Bridget A. Brink, who stepped down as ambassador to Ukraine in April out of objections to President Trump’s pro-Russian approach to the war, is now speaking out and running for office at home.
Bridget A. Brink while serving as ambassador to Ukraine in 2023. “I realized that I couldn’t both serve my country the way I knew I had to do it to be consistent with the policy and stand by my own principles,” she said of her resignation in protest of the Trump administration’s policy toward the war.
In response to estimates showing that the policy bill would yield limited growth, administration officials have sought to discredit experts while presenting a more optimistic view of the president’s economic agenda.
A bipartisan pair in the House and a Democrat in the Senate have moved to force votes in the coming days on requiring congressional approval before U.S. troops could take offensive action against Iran.
The House introduced a resolution on Tuesday that would require congressional approval before U.S. troops could engage in offensive attacks against Iran.
A Capitol security official briefed senators on enhanced security precautions, and lawmakers in both parties said more funding was needed to protect themselves.
Some Republican senators are voicing concern over the House-passed bill that would rescind $9 billion that Congress already approved, including money for NPR and PBS stations in their states.
Senator Alex Padilla, Democrat of California, was forcibly removed from an event with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, forced to the floor and handcuffed.
Senator Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey, last week. He said on the Senate floor on Thursday that Senator Alex Padilla’s treatment was “a crossroads for this body.”
Republicans whose constituents rely on nutritional assistance worry that cuts to those programs approved by the House will saddle their states with huge costs and harm low-income children.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that the richer Americans were, the more they would benefit from the measure carrying President Trump’s agenda. And the poorest would lose out altogether.
The Congressional Budget Office found that under the Republican domestic policy bill that passed the House the bottom 10 percent of Americans would overall lose government benefits worth an average of $1,559 each year over the next 10 years.
Amid unrest in California, Republicans on the House Oversight Committee pressed the governors of three blue states on their immigration policies in an acrimonious eight-hour hearing that often veered off course.
G.O.P. senators are considering whether to further curb the president’s favorite tax cuts as they rewrite key portions of the sprawling domestic agenda bill passed by the House.
Colleagues and friends say Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District of Columbia’s 87-year-old nonvoting delegate and a veteran of fights over home rule, is struggling to do her job.
The House passed bills imposing voting and policing policies on the District of Columbia, but the G.O.P. has refused to consider a measure to restore hundreds of millions of dollars of its funding.
A youth movement in Iowa is aiming to appeal to voters who have abandoned Democrats in the Trump era. There are pitfalls for people who grew up sharing everything online.
“I don’t care if they push around old Reddit posts from college,” said Zach Wahls, a 33-year-old Iowa state senator who is planning a Senate campaign next year.
A rare mid-decade redistricting push has unnerved some Texas Republicans, who worry a drive to harm Democrats could end up endangering G.O.P. incumbents in 2026.
There’s an undercurrent of Democratic support for elements of President Trump’s tax agenda, a dynamic that Republicans are trying to exploit as they make the case for enactment of their sprawling domestic legislation.
Senator Jacky Rosen, Democrat of Nevada, made a successful, if largely symbolic, bid to have the Senate unanimously approve a version of President Trump’s “no tax on tips” proposal.
A bill introduced Friday would classify forecasters and other staff as critical public safety roles. It comes after the Weather Service lost nearly 600 people to DOGE cuts.
The domestic policy bill passed by the House raises the maximum child tax credit to $2,500. But about a third of children would not receive the full credit because their parents have low wages or lack jobs.
Republicans in the chamber are bending over backward to appease the world’s richest man, who is furious at them for voting for a bill to deliver President Trump’s domestic policy agenda.
Elon Musk’s opposition to the bill has put House Republicans in the awkward position of straining to satisfy two authority figures who are now at odds.
The sprawling legislation carrying President Trump’s domestic agenda squeaked through the House with one vote to spare, but some Republicans now say they didn’t realize what they voted for.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene at a town hall meeting in April. She is one of several lawmakers who learned after voting for the president’s policy bill that it contained measures they oppose.
The president is pressing Republicans in the Senate to unite quickly behind sprawling legislation that carries his domestic agenda, but the measure’s opponents have a powerful new ally: Elon Musk.
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky is part of a group of Republican senators agitating for deeper spending cuts in a bill carrying President Trump’s domestic agenda, noting that it is projected to balloon federal deficits.
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