Trump fans flames of election access as Republican support grows for national voter ID mandate

President Donald Trump stops and talks to the media before he boards Marine One on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, June 15, 2025. Tasos Katopodis | Getty Images President Donald Trump is escalating his crusade for voter identification requirements after last week’s promise of an executive order to implement such a … Read more

House votes to override Trump’s Canada tariffs

U.S. President Donald Trump (R) meets with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in the Oval Office of the White House on October 07, 2025 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images The House on Wednesday passed a resolution disapproving of President Donald Trump’s tariffs against Canada, a blow to Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and … Read more

House Republicans move toward reopening U.S. government

US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, Republican from Louisiana, speaks as he leads a news conference with House Republican leadership at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 3, 2026. Roberto Schmidt | Afp | Getty Images House Speaker Mike Johnson narrowly cleared a key procedural hurdle toward ending the three-day partial shutdown … Read more

House hardliners complicate ending government shutdown as Speaker Johnson moves ahead

Representative Anna Paulina Luna, a Republican from Florida, during the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 16, 2024. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images House Speaker Mike Johnson is running into problems with his own caucus as he tries to advance a Senate-approved measure to reopen most of the … Read more