WASHINGTON—House Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) sensed trouble. The GOP-led House was about to pass its final tranche of spending bills, including one providing money for border enforcement, a big ...

After a year spent largely relegated to the congressional sidelines, Democrats have begun approaching 2026 with something approximating optimism. The unpopularity of the Trump administration’s major ...

Unexpected vacancies have whittled the G.O.P.’s edge to just a couple of votes, leaving Speaker Mike Johnson with almost no margin for leading the chamber. By Ashley Wu and Annie Karni A surprise ...

On Thursday, neither party really had the majority in the House. Over the course of seven roll-call votes, the final tally showed five times that the exact same number of Republicans and Democrats had ...

A death and a series of unexpected departures have further narrowed Republicans’ already slim House majority, raising the stakes for November’s midterms and threatening the party’s control of Congress ...

The death of Rep. Doug LaMalfa, R-Calif., has shrunk the Republican majority in the House of Representatives to the minimum of 218 seats, presenting fresh challenges for Speaker Mike Johnson as the ...

Republican Representative Doug LaMalfa has died, further shrinking the narrow GOP House majority, according to party leaders. The California Republican’s death after 13 years in Congress was announced ...

When U.S. Congressman Doug LaMalfa died Tuesday morning, his absence closed further an already narrow gap between the U.S. House of Representatives’ Republican majority and its Democratic minority.

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President Donald Trump said he will soon have a "majority" of his nominees on the Federal Reserve board who will back his desire to slash interest rates. Trump's comment at a Cabinet meeting came ...

More than 40% of higher education students are older than 22, and almost 70% are holding down jobs while taking courses, finds a new report on the "new majority" college student. Nontraditional ...

Georgia Senate Republicans elected new majority leader and nominated a new president pro tempore. Sen. Jason Anavitarte (R-Dallas) was elected majority leader, and Sen. Larry Walker III (R-Perry) was ...