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The leading Democrats in the House are ramping up the pressure on Senate Democrats to oppose the GOP’s spending bill, warning that the proposal would slash crucial public services to vulnerable populations across the country. Huddled at their annual strategy retreat in Leesburg, Va., the leaders implored their Senate counterparts to use their filibuster power [...]

House Democratic leaders — including, from left, Ted Lieu, Pete Aguilar, Katherine M. Clark, Hakeem Jeffries and Suzan DelBene — hold a news conference at the Lansdowne Resort in Leesburg, Va., on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., conducts a news conference in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

The House GOP's campaign committee is taking aim at congressional Democrats for voting against a measure to fund the federal government through Sept. 30.

Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) defied House Democratic leadership on Tuesday when he voted for the GOP’s bill to avert a government shutdown — the only one in the caucus to support the stopgap. Golden’s “yes” vote, to be sure, was not decisive, since Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) — with help from President Trump — rallied enough [...]

House Democratic leadership privately confronted the roughly dozen progressive members of their caucus for apparently disregarding requests for decorum during President Donald Trump’s terrible speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday.According to Axios, the three most senior House Democratic leaders—Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar, Minority Whip Katherine Clark, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries—gathered the group of disruptors on Thursday morning. The trio was reportedly “very unhappy” with the cadre of leftist lawmakers who (gasp!) coordinated outfits or refused to clap during Trump’s nearly two-hour speech. Reps. Jasmine Crockett of Texas, Maxine Dexter of Oregon, Maxwell Frost of Florida, and Melanie Stansbury of New Mexico, were among the progressive lawmakers called into the “come to Jesus meeting.”A source familiar with the gathering stressed that the lawmakers were “not getting yelled at” nor were they “being talked to like they are children.” Instead, House Democratic leadership said they wanted the affected legislators to “understand why their strategy is a bad idea.”Rep. Nydia Velazquez of New York and fellow Democrats protest President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress on March 4, 2025.“It doesn’t surprise me leadership is very upset. They gave specific instructions not to do that,” another source said, seemingly referring to a “dear colleague” letter that Jeffries sent to the caucus before Trump’s address. In the letter, Jeffries urged his colleagues to have a “strong, determined, and dignified Democratic presence in the chamber.” Democrats were also privately told not to use props during the president’s speech.But some rank-and-file Democrats ignored both requests. Stansbury, for instance, held a sign reading, “This is NOT normal,” which was yanked out of her hands by GOP Rep. Lance Gooden of Texas. And Frost wore a shirt donning the phrase, “No Kings Live Here,” an apparent reference to Trump’s description of himself as a “king” in a recent post on Truth Social.Democrats don’t seem to know how they plan to protest Trump—assuming they even want to at all. Those who vote in favor of the president’s agenda, even if they later admit that they screwed up, face few consequences. Meanwhile, silent protesters are admonished behind closed doors while those who object to Trump’s lies more blatantly—such as Rep. Al Green of Texas—get censured by the House, including by 10 fellow Democrats.Perhaps Democratic leadership wanted all protests to occur outside of the chamber. But considering that the bulk of their caucus has struggled to find an effective way to call out Trump, it’s shameful to pull aside the few members who have directly pushed back against the Trump administration.Surprising no one, other “Democrats”—like Rep. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania—have also admonished dissenters. On the day of Trump’s speech, Fetterman called the protests “a sad cavalcade of self owns and unhinged petulance” in a post on X.Notably, Democrats’ takedown of their own caucus’ protesting methods isn’t all that different from what Trump himself said shortly after Green was kicked out of the chamber. “This is my fifth such speech to Congress,” he said, “and once again, I look at the Democrats in front of me, and I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say to make them happy or to make them stand or smile or applaud.”Campaign Action

