The House is heading into a high-stakes week, as lawmakers juggle a budget blueprint for a second reconciliation bill alongside a measure to extend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s (FISA) warrantless surveillance powers — all before departing for recess next week. Most pressing on the agenda is an extension of Section 702 of FISA, which
The U.S. Capitol building on April 22, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times Congress will return to Capitol Hill this week with a lengthy to-do list as leadership works to finalize passage of several key legislative priorities. The top priority will be to continue work on a $70 billion package to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement
President Donald Trump expressed support for the idea of renaming Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to National Immigration and Customs Enforcement (NICE).
The speaker has to rescue a contested spy law, fund immigration enforcement, pass a farm bill, host a king and deal with fallout from the WHCD.
President Donald Trump speaks, flanked by FBI Director Kash Patel, Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin, and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, during a press briefing in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, shortly after a shooting incident at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, on April 25, 2026. Mandel Ngan/AFP via
Critics say socialist NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani's racial equity plan moves the goalposts on poverty to justify massive government intervention.
A New Jersey plastic surgeon now running for Congress with Rep. Ilhan Omar’s endorsement worked in a hospital in Gaza that functioned as a Hamas command center—and dismissed reports that there were terror tunnels located underneath the hospital before Hamas boss Mohammed Sinwar was killed in a tunnel directly under the hospital’s emergency department. Dr. Adam