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A White House official said Friday that the White House’s roughly $5 billion foreign aid pocket rescission package, which will not require congressional approval, is on solid legal ground.

Veteran Hollywood talent manager Larry Thompson announced his candidacy for U.S. Congress on Tuesday as a Republican.

Senate Republican Conference Chair Tom Cotton (R-AK) said Congress should back President Donald Trump’s crackdown on crime in Washington, DC, which is currently on a running clock if the House and Senate do not pass a joint resolution.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer dug his heels in when asked if Democrats would grant a request from Trump to keep fighting D.C. crime.

The U.S. House Appropriations Committee expressed concerns about reports of drug abuse “at the highest levels” of the government of Colombia.

Activists representing communities facing ethnic cleansing and genocide under the Chinese Communist Party urged Congress during an event on Monday not just to oppose China’s human rights abuses, but identify their communities as sovereign nations colonized under an imperial Chinese state.

Recent polling found Democrat leadership continues struggling to gain approval as Americans lean away from the party.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) stated that President Donald Trump didn’t need congressional approval to carry out the strikes on Iran, but would need it for a “longer incursion” and cited

Leading members of Congress and progressive activists erupted on social media following President Donald Trump’s announcement that the United States had launched airstrikes against Iran.

Representative Bennie Thompson (D-MS) said Friday on MSNBC’s “The Weeknight” that House members were considering suing the Department of Homeland Security for blocking access to ICE detention centers.

Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) issued a pointed demand during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, calling on President Joe Biden to immediately release all documents tied to his questionable use of the autopen for issuing pardons, stays, and clemencies or face a congressional subpoena.

A $9.4 billion spending cuts bill is reported to arrive Tuesday on Capitol Hill as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) works to save the taxpayers money.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) is going hard after Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ), who was recently slapped with a federal assault charge for her part in a riot outside an immigration detention center.

Angel Families, whose loved ones have been killed by illegal aliens, are urging Congress to pass Trump’s reconciliation package.

An expert witness will tell Congress Tuesday that nearly a million and a half illegal aliens, who have been ordered deported, are “roaming free” in the United States due to a lack of detention space.

Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” passed a key obstacle in the U.S. House on Sunday, putting it within striking distance of a chamber vote.

Republican strategist Mark Bednar assured Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matt Boyle that Congress’s “big, beautiful” budget bill is still being worked on and not dead in the water as the establishment media has reported.

Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress, was fired Thursday by President Donald Trump and informed of her demise courtesy of a terse, two-sentence email.

The U.S. House passed a bill Thursday to codify President Donald Trump’s “Gulf of America” executive order, with only one Republican joining the Democrats in voting against the name change.

House Republicans touted President Donald Trump’s accomplishments at the U.S.-Mexico border and his success at getting dozens of countries to the trade negotiation table as his biggest wins during his first 100 days in office in exclusive interviews with Breitbart News this week.

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader John Thune told Breitbart News exclusively he is targeting a July 4 deadline to get the big budget reconciliation plan that would extend President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts– adding no tax on tips, Social Security income, or overtime wages–to the president’s desk for his signature.

Former New York Rep. George Santos has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison after pleading guilty to felony fraud charges in August 2024 and getting expelled from Congress in December 2023.

On Thursday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” Border Czar Tom Homan stated that Congress needs to make immigration law changes, specifically raising the threshold for asylum claims at the border, allowing for the detention of families for 40 days and allowing

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) responded to a question on whether Democrats should have reclaimed congressional power on tariffs when they were in the majority during the Biden administration by stating

Jimmy Patronis, the Trump-backed Republican candidate for Florida’s 1st Congressional District, has won former Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-FL) old seat over Democrat candidate Gay Valimont.

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Attorney General Pam Bondi urged Congress to stay in session to confirm all of President Donald Trump’s nominees. Host Laura Ingraham asked, [relevant exchange begins around 4:20] “[W]hat is your

During an interview aired on Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” DOGE’s Elon Musk said that the department tries to keep Congress “as informed as possible” on what it’s doing “But the law does say that money

Representative Don Bacon (R-NE) said Thursday on CNN’s “The Situation Room” that Congress should reclaim its sole authority over tariff policy from the executive branch.

Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) has introduced legislation to ban the display of foreign flags on U.S. Capitol grounds, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

President Donald Trump asserted that he was “saved by God to Make America Great Again” when he miraculously survived the assassination attempt at his Butler, Pennsylvania campaign rally during his Tuesday night joint address to Congress.

President Donald Trump touted his record-low number of illegal border crossings since reentering office, arguing that the U.S. needed a “new president,” not “new legislation,” to secure the country.

Democrats did not stand up when President Trump honored numerous American heroes during his address before Congress on Tuesday. 

Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) delivers the Democrat response to President Donald Trump’s address to Congress on Tuesday, March 4.

President Donald Trump made DJ Daniel, a 13-year-old boy diagnosed with brain cancer, an honorary Secret Service agent during his address before Congress on Tuesday night.

Hawaii Democrat Rep. Jill Tokuda donned a hot pink blazer with the U.S. Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment and Article 1, Section 9 written on it in the audience of President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress on Tuesday night.