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and his leadership deputies said Friday they will not lend their support to the stopgap spending bill being proposed by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.).Why it matters: Democrats are holding out for language that will restrict President Trump and DOGE from being able to slash government programs already authorized and funded by Congress.House Democrats from across the party's ideological spectrum have argued the onus of averting a government shutdown falls squarely on Republicans, who control Congress and the White House.Johnson will likely need Democratic votes to pass any government funding measure. Even if he manages to pass a GOP-only bill, Democrats can block it in the Senate.What they're saying: With a week until the March 14 government shutdown deadline, Jeffries, House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) and Democratic caucus chair Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) wrote that the continuing resolution Republicans are expected to put forth is "not acceptable.""Republicans have decided to introduce a partisan continuing resolution that threatens to cut funding for healthcare, nutritional assistance and veterans benefits through the end of the current fiscal year," they said.The Democratic leaders said they would "enthusiastically support a bill that protects Social Security, Medicare, veterans health and Medicaid," but that "Medicaid is our redline."Between the lines: Democrats have been fighting for language that constricts DOGE's ability to get around the funding guidelines passed by Congress.Republicans so far have declined to accede to that as they largely cheer on DOGE's cuts, and as such funding talks have stalled.That leaves the federal government hurtling towards a shutdown.The other side: "House Democrats admitted they wanted a government shutdown, and now they're following through," said National Republican Congressional Committee spokesperson Mike Marinella."They're deliberately making our country less safe and less prosperous just to score political points. House Democrats will always put politics over people."

House Democratic leaders warned Friday that they won’t back a long-term extension of current funding levels, which GOP leaders are teeing up for a vote next week. The top Democrats — Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.), Whip Katherine Clark (Mass.) and Caucus Chairman Pete Aguilar (Calif.) — said the Republicans’ bill is a “partisan” effort [...]

House and Senate Democrats silently protested President Donald Trump during his first speech to Congress of his second term — refusing to applaud, holding up signs calling him “king” and “liar,” and, for some, walking out of the address altogether.Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, didn’t get the memo. After Trump told lawmakers he had won a mandate, the progressive rabble-rouser rose, began waving his cane at Trump and yelled out repeatedly: “You have no mandate!”“Sit down!” retorted Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo. And two Trump loyalists, Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Nancy Mace, R-S.C., stood up, pointed at and jeered the Democrat. The sergeant at arms promptly removed Green from the chamber — a first during modern-day presidential addresses to Congress. It was not what Democratic leaders had wanted. They had warned their rank-and-file members before the joint address not to bring props and to stay on message — the focus should stay on the federal workers fired by Trump and his billionaire adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, and the everyday Americans harmed by their policies and cuts.But it’s hard to keep every congressional Democrat in line. From the moment Trump walked onto the House floor, it was clear this would not be the usual speech to Congress. New Mexico Rep. Melanie Stansbury, the top Democrat on the new DOGE subcommittee, silently held a sign behind Trump reading: “This is NOT normal.”After greeting Trump, Rep. Lance Gooden, R-Texas, then reached across the aisle, ripped the sign away from Stansbury, then tossed it in the air — all on live TV.Senate Democrats, meanwhile, stood when Trump walked but did not applaud.Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., brought an erasable white board in the chamber and scribbled various messages to Trump throughout the night: “NO KING”;“THAT’S A LIE”; and “STOP LYING,” for instance.More than 20 other House Democrats also protested silently, holding up black and white signs during Trump’s speech that said, “Save Medicaid,” “Lies” and “Musk Steals, ”surely seen by the tech billionaire who was seated in the gallery above the chamber.Since arriving in Washington in January, Musk has been trying to upend the federal government, gutting agencies and carrying out mass firings of workers. Upon entering the chamber Tuesday, the world’s richest man broke rules of the House as he began taking video of the floor with his smartphone. Someone told him to stop recording. Minutes later, Musk violated a second House rule when he began drinking bottled water, as food and drinks are prohibited in the chamber.Still, Musk got two shout-outs from Trump — and two standing ovations from Republicans who have rooted him on as he’s worked to slash federal spending by any means necessary.And while Democrats were seething throughout Trump’s speech, Republicans — now running all of Washington — seemed in jubilant mood, cheering many of his lines and laughing as the president cracked jokes and mocked Democrats.The split reactions to Trump’s address underscored how one of the nation’s most polarizing political figures has become even more divisive upon his return to the White House. It was the first time he had set foot in the House since his supporters, four years ago, had stormed the Capitol and tried to take control of that hallowed chamber on Jan. 6 to keep him in power after his election defeat.Some of the silent protests were colorful. In 2019, Trump faced a sea of suffragette white as Democratic women celebrated the record number of women elected to Congress — a milestone Trump acknowledged during his speech. But on Tuesday, Democratic women, including Trump’s longtime foe, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, donned pink, what they called a “color of protest,” “women’s power, and persistence.”“We’re sending a message to Donald Trump that we’re not going to let him run over our women’s access to health care, to the care that is necessary for our families,” said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., sporting a pink blazer and pants. “As a breast cancer survivor, I want him to understand that not making sure that IVF is covered by insurance ... is unacceptable.”In addition to the smattering of pink, Congressional Black Caucus members wore black, while others including Reps. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa., wore blue and yellow, in solidarity with Ukraine after Trump’s blow up with that country’s president. The trio of House Democratic leaders — Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Minority Whip Katherine Clark and Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar — sat quietly the entire speech stone-faced, with their hands in their laps.Others could not sit still. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., walked out in the middle of Trump’s address, as did Stansbury, Reps. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, and Lateefa Simon, D-Calif.“I could not in good conscience sit through this speech and give an audience to someone who operates with lawless disregard for Congress and the people of this nation,” Pressley said in a statement after walking off the floor. “Donald Trump has used his bully pulpit to spread lies, demonize vulnerable communities, and double down on the hurt, hate, and harm in his first 43 days in office.”This story first appeared on NBCNews.com. More from NBC News:Judge blocks Trump order threatening funding for institutions that provide gender-affirming care for youthsTrump adviser Alina Habba says veterans fired by DOGE are perhaps ‘not fit to have a job at this moment’Trump could scale back Canada, Mexico tariffs Wednesday, Lutnick says

