Both Democratic senators have voted not to confirm more of President Donald Trump's nominees more often after backing some ...

Russell Vought, Project 2025 mastermind and Trump’s nominee for the Office of Management and Budget, had quite a testy confirmation hearing.

What happens next remains unclear. Under President Donald Trump, budget chief Russell Vought has sought to assert more unilateral control over government spending than the White House usually has.

National security reporter focusing on the State Department and diplomacy. John Hudson is a reporter at The Washington Post covering the State Department and national security. He was part of the ...

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This week's Open Mic guest is Dr. Rob Johansson, Director of Economics and Policy Analysis for the American Sugar Alliance. Johansson says sugar growers are facing the same economic headwinds of ...

Documents reveal a visit to an out-of-state casino, lawmakers targeted by a hired lobbyist and help from a one-time aide to state Senate leader Phil Berger. Real-time updates and all local stories ...

Waltz, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Secretary of State Marco Rubio — all of whom were in the chat — have spent years criticizing top Democrats for improperly ...

President Donald Trump gave another justification for his tariff hikes, saying products need to be made in the USA in case the country goes to 'war.' 'We're going to have our drugs made in the ...

David Ignatius writes a twice-a-week foreign affairs column for The Washington Post. Ignatius has written 12 spy novels: “Phantom Orbit” (2024), “The Paladin” (2020), “The Quantum Spy ...

Vanessa Trump is Donald Trump Jr.’s ex-wife, and thus President Trump’s former daughter-in-law. It seems their relationship began last fall. On March 13, 2025, the Daily Mail reported that ...

These tables list the top donors to officeholders in 2022. Corporations themselves cannot donate to candidates at the federal level but federal candidates can get contributions from corporate PACs, ...