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Early education advocates warn preschools are being forced to close their doors as a casualty of the partial government shutdown.

Policy

No quick fix for Head Start funding as programs start to close

‘Our programs really don’t have reserves that they can use for this,’ one advocate says about the government shutdown’s impact

By Aris Folley and Jacob Fulton
Posted November 4, 2025 at 3:58pm

President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025.

White House

Obamacare is still on Trump’s mind — but outlook appears doubtful

By John T. Bennett
Posted November 4, 2025 at 1:02pm
Former FBI Director James B. Comey testifies during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in June 2017.

Policy

Justice Department defends criminal case against James Comey

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted November 3, 2025 at 7:37pm
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., right, conduct a news conference on the government shutdown in the Capitol on Friday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Congress

Senate leaders prepare to pivot to a new bill to end shutdown

By Aris Folley
Posted November 3, 2025 at 3:21pm, Updated at 5:11pm
E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse

Appeals court sounds skeptical of Trump’s asylum ban

By Chris Johnson
Posted November 3, 2025 at 3:34pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins speak Friday about food assistance during a news conference in the Capitol on the government shutdown.

USDA tells court it will disburse all SNAP contingency funds

By Michael Macagnone
Posted November 3, 2025 at 1:46pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., arrives to hold his daily news conference on the government shutdown in the Capitol on Monday.

Whom to blame for shutdown? All 535 members of Congress

By Steven Pearlstein
Posted November 3, 2025 at 1:19pm
Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, introduced the resolution that would vacate a Bureau of Land Management decision closing about 11 million acres of land from oil and gas leasing. The Senate passed the resolution last week.

Congress leads reversal of land use rules amid BLM director questions

By David Jordan
Posted November 3, 2025 at 12:05pm
House Transportation and Infrastructure ranking member Rick Larsen, D-Wash., was among the House Democrats asking the Army Corps of Engineers for details of projects affected by a funding pause.

Democrats seek funding details on Cape Cod bridges, port projects

By Valerie Yurk
Posted November 3, 2025 at 12:00pm
President Donald Trump in April announced additional tariffs targeting goods imported to the U.S.

Trump’s tariff regime case could reshape Congress’ taxing power

By Michael Macagnone
Posted November 3, 2025 at 11:41am
A banner featuring President Donald Trump is seen on the Labor Department building in Washington on Oct. 26 as runners make their way down Pennsylvania Avenue during the 50th Marine Corps Marathon.

Federal judge thanks Trump, orders him to make SNAP payments

By CQ Roll Call staff
Posted November 1, 2025 at 8:07pm
Chairman Roger Wicker, left, and ranking member Jack Reed attend a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Feb. 27.

SASC leaders press DOD for legal justification of boat strikes

By Rebecca Kheel
Posted October 31, 2025 at 4:45pm
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and House Speaker Mike Johnson conduct a news conference on the government shutdown in the Capitol on Friday.

Federal judge directs USDA to pay November food stamp benefits

By Michael Macagnone
Posted October 31, 2025 at 4:21pm
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., was delayed in leaving Washington for the weekend because of a shutdown-related airport delay. Thune is shown speaking to reporters Tuesday, along with, from left, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., Majority Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C.

Lots of talk but no deal as shutdown heads for the record books

By Aris Folley and Jacob Fulton
Posted October 30, 2025 at 7:47pm
A part of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System runs past the Alaska Range mountains on May 5, 2023, near Delta Junction, Alaska.

Senate votes to vacate Biden rule on Alaska petroleum reserve

By David Jordan
Posted October 30, 2025 at 4:15pm
President Donald Trump greets Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday ahead of a summit meeting at Gimhae Air Base in Busan, South Korea. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Takeaways: Trump touts tenuous deals on tariffs, rare earths and soybeans

By John T. Bennett
Posted October 30, 2025 at 9:51am
Sens. Roger Marshall and Patty Murray arrive on the Senate subway for a vote in the Capitol on July 15.

Senators have outline for drug price program, but vote is elusive

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted October 30, 2025 at 7:00am
Senate Majority Leader John Thune speaks to reporters about the partial government shutdown outside his office in the Capitol on Wednesday.

