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Phil Roeder/ Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Congressional leaders and the White House have reached agreement on how to fund the Department of Homeland Security, one of the last hurdles to prevent an approaching partial government shutdown deadline Friday — but it might not come together in time. Funding for DHS was the final major sticking […]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Congressional leaders have at last reached agreement on the overall price tag of the next batch of government spending bills, sources tell ABC News — a major step toward averting a partial shutdown that is set to begin later this month. Details of the deal, struck by leadership in the House […]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Congressional leaders in both parties are signaling an increased willingness to punt the deadline to fund the government to later this year, possibly delaying a looming government shutdown until the winter and buying lawmakers more time to hash out government funding bills. During a closed call with the Republican conference last […]

Photo by Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In the wake of the Supreme Court’s Friday ruling striking down the Biden administration’s student loan debt cancellation plan, Republicans are moving forward with their own proposed solution. Conservative lawmakers from both chambers, vocally opposed to the president’s landmark program, which they said was an overreach, celebrated […]

Photo by Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said Monday he will initiate contempt of Congress hearings this week over FBI Director Chris Wray’s refusal to physically turn over a document that Republicans believe is related to President Joe Biden. Comer’s announcement followed a briefing by FBI officials in […]

Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on Friday added more urgency to the fight over the debt limit, now saying there is a “significant risk” the U.S. will default on its debt “at some point in the first two weeks of June.” In a new report, the agency […]

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Dual investigations into Hunter Biden’s financial dealings could enter crucial but divergent phases in the coming weeks as congressional scrutiny of the president’s son ramps up and federal prosecutors press forward in their years-long probe of his tax affairs and overseas business endeavors. The status of […]