Washington — The House on Wednesday passed a measure that would force President Trump to end the war with Iran without congressional authorization, marking the first time the lower chamber has defied the White House on the conflict. The House voted 215 to 208 to approve the war powers resolution with the help of four
Washington — Senate Republicans advanced a package to fund the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration agencies on Wednesday, following a back-and-forth over the Justice Department’s “anti-weaponization” fund that threatened to derail the long-sought funding. In a 53 to 46 vote, the Senate voted along party lines to proceed to the reconciliation package, setting up a
Washington — Senate Republicans advanced a package to fund the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration agencies on Wednesday, following a back-and-forth over the Justice Department’s “anti-weaponization” fund that threatened to derail the long-sought funding. In a 53 to 46 vote, the Senate voted along party lines to proceed to the reconciliation package, setting up a
President Trump’s pick for acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte has become a point of contention on Capitol Hill, including on Wednesday, when Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed to senators that he had a heated argument with the Trump loyalist last year — but disputed some of the details. The president’s decision to tap Pulte, who
Democrat Sam Forstag won his party’s primary in Montana’s 1st Congressional District on Tuesday, CBS News projects. The nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates the House race as likely Republican, but Democrats believe they have a chance to flip the open seat in November as they try to retake the majority for the final two years
Ric Grenell, President Trump’s special missions envoy and the former president of the Kennedy Center, says he was “rattled” Wednesday at the sentencing hearing of a man convicted of sending a threatening message to him in December. Grenell gave a victim impact statement in court before Scott Allen Bolger, a 33-year-old Virginia man, was sentenced
South Dakota’s incumbent Gov. Larry Rhoden and businessman Toby Doeden, a self-described political outsider, will advance to a runoff for the Republican nomination for the state’s governor, CBS News has projected. A July 28 runoff election is necessary because no candidate in Tuesday’s GOP primary is on track to win 35% of the vote. The