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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., speaks during a hearing of the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Tentative deal is reached in House Republican fight over proxy voting for new parents

A tentative deal has been reached in the House in the fight over proxy voting for new parents. House Speaker Mike Johnson and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, who has been leading the bipartisan push for proxy voting, reached the tentative deal.
 
President Donald Trump walks to board Marine One after speaking with reporters on the South Lawn of the White House, April 3, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Takeaways from the Senate budget vote: Tariff pressure, debt worries and signs of GOP unease

 
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sits before President Donald Trump arrives to speak at an education event and executive order signing in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Texas governor blames county’s elections problems for delay in filling vacant congressional seat

 
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R- Iowa, takes his seat as the panel meets to consider prescription drug pricing and other measures, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Congress has the power to halt Trump’s tariffs. But Republicans aren’t ready to use it

 
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., joined by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., the GOP whip, left, talks to reporters at the Capitol, in Washington, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate GOP approves framework for Trump’s tax breaks and spending cuts after late-night session

 

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., joined by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., the GOP whip, left, talks to reporters at the Capitol, in Washington, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Republicans moving ahead with Trump’s ‘big’ bill of tax breaks and spending cuts amid tariff uproar

 
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is joined by Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., right, as they speak to reporters about President Donald Trump's so-called "Liberation Day" of tariffs on foreign countries, at the Capitol, in Washington, Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Measuring the cost of extending Trump’s tax cuts becomes a flashpoint in Congress

 
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., center, is joined from left by Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., and Sen. Angela Alsobrooks, D-Md., as they speak to reporters about President Donald Trump's tariffs on foreign countries, at the Capitol, in Washington, Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate rebukes Trump’s tariffs as some Republicans vote to halt taxes on Canadian imports

 
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., joined by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., the GOP whip, left, talks to reporters at the Capitol, in Washington, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trump gives GOP senators his support as they charge ahead on tax package and spending cuts

 
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., takes questions on tariffs while meeting with reporters at a news conference, at the Capitol, in Washington, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Speaker Johnson suffers a defeat in his push to block parents in the U.S. House from proxy voting

 
Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-AZ., speaks during the opening session of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) Legislative Conference at the Hilton Washington DC National Mall The Wharf, Tuesday, March 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

A Democratic senator is putting holds on VA nominees to protest Trump’s plans to cut its workforce

 
Sunlight shines through the flags of Canada and the United States, held together by a protester outside on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Feb. 1, 2025.(Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

A Senate vote to reverse Trump’s tariffs on Canada tests Republican support

 
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks with reporters after President Donald Trump spoke at an education event and executive order signing in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

No timetable from Texas governor on filling late Democratic congressman’s vacant seat

 
A Tesla robot is displayed as U.S. robotics companies look for congressional support to compete with Chinese companies, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

US robotics companies push for national strategy, including a central office, to compete with China

 
The headquarters for National Public Radio (NPR) stands on North Capitol Street, April 15, 2013, in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Congressional Republicans target PBS, NPR funding in contentious hearing

 

Live updates: National security leaders face questions on Signal leak during House hearing

 
President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson of La., listen at the annual St. Patrick's Day luncheon at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Republicans eye actions against the courts and judges as Trump rails against rulings

 
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee gestures as a campaign event at the Drexelbrook Catering & Event Center, Oct. 29, 2024, in Drexel Hill, Pa. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

Mike Huckabee, Trump’s pick for Israel ambassador, tries to distance from past Palestinian rhetoric

 
Rep. Chuck Edwards talks during a town hall in Asheville, N.C., March 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Makiya Seminera, File)

Military veterans are becoming the face of Trump’s government cuts and Democrats’ resistance

 
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer gives a television interview at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Schumer says he won’t step down as Senate Democratic leader despite government funding uproar

 
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., center, is joined by House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, D-Mass., left, and House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., right, during a news conference at the Capitol, Friday, March 14, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Democrats clashed over their shutdown strategy. But the party’s identity crisis runs far deeper

 
Rep. Chuck Edwards talks during a town hall in Asheville, N.C. on Thursday, March 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Makiya Seminera)

Voters flood town halls with fears of Social Security cuts, putting heat on GOP over Musk and DOGE

 
District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser speaks at a news conference to address the impact of the proposed continuing resolution, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, March 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Senate unanimously approves fix to prevent $1B cuts for District of Columbia, sending bill to House

 
The Capitol in Washington, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Republican legislation seeks to ban Chinese nationals from studying in the US

 
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., listens as President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (Win McNamee/Pool Photo via AP)

Democratic Party fractures in government shutdown fight, with anger running high

 
A homeless woman smokes fentanyl in a park June 28, 2024, in downtown Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Senate passes bill that would increase penalties for fentanyl traffickers

 
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., looks at his watch before a television interview as the Senate works to avert a partial government shutdown ahead of the midnight deadline, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Senate approves funding bill hours before shutdown deadline, sending to Trump for signature

 
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., left, walks with Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., as Senate Democrats gather behind closed doors to mount a last-ditch protest over a Republican-led spending bill that already passed the House, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 13, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schumer to advance GOP funding bill, unwilling to risk government shutdown as deadline nears

 
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., meets with reporters as House Republicans push ahead with a go-it-alone strategy on an interim GOP spending bill that would keep federal agencies funded through Sept. 30, at the Capitol, in Washington, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

‘In DOGE we trust': House GOP governs by embracing Trump’s effort to cut government

 
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., checks his phone as he arrives to meet with reporters as Republicans push ahead with a go-it-alone strategy on an interim spending bill that would keep federal agencies funded through Sept. 30, at the Capitol, in Washington, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House passes bill to fund federal agencies through September, though prospects unclear in Senate

 
Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., speaks to Stephen Feinberg, President Donald Trump's choice to be deputy secretary of defense, as he appears before the Senate Armed Services Committee for his confirmation hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Trump is forcing a generational shift in GOP foreign policy. Here’s how Republicans are responding

 
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., walks through the Capitol, Monday, March 3, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

House Republicans unveil bill to avoid shutdown and they’re daring Democrats to oppose it

 
Protesters gather outside Rep. Bill Huizenga's office in Holland, Mich., on Friday, March 7, 2025, to protest the Republican not holding an in-person town hall. (AP Photo/Joey Cappelletti)

Republican lawmakers hold telephone town halls as protesters demand more

 
U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen speaks as she participates in a panel discussion during the Munich Security Conference at the Bayerischer Hof Hotel in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

New Senate bill seeks to tackle the flow of fentanyl into the US from China and Mexico

 
Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, is removed from the chamber as President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (Win McNamee/Pool Photo via AP)

The House censures Democratic Rep. Al Green for disrupting Trump’s joint address to Congress

 
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