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Speaker Mike Johnson’s handling of an end-of-year spending deal is throwing his grasp on the gavel into uncertain territory ahead of a critical Jan. 3 Speaker vote, as some GOP…

Speaker Mike Johnson and Donald Trump’s team are circling a new federal funding stopgap plan that includes disaster aid, pushing off a debt limit fight for two years and a…

President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has landed at the Energy Department’s headquarters. Members of the Trump transition arrived at the Energy Department on Tuesday to meet for the first time…

Just two days before a planned Christmas break, Speaker Mike Johnson is facing down the threat of a government shutdown and demands from an incoming president that he cannot easily…

WASHINGTON (NewsNation) — Some Democrats are blasting billionaire Elon Musk and his influence on the incoming administration after President-elect Donald Trump derailed a bipartisan congressional spending deal, seemingly at Musk’s…

A Georgia appeals court on Thursday booted Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D)’s office from the 2020 election interference case against President-elect Trump over her relationship with a top…

Mike Johnson’s in a terrible spot, with a government shutdown deadline looming in less than 48 hours and no obvious way out. Conservatives are furious, rank-and-file members are exasperated, and…

🗓️ What we’re watching President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance injected themselves further into an escalating fight over federal spending, insisting that Congress raise the nation’s debt ceiling…

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is floating the ultimate Washington outsider to be speaker: Elon Musk. “The Speaker of the House need not be a member of Congress,” Paul wrote in…

McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — A spending bill that Congress is debating to continue funding the federal government past Friday also contains funding relief for farmers on the South Texas…

Sen. Joni Ernst is rolling out her next step on Thursday to overhaul the federal workforce as she embraces President-elect Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency. The bill from Ernst,…

(NewsNation) — The man who allegedly attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump in September is now wanted for attempted felony murder, the Florida Attorney General’s Office announced Wednesday. Police…

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have grand ambitions for their supercharged government consultancy. The so-called Department of Government Efficiency is going to solve the U.S.’s debt problem. It’s going to…

President-elect Donald Trump’s landing team for the Labor Department includes a pair of high-ranking agency officials from his first term and a former chair of the federal agency that adjudicates…

(NewsNation) — Bill O’Reilly believes Kash Patel, whom Trump has tapped to lead the FBI, is “salivating” for a chance to investigate former Rep. Liz Cheney. Republicans released a report Tuesday…