Top Senate Republican joins Murray to protest Trump bid to withhold spending
Senator Susan Collins of Maine, the chairwoman of the Appropriations Committee, joined top Democrats in insisting that the president does not have the power to...
Schumer will clear the way for GOP spending bill, breaking with his party
Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York broke with his party Thursday and lined up enough Democrats to advance a Republican-written bill to keep federal funding...
How Biden’s inner circle protected a faltering president VIEW
As Donald Trump heads back to the White House, Democrats debate what might have been had the president bowed out in time to let a...
Confirmation hearings to open in a test of Trump’s hold on Senate GOP
Hearings scheduled this week for more than a dozen of the president-elect's cabinet choices will provide an early test of his hold over Senate Republicans.
Spending deal debacle threatens Johnson’s tenuous hold on his job | News analysis
A Republican backlash to the speaker’s plan to temporarily fund the government has sparked new talk of ousting him, and highlighted the challenges he will...
Behind Schumer’s silence on Trump’s picks, a bid to spotlight GOP divides | News analysis VIEW
The Senate majority leader is staying out of Republican turmoil over the more contentious picks for strategic reasons.