Democratic lawmakers are discussing a litany of options to protest at President Trump's speech to Congress on Tuesday, including through outright disruption, a half dozen House Democrats told Axios.Why it matters: Some of these tactics go beyond their leaders' recommendation that members bring guests hurt by Trump and DOGE. This sets up a potential clash between party traditionalists and its more combative anti-Trump wing."The part that we all agree on is that this is not business as usual and we would like to find a way — productively — to express our outrage," one House Democrat told Axios.There is widespread disagreement among Democrats, both inside and outside of Congress, over what would be the most appropriate and effective form of demonstration.What we're hearing: Some members have told colleagues they may walk out of the chamber when Trump says specific lines they find objectionable, lawmakers told Axios.Criticism of transgender kids was brought up as a line in the sand that could trigger members to storm out, according to a House Democrat.A wide array of props — including noisemakers — has also been floated:Signs with anti-Trump or anti-DOGE messages — just as Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) held up a sign during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech last year that said "war criminal."Eggs or empty egg cartons to highlight how inflation is driving up the price of eggs.Pocket constitutions to make the case that Trump has been violating the Constitution by shutting down congressionally authorized agencies.Hand clappers, red cards and various other props have also been discussed, multiple sources said.The intrigue: In closed-door meetings and on the House floor Monday night, lawmakers were specifically discouraged from using props, two House Democrats told Axios.These tactics are also a source of considerable internal debate among House Democratic rank-and-file — in large part based on what they've heard back in their districts."There are definitely a lot of constituents that really want Democrats to disrupt and there are ... constituents who feel like that just plays into his hands," one House Democrat told Axios.Zoom out: Disruptions during joint session speeches used to provoke outrage, but have become increasingly common in recent years.Rep. Joe Wilson's (R-S.C.) outburst at former President Obama — ''you lie," he shouted — was a shocking event in 2009. Former President Biden was persistently heckled by Republicans during multiple State of the Union addresses.Then there was the aforementioned disruption of Netanyahu's speech by Tlaib.Zoom in: Some groups of Democrats plan to mount more traditional protests through the use of color coordination in their wardrobe choices.Pink: The Democratic Women's Caucus wants all their members to wear pink in a unified display of defiance to a president many of them despise.Black: Female members of the Congressional Black Caucus have separately discussed donning black to more accurately capture the party's somber mood.Blue and yellow: Ukraine Caucus co-chair Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) will distribute ties and scarves with the colors of Ukraine's flag to signal support for President Volodymyr Zelensky.Others plan to sit stone-faced and refuse to clap during the entire speech, another time-honored tactic for opposition party members to silently protest the president.What they're saying: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) wrote in a letter to House Democrats that he and other leaders plan to attend the speech to "make clear to the nation that there is a strong opposition party ready, willing and able to serve as a check and balance."Jeffries also said leadership understands if some members skip the speech — as several have said they plan to do — but urged a "strong, determined and dignified Democratic presence in the chamber."House Democratic caucus chair Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) told Axios leadership is telling members to "keep the focus on the health and safety and the economic wellbeing of our constituents."The bottom line: "Whether we are wearing pink, or black, or yellow and blue, we are all conveying our displeasure with this administration," said. Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-V.I.)."What's more important is our work together and the pressure for three Republicans to do the right thing for everyone," she said.

