa

Greg Steube’s Flafo Act would require federal agencies to obtain warrants before accessing or sharing data from networked license plate readers A Florida Republican has introduced a bill that would bar US federal agencies from using Flock Safety’s licence plate cameras and similar systems withou

Xi is expected to depart Washington after touring the nation’s vault of records, where the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are held Sign up for US Breaking News emails In our second live discussion ahead of the elections, Joseph Gedeon, Dara Kerr and Chris Stei

GOP stymies House-passed war powers resolution as conflict passes 200-day mark with 19 US service members killed Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked a Democratic effort to end the US war with Iran, voting down a House-passed war powers resolution as the conflict that has killed 19 American servic

A federal judge had ruled Trump administration must immediately return the outlets’ press passes and said ban likely unconstitutional Sign up for US Breaking News emails Yesterday evening, after briefly taking the case under consideration, a federal judge ordered the White House to temporarily res

The court’s decision was based entirely on the timing of proposed new mail-in ballot rules. The larger question could re-emerge Last week’s supreme court decision upholding the district court’s restraining order on USPS’s mail-in ballot restrictions is being hailed as a victory for electoral