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Funding extension passes House, heads for Senate rewrite

Stopgap could be poised for ping-ponging between chambers

By Aris Folley and Jacob Fulton
Posted July 21, 2026 at 11:34pm

Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs, center, here with Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett, right, after a House Republican Conference meeting in 2025, has won the Republican nomination for governor. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Campaigns

Trump-backed candidates sweep to victory in Arizona primaries

By Daniela Altimari
Posted July 22, 2026 at 5:32am
It’s only July, but the legislative year is nearly over for Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune. Above, the pair conclude a news conference in the Capitol last October, during the partial government shutdown.

Congress

Can the GOP trifecta meet their ‘mandate’ moment?

By Valerie Yurk and Savannah Behrmann
Posted July 21, 2026 at 6:29pm
South Carolina Sen. Darline Graham arrives at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday for Senate Republicans’ lunch meeting.

Campaigns

For Darline Graham, winning Trump’s endorsement may be the easy part

By Daniela Altimari, Savannah Behrmann and Valerie Yurk
Posted July 21, 2026 at 5:21pm
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the U.S. Capitol in June as Senate Majority Leader John Thune listens. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Campaigns

Which direction is Trump’s job approval rating headed?

By Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted July 21, 2026 at 5:40pm

Capitol Ink | Election sabotage

By R.J. Matson
Posted July 22, 2026 at 7:00am
Democratic Rep. Cleo Fields will run for his old seat in the Louisiana Senate. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Louisiana’s Cleo Fields forgoes reelection after redistricting eliminated his seat

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted July 21, 2026 at 5:17pm

Fly-In Strategy: What Advocacy Experts Say Still Works

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted May 6, 2026 at 5:56pm
White House counselor Peter Navarro speaks during a news conference outside the USDA Whitten Building on Tuesday, July 8, 2025.

Appeals court upholds contempt of Congress conviction for Navarro

By Michael Macagnone
Posted July 21, 2026 at 12:35pm, Updated at 4:48pm
Anthea Hartig, director of the National Museum of American History, is sworn in for a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee hearing Tuesday.

Republicans in Congress probe history museum, echoing Trump

By Nina Heller
Posted July 21, 2026 at 3:57pm

Capitol Lens | Upon reflection

By Bill Clark
Posted July 21, 2026 at 2:58pm

2026 State of Government Affairs

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted February 4, 2026 at 12:15pm
President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the East Room of the White House on Thursday evening. (SAUL LOEB / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

Independent voters have been skeptical of Trump’s election claims

By John T. Bennett
Posted July 21, 2026 at 1:51pm
Flowers honoring the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., are seen during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on July 16.

Rotunda tribute and Cathedral funeral announced for Lindsey Graham 

By Savannah Behrmann
Posted July 21, 2026 at 12:49pm
Rep. John Joyce, R-Pa., leaves the Capitol Hill Club after a meeting of the House Republican Conference on Tuesday, March 4, 2025.

Competing bills aim for elusive changes to drug discount program

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted July 21, 2026 at 12:17pm

Read the latest issue

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted March 23, 2020 at 11:36am
Guthrie says care won't suffer as a result of his committee's probes.

Voters are split as GOP focuses on fraud

By Lia DeGroot
Posted July 21, 2026 at 12:07pm
From left, Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, Pramila Jayapal, Seth Magaziner, and Tim Burchett talk to reporters about their bipartisan ideas for banning stock trading in November.

Dashed dreams for consensus group ahead of stock-trading vote 

By Nina Heller
Posted July 21, 2026 at 10:22am

At the Races: Copper State clashes

By Daniela Altimari and Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted July 21, 2026 at 5:00am
A country determined to live up to the ideals of its founding documents should not have to worry about a comeback of the worst policies of the past, like poll tests, Curtis writes. Above, a voter fills out a ballot in Virginia in 2024.

North Carolina not so quietly pushes Trump’s efforts to restrict the vote

By Mary C. Curtis
Posted July 21, 2026 at 5:00am
A visitor tours the Korean War Veterans Memorial during a government shutdown on Oct. 20, 2025.

