Lawmakers are leaving Capitol Hill for the holidays, but we caught them before they headed out to hear what their family traditions are for Christmas or the New Year.

WASHINGTON—The House on Dec. 19 voted down a pared-down, Trump-backed plan to fund the government with just more than 24 hours until a government shutdown begins. In a 235–174 vote, lawmakers rejected the proposal. The group voting against the bill included all but two Democrats and a slate of conservative Republicans. The bill, which advanced […]

WASHINGTON—Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) said on Wednesday night the massive stopgap funding bill put forward by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) was scrapped after President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance came out in opposition to the bill. “There is no new agreement right now,” Scalise told reporters, and lawmakers are “looking at […]

Congress has until Dec. 20 to reach a consensus to extend government funding or face a shutdown. A disaster relief supplemental request from President Joe Biden is the main obstacle in the negotiations in the House and the Senate.  

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the latest version of the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Dec. 11, moving the bill one step closer to becoming law. The compromise NDAA bill, at more than 1,800 pages, provides up to $895.2 billion in discretionary defense spending for the fiscal year. The annual defense authorization […]

Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel, and Pete Hegseth visit Capitol Hill this week to muster support from senators ahead of next year’s confirmation process.  

The House of Representatives is set to vote on this year’s annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The final text has been stripped of important priorities for House Republicans.  

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) announced on Dec. 6 that she is running to be the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, being the second one to throw her hat in the ring to succeed Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.). In a letter to Democrat colleagues, Ocasio-Cortez, who has represented New York’s 14th Congressional District since […]

WASHINGTON—The acting director of the Secret Service said Thursday that the agency is “reorganizing and reimagining” its culture and how it operates following an assassination attempt against Donald Trump on the campaign trail. Members of a bipartisan House task force investigating the attempt on Trump’s life pushed Ronald Rowe on how the agency’s staffers could […]

Congress is expected to vote on its National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2025 before Dec. 20. This year’s NDAA is expected to include legislation to counter the malign influence of the Chinese Communist Party worldwide.  

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Kash Patel to lead the FBI. We take a look at his background and career.

Lawmakers will have less than 20 days to reach an agreement to avoid a government shutdown. The funding battle this year has the added pressure of having to also tackle an emergency budget request by the president during the last days of the lame-duck session of Congress.  

Lawmakers react to the cease-fire deal between Israel and the Hezbollah terrorist group.

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for U.N. ambassador, Elise Stefanik, signals a shift in U.S. foreign policy toward Ukraine and China, and U.S. global leadership in the world. NTD has more on the background and credentials Stefanik brings to the position.

House Democrats have expressed their opposition to President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet nominations. Democrats have suggested Congress’s power over government spending may be under threat.  

The lame duck session of Congress is already proving to be consequential for the Trump administration’s nomination process. It’s also proven consequential to outstanding budgetary bills that will determine policy right into 2025.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and FBI Director Chris Wray declined requests to testify at a Nov. 21 Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing. The Senate committee had called the hearing to discuss ongoing threats to national security and called on Mayorkas and Wray to address the committee in an […]

An internal Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) investigation found “no evidence” that a directive to hurricane relief workers to avoid the homes of President-elect Donald Trump’s supporters came from senior agency officials, according to FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell. The statement follows backlash over the revelation that a FEMA supervisor ordered Hurricane Milton relief workers canvassing […]

House Republicans will have to select a new chairman for the House Foreign Affairs Committee after Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) announced he will be stepping down from the chairmanship.  

President-elect Donald Trump tapped Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) for secretary of state. What does Rubio’s nomination tell us about the future of U.S. foreign policy?