Author: Lauren Green

Former President Joe Biden’s physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, showed up for his deposition on Wednesday after being subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee as part of its investigation into the alleged cover-up of Biden’s health decline. O’Connor entered the Rayburn House Office building hearing room at 9:36 a.m. and didn’t take any questions from reporters WHO IS…

Republicans are counting on President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” to be a winner with voters, while Democrats hope to make the massive law politically toxic ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Following the passage of Trump’s megabill, both sides of the aisle have pivoted to the campaign. Democrats have leaned into the bill changing…

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is using his “magic minute” privileges to deliver a long floor speech in one of the Democrats’ final efforts to oppose and stall President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” Jeffries took the House floor at 4:53 a.m., after House Republican leadership worked through the night to flip several holdouts…

The Trump administration has denied executive privilege to the nine aides of former President Joe Biden slated to testify before the House Oversight Committee regarding the allegations that there was a cover-up of the former president’s “mental decline.” The first witness, Neera Tanden, testified before the Oversight majority and minority counsel Tuesday, and was not…

The House Democratic Steering Committee recommended Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) to be the next top Democrat on the powerful House Oversight Committee ahead of the caucus vote Tuesday morning.  Four House Democrats, Reps. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), Stephen Lynch (D-MA), Kweisi Mfume (D-MD), and Garcia entered the June 24 race to be named the next top…

House Democrats showed support Monday for their colleagues’ efforts to push back on President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. Three House Democrats from California — Reps. Maxine Waters, Jimmy Gomez, and Norma Torres — were barred over the weekend from entering federal detention facilities to check on people detained as a result of immigration raids in…

House Democrats have run to defend Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) after the Justice Department charged her with assaulting federal law enforcement while protesting President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. A federal prosecutor on Monday charged McIver with assaulting, resisting, and impeding law enforcement at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in New Jersey while also…

A shock outcome in Omaha, Nebraska’s mayoral race on Tuesday night is giving Democrats hope they can regain a foothold in Washington and flip the House. Democrat John Ewing beat Jean Stothert, the longest-serving incumbent mayor in the country, by tying him to the more unpopular parts of President Donald Trump’s agenda. Ewing, who will…

House Republicans on Tuesday will seek to reverse the trend of rising Medicaid spending with reforms some fiscal hawks say don’t go far enough and Democrats have decried as too harsh. The House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a markup hearing Tuesday afternoon on a significant healthcare section of President Donald Trump’s agenda, which…

Two of the committees that hold the fate of President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” will huddle for hourslong hearings Tuesday to hammer out the details of the GOP budget proposal. The House Energy and Commerce Committee and House Ways and Means Committee are set to mark up the budget bill that passed earlier…