Senators want to hear a plan from Zelenskyy for victory in Ukraine after a closed-door briefing on the conflict. Senators emerged from a closed-door briefing with senior administration officials on the war in Ukraine anxious to hear from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy about how he plans to win the conflict, amid headwinds from Congress over providing…

House Republicans, trying to reverse their skid, now hope to vote on a stalled spending bill House Republican leaders are floating another plan to avert a government shutdown — this one with steeper spending cuts — during a conference meeting happening Wednesday afternoon. The new plan is similar to the deal negotiated between leaders of…

Centrist Dems and McCarthy’s allies are in secret talks to strike a deal The long-shot idea that Democrats could bail out the beleaguered Speaker Kevin McCarthy is suddenly getting real. Small groups of centrist Democrats are holding secret talks with several of McCarthy’s close GOP allies about a last-ditch deal to fund the government, according…

Barbara Lee and Chip Roy are leading a group of colleagues in urging the House to vote on the repeal of several decades-old war authorizations. A bipartisan crew is ramping up efforts to push for a vote on the repeal of war authorizations this month, as Congress seeks to claw back power for going to…

Attorney General Merrick Garland squared off with House Republicans over the Hunter Biden probe Attorney General Merrick Garland defended his handling of the years-long federal investigation of Hunter Biden on Wednesday as he faced a slew of questions from House Republicans. Garland is appearing before the House Judiciary Committee as part of a routine oversight…

McCarthy’s biggest conservative critics have something important in common Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s biggest headaches in the spending fight that’s consuming Washington have one thing in common: They’re coming from House Republicans who are openly eyeing the Capitol exits. As a shutdown fast approaches, McCarthy is in the fight of his political life against familiar conservative…