Surge in veterans’ brain injuries shown in VA records

By John M. Donnelly
Posted July 20, 2026 at 8:52pm
South Carolina Sen. Darline Graham, left, here making her way to a vote Thursday with Alabama Sen. Katie Britt, says she will seek a full Senate term. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Darline Graham will seek a full term for late brother’s seat in South Carolina

By Daniela Altimari
Posted July 20, 2026 at 2:10pm, Updated at 6:02pm
Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pa., at the House Energy and Commerce Committee meeting to organize for the 115th Congress on Jan. 24, 2017.

Former Rep. Tim Murphy dies at age 73

By Nick Eskow
Posted July 20, 2026 at 5:54pm
Former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson, here at a rally in Portland on May 1, appears poised to clinch the Democratic nomination for Senate. (Graeme Sloan/Getty Images)

Troy Jackson on track to replace Platner as Democratic Senate nominee in Maine

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted July 20, 2026 at 5:12pm
The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta. The Office of Management and Budget late last week told the CDC that it will not renew $46 million in funding for the 96 community-based organizations to provide HIV testing, linkage to care, referrals for pre- and post-exposure drug treatment and outbreak response.

Trump administration puts kibosh on HIV prevention funding

By Ariel Cohen
Posted July 20, 2026 at 12:00pm, Updated at 1:53pm
Alabama Rep. Shomari Figures' seat is on the NRCC's target list. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

NRCC adds 7 more seats to 2026 target list

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted July 20, 2026 at 7:00am, Updated at 9:39am
OMB Director Russell Vought faces criticism for a proposed overhaul of federal grant regulations.

Critics mount offensive against change to federal grant rules

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted July 20, 2026 at 6:00am
With narrow majorities, fewer deal-makers and power struggles with the president, paths once open to Congress are closing. Above, workers place concrete jersey barriers near the Capitol ahead of the State of the Union in 2022.

How Congress is losing its path(s)

By Valerie Yurk and Savannah Behrmann
Posted July 20, 2026 at 5:00am
South Carolina Sen. Darline Graham arrives for her ceremonial swearing-at the Capitol on Tuesday.

Trump backs newly appointed Darline Graham for full Senate term

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted July 17, 2026 at 5:13pm
Flowers honoring the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., are seen during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Thursday.

‘A dumber and grimmer place’  — Congressional Hits and Misses

By Chris Hale
Posted July 17, 2026 at 4:49pm
A patient is wheeled to surgery on the opening day of UCI Health - Irvine in Irvine, Calif., on Dec. 10, 2025. Many of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality grants terminated this week had supported junior researchers and innovative studies focused on patient care.

HHS research agency ends funding for dozens of health studies

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted July 17, 2026 at 4:14pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and House Republicans give a thumbs up during the enrollment ceremony of President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act after the bill passed in the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, July 3, 2025.

One year in, how are Republicans doing selling the BBB to voters?

By David Winston
Posted July 14, 2026 at 4:42pm, Updated July 17, 2026 at 3:35pm
A black drape and flowers mark the seat once belonging to the late Sen. Lindsey Graham at a Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday.

Dates set for Lindsey Graham funeral services

By Savannah Behrmann
Posted July 17, 2026 at 2:41pm
Family members of victims speak to reporters on March 25 outside the Los Angeles County Superior Court during one of the coordinated lawsuits alleging that Meta and YouTube are designed to hook young users and cause them a variety of negative mental health effects.

Kids online safety push faces First Amendment hurdles

By Allison Mollenkamp
Posted July 17, 2026 at 1:18pm
President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the East Room of the White House on July 16, 2026.

The Factba.se deep dive on Trump fraud claims

By Bill Frischling
Posted July 17, 2026 at 12:25pm
The days are long but the legislative summer is short in Washington. Above, a jogger is reflected in a puddle on Union Square in 2023.

Wrapup: Congress’ July sprint off to a stumbling start

By Savannah Behrmann and Valerie Yurk
Posted July 17, 2026 at 11:28am
A screen showing President Donald Trump's address to the nation is seen in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Thursday night as he delivers an address from the nearby East Room.

Trump’s questionable claims cast doubt over midterms as Dems fret

By John T. Bennett
Posted July 17, 2026 at 11:08am
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