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Grant Faint/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A sharply divided Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that the Trump administration must comply with a district court order and pay out nearly $2 billion in foreign assistance funds to [Read More…]

House Speaker Mike Johnson appears on ABC News’ “Good Morning America” on March 5, 2025. (ABC News) (WASHINGTON) — As Washington sought on Wednesday to make sense of President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress, [Read More…]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Delivering the Democrat response to President Trump’s joint address to Congress, Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan accused him of having no credible plan to deal with high grocery and home prices. [Read More…]

Tom Brenner for The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In a dramatic scene only a few minutes into President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress on Tuesday, a longtime Democratic congressman interrupted the [Read More…]

Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump, six weeks into his historic return to the White House, delivered the longest joint address to Congress in history on Tuesday night. Trump [Read More…]

Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump turned the nation’s attention to Devarjaye “DJ” Daniel, a 13-year-old who aspired to become a police officer but was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2018, [Read More…]

Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Six weeks into his presidency, Donald Trump addressed Congress and the nation Tuesday evening, laying out his goals for the next four years. ABC News, along [Read More…]

Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump is addressing a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, six weeks into his historic return to the White House. The speech comes after markets tumbled following [Read More…]

Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Education Secretary Linda McMahon has released what she calls the “final mission” for the Department of Education, as the Trump administration appears to be laying the groundwork for [Read More…]

Bill Pugliano/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The theme of President Donald Trump’s high-profile address to Congress and the nation on Tuesday night is “Renewal of the American Dream,” but he’s also expected to remark on what his second-term [Read More…]

Hyoung Chang/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department on Monday filed a highly unusual motion stating its intent to review a state-level conviction of a Trump ally who was sentenced [Read More…]

Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump unlawfully removed a member of a federal office that protects government employees from partisan interference, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras granted a [Read More…]

Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Rep. Richard Hudson, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, encouraged House Republicans to do more virtual events over in-person town halls, according to multiple [Read More…]

Pete Kiehart for The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Donald Trump, six weeks into a historic comeback to the White House, on Tuesday heads to Capitol Hill to address Congress and the nation [Read More…]

Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A potential government shutdown looms large as President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night — where he’s sure to face a divided audience [Read More…]

Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump will deliver a joint address to Congress on Tuesday evening during which he’ll no doubt try to highlight the ways he is delivering on the [Read More…]

Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — At his address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday, President Donald Trump is expected to face dozens of civil servants fired from their positions across [Read More…]

Francis Chung/Politico/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The website of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency provided its third weekly update of federal government cost-cutting Sunday night, claiming total government savings of $105 billion, up [Read More…]

Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Conservative legislators are increasingly speaking out against the Supreme Court’s landmark 2015 ruling on same-sex marriage equality. Idaho legislators began the trend in January when the state House and Senate [Read More…]

Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — A federal judge wants to hear directly from one of the top officials at the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau to learn if the Trump administration is unlawfully [Read More…]