Bipartisan talks to end shutdown gaining steam, senators say

By Aris Folley
Posted October 29, 2025 at 9:01pm
Sen. Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., pictured in the Capitol on April 8, has introduced a bill that would fund both SNAP and WIC while also ensuring that states would be reimbursed for costs incurred for administering SNAP and WIC during the shutdown.

Democrats seize on food stamp funding as latest rallying cry

By Jacob Fulton
Posted October 29, 2025 at 6:46pm
FBI Director Kash Patel, who in July announced the selection of the Ronald Reagan Building complex in downtown Washington for the FBI’s new headquarters, responds to questioning at a House hearing in September.

Senate panel approves step on new FBI headquarters plan

By Ryan Tarinelli and David Jordan
Posted October 29, 2025 at 5:55pm
Markham Erickson, left, vice president of government affairs and public policy at Google, and Neil Potts, vice president of public policy at Meta, testify on Wednesday.

Tech execs give qualified backing to ‘jawboning’ legislation

By Allison Mollenkamp
Posted October 29, 2025 at 3:48pm
Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley is pictured in the Capitol on Oct. 16. His bill has initial support from another Republican senator and two Democrats.

Senators unveil bipartisan chatbot child safety bill

By Allison Mollenkamp
Posted October 28, 2025 at 4:08pm, Updated October 29, 2025 at 3:23pm
Vice President JD Vance arrives in the Capitol to attend the Senate Republicans’ lunch meeting Tuesday amid the ongoing partial government shutdown.

Judge extends block on government shutdown layoffs

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted October 28, 2025 at 4:23pm
In an aerial view, a wind turbine generates electricity at the Block Island Wind Farm on July 07, 2022, near Block Island, R.I.

Offshore wind projects feel brunt of Trump policy decisions

By Kelly Livingston
Posted October 28, 2025 at 4:03pm
Former Indiana Democratic Rep. Tim Roemer is pictured during a House Science Committee hearing in 1998.

Life after Congress: Roemer’s focus turns to preserving democracy

By Mike Magner
Posted October 28, 2025 at 6:03am
Everett Kelley, national president of the American Federation of Government Employees, conducts a news conference on July 17.

Union call to reopen government exposes pain point for Democrats

By Lia DeGroot
Posted October 27, 2025 at 7:44pm
Attorney General Pamela Bondi testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this month.

Trump administration challenged on US attorney moves

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted October 27, 2025 at 5:26pm
Rep. Young Kim, R-Calif., arrives for House Republican Conference caucus meeting in the Capitol on Sept. 16, 2025.

Senate and House GOP defend community finance fund from Trump cuts

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
Posted October 27, 2025 at 4:04pm
The Main Reading Room at the Library of Congress is seen from the glass enclosed tourist viewing area.

Supreme Court asked to allow removal of Copyright Office head

By Michael Macagnone
Posted October 27, 2025 at 4:03pm
Electric vehicles charge outside of Blink Charging’s new flagship manufacturing facility in Bowie, Md., on March 11, 2024.

Fuel economy standards rewrite poised to deal a blow to EVs

By Valerie Yurk
Posted October 27, 2025 at 3:08pm
Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., walks up the House steps for a vote in the Capitol on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023.

Democrats keep focus on cybersecurity during shutdown

By Allison Mollenkamp
Posted October 27, 2025 at 12:56pm
House Appropriations Committee Tom Cole, R-Okla., left, and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., conduct a news conference in the U.S. Capitol on the eighth day of the government shutdown on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025.

Appropriations chairman bullish on full-year spending bills after shutdown

By Aidan Quigley
Posted October 27, 2025 at 12:00pm
Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins greets a girl who sold her a flower at a vendor at the inaugural Great American Farmers Market on the National Mall on Aug. 4. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is behind her.

USDA says it can’t use contingency fund for food stamps

By Olivia M. Bridges
Posted October 24, 2025 at 8:42pm
Late-Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, waged a battle for years to open the door to oil and gas drilling in the arctic refuge. He is seen in 2003 greeting the administrator of NASA, Sean O'Keefe, at a committee hearing on the space shuttle Columbia accident.

Interior’s Alaska drilling move caps lengthy congressional saga

By Kelly Livingston and Caitlin Hendel
Posted October 24, 2025 at 8:33pm