House Democrats howling over the flood of unilateral actions streaming from the White House are voicing confidence that the courts will provide a check on potential abuses of power. They’re less certain, however, about how President Trump will respond. Some Democrats say they trust the president to heed the courts even when judges rule against [...]

House Democrats are vowing to play hardball in the partisan battle over government spending, driving to extract steep concessions from Republicans who will need bipartisan buy-in to prevent a shutdown next month. Democratic leaders are warning that they won’t support a funding package that includes steep cuts to their favored programs. Others would go a [...]

Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., said that House Democrats would vote against a government funding bill if it included cuts to the Department of Education. Aguilar claimed Republicans "don't care about our children reaching their full potential."

House Democratic Caucus Chair Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.), Vice Chair Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), and Reps. Jahana Hayes (D-Conn.) and Kristen McDonald Rivet (D-Mich.) hold a post-meeting press conference at 10:45 a.m. ET on Feb. 11.

President Donald Trump greets Jordan's King Abdullah II as he arrives at the White House on Tuesday. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

House Democrats introduce Taxpayer Data Protection Act to prevent unauthorized access to personal taxpayer information.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Monday that Democrats will use the coming battle over government funding as a vehicle to block President Trump’s early efforts to gut federal programs — a warning that raises the chances of a shutdown in the middle of next month. In a letter to House Democrats, Jeffries hammered the [...]

WASHINGTON — Rep. Luz Rivas had barely begun her day in Washington when her cellphone rang at 7 a.m. The Hurst fire had erupted around 10:30 the night before and — fueled by high winds and dangerously dry conditions — ballooned to more than 500 acres in her northern Los Angeles County district by morning.

Democrats have either dismissed backlash to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries' remarks or stayed silent, while the White House is requesting an apology.

The bill, which would increase the detentions of foreign national criminals, passed both houses of Congress with bipartisan support.

The Republican-led House voted Wednesday to give final passage to the Laken Riley Act, a strict immigration detention measure named for a 22-year-old Georgia nursing school student who was murdered last year by an undocumented immigrant.

House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.), Vice Chair Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), and Reps. Janelle Sojourner Bynum (D-Ore.) and Kelly Morrison (D-Minn.) hold a post-meeting press conference at 11 a.m. ET on Jan. 22.

The pardons, which cover all Jan. 6 defendants, also include a former Orange County police chief.

The pardon extended to all members of the House committee who investigated the 2021 attack on the Capitol.

The House is barreling towards a contentious debate over disaster relief for California as many — but not all — Republicans call for conditions to be placed on the assistance, an idea Democrats are soundly rejecting. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Monday threw his support behind placing stipulations on aid designed to help California recover from [...]

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), who headed Congress’s special investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, said Tuesday that he has been in talks with the White House about presidential pardons. His comments confirmed a report, published hours earlier by Punchbowl News, that Thompson had at least one conversation in December with [...]

CA Democrats are urging USDOT to approve more than $500 million in transportation grant money to fund the state's high-speed rail projects before DOGE potentially ends the "boondoggle."

Democrats refused to accommodate the president-elect's sudden demands on the debt limit and the quick fix Republican leaders cobbled together.

