The Trump administration is urging lawmakers to fund the Department of Homeland Security after a gunman breached security at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner over the weekend. President Donald Trump on Monday took to social media to press Republicans to forge ahead with a party-line budget ma...

Speaker Mike Johnson said Monday that language in a Homeland Security funding bill the Senate passed unanimously near three weeks ago is "problematic" and will have to be changed to pass the House. The bill as written, Johnson said, would "orphan" funding for key immigration enforcement agencies in...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries signaled Monday that shielding consumers from rising electricity costs associated with the data center boom would be a priority on Democrats’ artificial intelligence agenda should they win back a majority. The New York Democrat said at a press conference that D...

More than 1,110 officers at the Transportation Security Administration have quit since the ongoing DHS shutdown began Feb. 14, a spokesperson told POLITICO on Monday. That’s a sizable jump compared with a week ago, when DHS on April 20 said that over 830 TSA personnel had departed the agency due to...

The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, following a briefing Monday from U.S. Secret Service Director Sean Curran, said he saw “no indication” of a security lapse at Saturday night's White House Correspondents’ Dinner. “It's a challenge to bring that many people, 2,500 or whatever the n...

King Charles will use his speech to Congress to help repair the “special relationship” between the U.S. and Britain that has been under strain over the Iran war. The king plans to focus on reconciliation and renewal in a speech Tuesday before the House and Senate that is expected to run about 20 mi...

Some House Republicans spent weeks warning against a drastic redraw of Florida’s congressional map. Now that it’s out — with Gov. Ron DeSantis targeting as many as four Democratic seats for a GOP takeover — they’re mostly keeping any criticism to themselves. “I think they did a pretty good job,” sa...

President Donald Trump's allies in Congress want to quickly authorize completion of the White House ballroom after the Saturday shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. But it’s not going to be simple. Trump’s ambitious ballroom project was put on hold earlier this year after a federal j...

Note: All times local National Capital Region, Canada 10:00 a.m. The Prime Minister will chair the Cabinet meeting. West BlockParliament Hill 3:45 p.m. The Prime Minister will meet with the Minister of Finance and National Revenue, François-Philippe Champagne, prior to tabling the 2026 Spring Econo...

Welcome to another grueling week in the House. A growing list of deadlines is bearing down on Speaker Mike Johnson as House Republicans try to push through an extension of an expiring government spy power Tuesday, a budget plan to end the Department of Homeland Security shutdown Wednesday and a far...

Saturday night’s White House Correspondents' Dinner attack is shaking up what was already going to be a grueling week for House GOP leaders. Here’s what we know. Speaker Mike Johnson, who was among those evacuated from the Washington Hilton, is moving ahead with votes on the three-year Section 702 ...

Republican Rep. Nick Langworthy is pushing Speaker Mike Johnson to call up the stalled Homeland Security funding bill passed by the Senate for an immediate House vote following the weekend shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner that targeted President Donald Trump and top federal offici...