After days of heated negotiations on Capitol Hill, the House passed its funding bill to prevent a government shutdown Friday night.

With a shutdown looming by the end of the week, Republicans face pressure from Trump and his ally Elon Musk to drop the funding bill they negotiated with Democrats.

Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday rejected reports that Senate support for her as Donald Trump's pick to be director of national intelligence vote is lackluster.

House passes Paris Hilton-championed Stop Institutionalized Child Abuse bill, a sweet victory for the celebrity heiress after nearly three years of lobbying politicians.

In a final lame-duck push, the Senate will attempt to pass legislation aimed at providing full Social Security benefits to millions of Americans this week.

Hilton is headed back to Washington D.C. to meet with House members on Monday, urging leadership to call the bill to the floor for a vote.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. returned to the Hill Tuesday to make his case to Republican senators for leadership of the Dept. of Health and Human Services.

The GOP's government funding bill still isn’t ready -- putting the federal government on the brink of a shutdown at the end of the week.

Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., fended off a challenge from progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., to become the House Oversight Committee’s top-ranked Democrat.

Sen. Mike Rounds, who introduced legislation last month to eliminate the Department of Education, told ABC News closing the agency could take "a couple of years."

Sen. Mitt Romney has given his final remarks after seeing the Republican Party for which he was once the standard bearer drastically transform under Donald Trump

The 17 standing committees will be dominated by white men when the new Congress is seated on Jan. 3. No people of color were selected, either.

Why it's hard for Democrats to win elections for U.S. Senate control.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell fell during the Senate Republican lunch on Tuesday.

Donald Trump, in his first broadcast news interview since the election, said members of the House panel that investigated the Capitol attack "should go to jail."

Massachusetts congresswoman Lori Trahan said she has become the latest Democratic Washington official to receive a threat against her family.

The screaming match happened Thursday at a House panel investigating the assassination attempt against President-elect Donald Trump.

Rep. Jerry Nadler announced Wednesday he would step down from his role as the Democratic leader on the House Judiciary Committee and backed Rep. Jamie Raskin.

With Trump picks leaving vacancies, Republicans could have a 217-215 majority -- the narrowest GOP majority in history -- when the 119th Congress convenes on Jan. 3.

Neither party made significant gains in 2024, and Republican women still lag behind.

Republicans senators returned to Washington after Thanksgiving recess to a renewed peppering of questions about President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet picks.

Pete Hegseth, Trump's pick for defense secretary, was back on Capitol Hill Tuesday looking to shore up support as he fends off allegations of misconduct.

Democrat Casten introduced an updated privileged resolution to try to force the bipartisan Ethics Committee to release its report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz.

On Monday, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Commanders Managing Partner Josh Harris met with Hill leaders on the stadium proposal and among other matters.

Democrats need to flip four Senate seats in 2026 to reclaim a majority, but have few clear targets.

As of Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. Eastern, ABC News is reporting that Republicans have won at least 218 seats in the next House and Democrats have won at least 208.

The homes of multiple Democratic members of Congress were targeted by bomb threats on Thanksgiving Day.

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will head to Capitol Hill next week to meet with Republicans on their plan to slash regulations and other parts of the federal government.

Donald Trump is set to take office in January with a razor-thin majority in the House of Representatives that offers Republicans barely any margin of error.

538's polling column about Republicans' transgender bathroom bans, Trump's transition, trust in polls and Thanksgiving plans.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene will chair a new subcommittee aimed at eliminating government waste under the newly formed “Department of Government Efficiency.”

Bipartisan House Ethics Committee were deadlocked along party lines on whether to release a report on its investigation of Matt Gaetz, Trump's attorney general pick.

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz met with senators on Capitol Hill on Wednesday alongside Vice President-elect JD Vance.

House Speaker Mike Johnson said transgender women cannot use women’s restrooms in the Capitol and House office buildings

House members could use some unusual -- though not unprecedented -- means to get the Gaetz report if the Ethics Committee decides not to release it.

Senate Democrats are expected to dedicate hours of floor time in coming weeks as a last-minute effort to confirm President Joe Biden's nominees to the federal judiciary.

Rep.-elect Sarah McBride is the first transgender member of Congress.

The bill would come as Rep.-elect Sarah McBride prepares to take office as the first transgender member of Congress.

After weekend with Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson laid out a tentative plan to keep the government funded that could tee up a funding fight in Trump’s first 100 days.

House Speaker Mike Johnson announced Wednesday evening that House Republicans from across the conference struck a deal to raise the threshold for the motion to vacate.