Elaina Plott
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Jonathan Bachman / Reuters The GOP’s 'Unbelievably Absurd' Response to Santa Fe
Anything-but-the-guns mentality has reared explanations that even fellow Republicans find unnerving.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters A Pruitt Aide's Attack on Zinke Angers the White House
A press staffer at the Environmental Protection Agency attempted to distract from his boss’s troubles by planting stories that would reflect poorly on the secretary of the interior.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Scott Pruitt and the Trump White House's Serial Scandals
In an echo of past controversies, the EPA administrator initially denied approving salary hikes for his top aides, but admitted he did so when questioned before Congress.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Paul Ryan Makes His Exit
The speaker of the House has decided not to run for reelection, setting off a succession fight—and perhaps yet another wave of retirements.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters The Senate Tries to Figure Out Facebook
Senators grappled less with the cultural and political implications of Facebook than with the basic mechanics by which it operates.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters An Internal Email Contradicts Scott Pruitt's Account of Controversial Raises
The EPA administrator has said he “didn’t know” about unusual salary bumps given to a pair of trusted aides, but a message from one of those staffers claims otherwise.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Senate Democrats Call for Investigation of Pruitt's Unusual Raises
Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Tom Carper question whether Pruitt or one of his aides abused special hiring powers granted by the Safe Drinking Water Act.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Scott Pruitt Bypassed the White House to Give Big Raises to Favorite Aides
The embattled EPA chief used an obscure provision last month to increase the salaries of a pair of staffers by tens of thousands of dollars.
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Reuters / Kevin Lamarque Kellyanne Conway Edges Toward Accepting the Job of Communications Director
The counselor to the president had resisted Trump’s previous entreaties, but is now considering replacing Hope Hicks on an interim basis.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Trump Vents His Anger Over Border-Wall Funding
The president is upset with congressional leaders for slow-rolling his core campaign promise, and for failing to defund sanctuary cities in their spending bill.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters 'I Think We Have a Leadership Problem'
Growing numbers of congressional Republicans are pressing for action on guns.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump Says a Democrat Won in Pennsylvania Because He’s ‘Like Trump’
In remarks delivered at a private fundraising event and obtained by The Atlantic, the president attributed Conor Lamb’s success to the fact that he “sounds like a Republican.”
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Could Conservatives Actually Pull Off a Coup Against House Leadership?
“There are some who believe being relevant means throwing a hand grenade in the middle of the conference.”
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters 'We Care Just as Much': A Republican Reflects on the Parkland Shooting
Texas Representative Joe Barton, a survivor of last summer’s mass shooting at a congressional baseball practice, talks about his reaction to the attack in Florida.
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Charles Rex Arbogast / AP Kevin Cramer Moves Closer to Launching a Senate Campaign
The House Republican from North Dakota received an offer from oil tycoon Harold Hamm to be his finance chair.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters House Conservatives Revolt Over Immigration
Two leaders of the House Freedom Caucus warn they won’t support a “bad immigration bill.”
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The U.S. Government Shut Down—and Reopened—While You Were Sleeping
After Rand Paul delayed a spending bill in the Senate, briefly closing the federal government, Democrats provided the votes necessary to pass it in the House.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Can Speaker Ryan Convince House Republicans to Support the Budget Deal?
The Senate is celebrating their two-year spending pact, but some conservative lawmakers in the lower chamber are refusing to support the agreement.
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Kevin Lamarque Congress Braces for Another Shutdown Fight—With Two Days Left to Go
A long-term budget deal that’s coming together in the Senate is complicating short-term spending negotiations.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Romney Is Already Being Considered for a Republican Leadership Position
Senate GOP leaders have expressed an early interest in elevating the sometime Trump critic—even though he hasn’t yet announced a run for office.