The House rejected President-elect Donald Trump's new plan Thursday to fund federal operations and suspend the debt ceiling a day before a government shutdown, as Democrats refused to accommodate his sudden demands and the quick fix cobbled together by Republican leaders.In a hastily convened evening vote punctuated by angry outbursts over the self-made crisis, the lawmakers failed to reach the two-thirds threshold needed for passage — but House Speaker Mike Johnson appeared determined to try again before Friday's midnight deadline.“We're going to do the right thing here,” Johnson said ahead of the vote. But he didn't even get a majority, with the bill failing 174-235.The outcome proved a massive setback for Trump and his billionaire ally, Elon Musk, who rampaged against Johnson's bipartisan compromise, which Republicans and Democrats had reached earlier to prevent a Christmastime government shutdown.It provides an preview of the turbulence ahead when Trump returns to the White House with Republican control of the House and Senate. During his first term, Trump led Republicans into the longest government shutdown in history during the 2018 Christmas season, and interrupted the holidays in 2020 by tanking a bipartisan COVID-relief bill and forcing a do-over.Hours earlier, Trump announced “SUCCESS in Washington!” in coming up with the new package which would keep government running for three more months, add $100.4 billion in disaster assistance including for hurricane-hit states, and allow more borrowing through Jan. 30, 2027."Speaker Mike Johnson and the House have come to a very good Deal,” Trump posted.But Republicans, who had spent 24 hours largely negotiating with themselves to come up with the new plan, ran into a wall of resistance from Democrats, who were were in no hurry to appease demands from Trump — or his billionaire ally Musk.House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Democrats were sticking with the original deal with Johnson and called the new one “laughable.”x.@RepJeffries: "The Musk-Johnson proposal is not serious. It's laughable. Extreme MAGA Republicans are driving us to a government shutdown." pic.twitter.com/PoHVNeInsv— CSPAN (@cspan) December 19, 2024“It's not a serious proposal,” Jeffries said as he walked to Democrats' own closed-door caucus meeting. Inside, Democrats were chanting, “Hell, no!”All day, Johnson had been fighting to figure out how to meet Trump's sudden demands — and keep his own job — while federal offices are being told to prepare to shutter operations.The new proposal whittled the 1,500-page bill to 116 pages and drops a number of add-ons — notably the first pay raise for lawmakers in more than a decade, which could have allowed as much as a 3.8% bump. That drew particular scorn as Musk turned his social media army against the bill.Trump said early Thursday that Johnson will “easily remain speaker” for the next Congress if he “acts decisively and tough” in coming up with a new plan to also raise the debt limit, a stunning request just before the Christmas holidays that has put the beleaguered speaker in a bind.And if not, the president-elect warned of trouble ahead for Johnson and Republicans in Congress.“Anybody that supports a bill that doesn’t take care of the Democrat quicksand known as the debt ceiling should be primaried and disposed of as quickly as possible,” Trump told Fox News Digital.The tumultuous turn of events, coming as lawmakers were preparing to head home for the holidays, sparks a familiar reminder of what it's like in Trump-run Washington.For Johnson, who faces his own problems ahead of a Jan. 3 House vote to remain speaker, Trump's demands left him severely weakened, forced to abandon his word with Democrats and work into the night to broker the new approach.Trump’s allies even floated the far-fetched idea of giving billionaire Musk the speaker’s gavel, since the speaker is not required to be a member of the Congress. Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., posted she was “open” to the idea.Democrats were beside themselves, seeing this as a fitting coda after one of the most unproductive congressional sessions in modern times.“Here we are once again in chaos,” said House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark, who detailed the harm a government shutdown would cause Americans. “And what for? Because Elon Musk, an unelected man, said, ‘We’re not doing this deal, and Donald Trump followed along.’”The debate in the House chamber grew heated as lawmakers blamed each other for the mess.House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Rep. Pete Aguilar, the caucus chair, speak at a news conference on Dec. 19 after Trump abruptly rejected a bipartisan plan to prevent a government shutdown.At one point, Rep. Marc Molinaro, who was presiding over the debate, slammed the speaker’s gavel with such force that it broke.The stakes couldn't be higher. Trump was publicly turning on those who opposed him.One hardline Republican, Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, drew Trump’s ire for refusing to along with the plan and telling colleagues they had no self-respect for piling onto the nation’s debt.“It’s shameful!” Roy thundered, standing on the Democratic side of the aisle and pointing at his fellow Republicans.The slimmed-down package does include federal funds to rebuild Baltimore’s collapsed Key Bridge, but dropped a separate land transfer that could have paved the way for a new Washington Commanders football stadium.But it abandons a long list of other bipartisan bills that had support as lawmakers in both parties try to wrap work for the year. It extends government funds through March 14.Adding an increase in the debt ceiling to what had been a bipartisan package is a show-stopper for Republicans who routinely vote against more borrowing, and Democrats who weren't about to give into Trump's demands without a price.While Democrats have floated their own ideas in the past for lifting or even doing away with the debt limit caps that have created some of the toughest debates in Congress — Sen. Elizabeth Warren had suggested as much — they appear to be in no bargaining mood to save Johnson from Trump — even before the president-elect is sworn into office.The current debt limit expires Jan. 1, 2025, and threatens to bog down the start of the new administration with months of negotiations to raise it. Trump wants the problem off the table before he joins the White House.As senior Republicans broke from a Thursday morning meeting in the House speaker’s office there was no resolution in sight — a preview of what’s to come when Republicans control Congress and Trump is in the White House in the new year.Rep. Steve Womack, an Arkansas Republican and senior appropriator, said the collapse of a bipartisan stopgap funding deal this week would “probably be a good trailer right now for the 119th Congress.”Federal funding is scheduled to expire at midnight Friday as a current temporary government funding bill runs out.The bipartisan compromise brokered between Johnson and the Democrats outraged conservatives for its spending and extras.Musk, in his new foray into politics, led the charge. The wealthiest man in the world used his social media platform X to amplify the unrest, and GOP lawmakers were besieged with phone calls to their offices telling them to oppose the plan.Trump told Johnson to start over — with the new demand on the debt limit, something that generally takes months to negotiate and that his own party generally opposes.The White House’s Office of Management and Budget had provided initial communication to agencies about possible shutdown planning last week, according to an official at the agency.Campaign Action

