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Both the House and Senate come back from recess this week to begin a busy three-week period that’s expected to focus on Republicans’ budget reconciliation agenda, including extending and expanding tax cuts and tightening immigration policy. The top items on the House agenda this week, meanwhile, will include more measures…

Trump is calling for the impeachment of Judge James Boasberg. Here's what Speaker Mike Johnson could do to side with the president even if that doesn't end up being the outcome

It was another dramatic week in Congress, featuring cowboy hats, shamrocks, bubbles, shutdown drama and Democrats in retreat.

Catch up on the political news of the past week in the latest At the Races newsletter, including more federal layoffs and Senate retirements.

The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs

Interviewed by Fox News host Sean Hannity in a branch of Steak ’n Shake in Florida on Tuesday, RFK Jr said of Trump: “I saw him yesterday and I think he’s lost 30 pounds.”

At the annual Friends of Ireland luncheon at the Capitol with Taoiseach Micheál Martin, the president talked up the “unstoppable spirit of the Irish.”

Medicaid cuts cause clashes. Democrats warn of consequences while Republicans deny Medicaid is in their proposal.

Analysis: America’s global relationships, like the economy, are stressed by such rapid back-and-forth policy shifts, writes John Bowden