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U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson speaks to the press after the House passed a major aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan and also voted to ban TikTok at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on April 20, 2024. (Photo by Drew ANGERER / AFP) (Photo by DREW ANGERER/AFP via Getty Images)

House passes foreign aid bills to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan

President Biden has expressed support for the House foreign aid package. It now heads to the Senate, where it is also expected to pass.

Michael Cohen, former personal lawyer to former President Donald Trump, and attorney Danya Perry leave his apartment building on his way to Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City on Thursday.

Trump's New York criminal trial could head to jury deliberation as soon as next week

Once an ally of the former president, now Cohen has spent a third day of testifying against him. He alleges Trump knew about the deal with an adult film star to keep quiet about an alleged affair.

Former President Donald Trump visited Capitol Hill on Thursday to meet with House and Senate Republicans.

Trump met with GOP lawmakers in Washington to rally support, push for unity

Former President Donald Trump met separately with House and Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill delivering speeches aimed at keeping the GOP aligned.

President Biden walks on the South Lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One on Friday. On Saturday, he signed into law a bipartisan spending package that averted a partial governmental shutdown.

Biden signs a $1.2 trillion funding package, averting a partial government shutdown

The compromise funding package will keep the federal government running through the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30.

Congress passes stopgap spending measure to dodge Friday shutdown threat

The House and the Senate have approved a short-term measure to keep the full federal government funded until early March.

U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, speaks to the media as he leaves a closed-door House Republican meeting at the U.S. Capitol on Friday.

Jordan is no longer nominee for House speaker after a secret vote

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, lost 25 Republican votes in his third failed bid to become speaker of the House. Jordan could not quell the opposition to his candidacy.

Temporary House leader Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., talks with Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, as Republicans try to elect Jordan in a second ballot to be the new House speaker on Wednesday.

House Republicans reject Rep. Jim Jordan for speaker of the House, again

The House of Representatives remains paralyzed as House Republicans again struggle to agree on any member to serve as speaker.

What a government shutdown would mean for the U.S. military — and national security

Service members would work without pay, and many civil servants are likely to be furloughed. Congress has yet to pass a separate bill to guarantee military pay as it did in previous shutdowns.

Members of the House and Senate raced to pass dueling spending bills ahead of a midnight deadline to fund the federal government.

Congress passes spending stopgap, averting a shutdown hours before midnight deadline

The Senate voted 88-9 to approve a short-term spending bill to fund the government through Nov. 17. President Biden signed the bill into law shortly afterward.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is working to convince members of his own party to support a stop-gap spending bill while also defending his job as speaker.

McCarthy's plans for impeachment don't appear to be tamping down shutdown threat

A group of hard-line House Republicans say House Speaker Kevin McCarthy cannot win their support on spending by launching an impeachment inquiry into President Biden.

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