President-elect Donald Trump claimed "success" Thursday in coming up with a new plan to fund the government and suspend the debt ceiling a day before a government shutdown, urging Congress to swiftly pass it.

The youth movement among House Democrats? Don't believe the hype. Even as a few Democratic committee heads are being pushed aside for younger replacements, the party is elevating some of its most senior members to lead virtually every major committee in the next Congress. On Wednesday, the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee confirmed the ranking [...]

Multiple media outlets reported earlier this month that the White House was considering giving pardons to Trump's potential targets ahead of the start of his second term.

The head of the House Democratic Caucus is sending an early message to his troops heading into the 119th Congress: Attendance will be crucial given the razor-tight margins in the lower chamber. “It’s important for every member to come to work and to do their job. That's what we're telling our caucus,” Rep. Pete Aguilar [...]

Calls to limit presidential pardon powers have fallen on party lines in the House of Representatives.

Rep. Pete Aguilar says President Biden went back on his word when he pardoned his son, Hunter Biden.

House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) and Vice Chair Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) hold a post-meeting press conference at 10:45 a.m. ET on Dec. 4.

Rep. John Duarte, R-Calif., lost his reelection bid in the final 2024 House race to be decided.

We can provide tax relief to hostages without assaulting civil liberties. It's not that complicated.

After another election cycle that brought few bright spots for Nebraska Democrats, some former party officials have called on the state party's leader, Jane Kleeb, to resign.

Rep. Mike Johnson has won the Republican nomination to remain as House speaker, on track to keep the gavel after a morning endorsement from President-elect Donald Trump ahead of a full House vote in the new year. While Johnson has...

The final doors are being knocked, ads are blaring and candidates are making a last pitch to voters. Even with the high-energy final push, the races for control of Congress are at a stalemate, essentially a toss-up for the House and fight to the finish for the Senate.

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are pointing fingers over whether heated political rhetoric is contributing to violence in the wake of Sunday’s apparent assassination attempt on former President Trump. It's the second time the fierce debate has ignited in as many months, and lawmakers are getting more personal. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) — who [...]

The vote was 220-202, with 14 Republicans and all but three Democrats opposing the bill.

The House speaker’s spending plan lost critical support despite his inclusion of “election integrity” measures.

Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., spoke at the DNC to highlight how Vice President Harris' efforts on immigration and border security, and said she understood the values of "family, faith and hard work."

Democratic National Convention organizers have released the schedule for the event’s third day

Democrats have coalesced around tougher messaging around border security amid record levels of migrant crossings.