Republican lawmakers are beginning to fear they’ll have to enact billions of dollars in new aid to rescue farmers harmed by President Donald Trump’s escalating trade wars with China, Canada and Mexico ...

President Donald Trump prodded congressional leaders to consider recess appointments for his top nominees and expressed ...

Speaker Mike Johnson and the Republicans are racing to pass a budget reconciliation plan by April, but new internal divisions threaten their ambitious agenda.

President Donald Trump has declared an all-out war on congressional power. And his allies on Capitol Hill aren’t doing much ...

Even as the GOP takes unified control of the House, Senate and White House on Monday, congressional leaders are facing doubts about just how quickly they will be able to deliver major wins for Donald ...

two people granted anonymity to speak freely about the behind-the-scenes talks told our Meredith Lee Hill. That’s a good sign for appropriators, who reiterated to us Tuesday night that they want ...

Many economists — from liberals and progressives to conservatives and libertarians — were hoping that President Donald Trump ...

Many Democrats were furious when President Donald Trump, on Tuesday, January 28, issued an executive order freezing federal government funds. Trump, they argued, had no right to do that — as the ...

The moves detailed below are designed to exploit those core strengths in new ways. Meredith Lee Hill, a fiercely competitive Capitol Hill journalist who embodies POLITICO’s dedication to scoops ...

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham has been back-channeling with some members of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus — picking their brains and giving them advice on trillions of dollars in overall ...

“I haven’t seen the list,“ Speaker Mike Johnson told my colleague Meredith Lee Hill. “I haven’t had a chance to evaluate it.” And when Trump essentially flipped them the bird on TikTok ...

Essential text msg: “The stakes for Trump’s agenda and Speaker Johnson are incredibly high this week,” POLITICO Congress reporter Meredith Lee Hill told us via a Sunday night Slack message ...