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Gas prices over $5 a gallon are displayed at a filling station on April 12 in San Rafael, Calif.

Biden’s Ireland trip overshadowed by events — foreign and domestic

By David Winston
Posted April 19, 2023 at 6:00am
President Joe Biden greets Vice President Kamala Harris after the State of the Union address in the House chamber of the Capitol on Tuesday, Feb. 7.

Biden, Harris release their 2022 tax returns

By David Lerman
Posted April 18, 2023 at 8:03pm
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer has the thankless job of corralling the votes from a fractious GOP conference.

Climate credits, IRS funds snarl GOP debt limit talks

By Lindsey McPherson, Laura Weiss and Aidan Quigley
Posted April 18, 2023 at 2:19pm, Updated at 6:46pm
Speaker Kevin McCarthy has a tough job ahead wrangling votes in his chamber.

McCarthy blasts Biden, Democrats over debt limit

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted April 17, 2023 at 12:12pm, Updated at 7:34pm
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., returned to the Senate chamber for the first time in almost six weeks on Monday.

McConnell returns to Senate, urges Biden to ‘stop wasting time’ on debt ceiling

By John T. Bennett
Posted April 17, 2023 at 4:31pm
President George W. Bush speaks at Airlite Plastics trying to drum up support for his tax cut proposal May 12, 2003 in Omaha, Neb.

Congress will miss its budget deadline. That’s not unusual.

By Peter Cohn
Posted April 14, 2023 at 9:38am
Former President Donald Trump speaks during a post-arrest event at Mar-a-Lago on April 4.

Why defendant Trump’s 2024 primary edge might be insurmountable

By John T. Bennett
Posted April 14, 2023 at 6:00am
Vice President Kamala Harris tours an assembly plant for New Flyer electric buses on Feb. 9 in St. Cloud, Minn., where she talked about the administration’s investment in clean energy projects.

White House building more bridges as most recent investment tour concludes

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted April 13, 2023 at 5:00am, Updated at 6:18pm
Rep. Stephanie Bice, R-Okla., co-chair of Main Street Caucus in her Rayburn Building office on March 22, 2023.

GOP debt limit plans begin to take shape in House

By Lindsey McPherson, Paul M. Krawzak and Aidan Quigley
Posted April 13, 2023 at 5:10pm
Ransomware, a tactic where hackers take over a computer system and demand payment to release it, is also a problem among U.S. allies.

Demand rises for US cybersecurity aid to allies, diplomat says

By Gopal Ratnam
Posted April 12, 2023 at 12:17pm
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., warns of the emerging threat of xylazine. The Biden administration on Wednesday announced it was designating the animal tranquilizer "an emerging threat."

Biden administration designates xylazine as emerging threat

By Sandhya Raman
Posted April 12, 2023 at 9:31am
"This is what we mean when we say that tackling the climate crisis is about creating opportunity," said EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan.

To boost EVs, EPA proposes stricter vehicle emissions standards

By David Jordan and Valerie Yurk
Posted April 12, 2023 at 8:34am
President Joe Biden speaks during the Annual Friends of Ireland luncheon in the Rayburn Room of the U.S. Capitol on March 17.

Biden in Belfast to commemorate Good Friday Agreement

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted April 11, 2023 at 12:36pm, Updated at 4:54pm
Rep. Mark Takano, D-Calif., poses for photos holding a transgender pride flag on the House steps on Nov. 17, 2021.

Title IX changes seek to ‘minimize harm’ to transgender athletes

By Daniela Altimari
Posted April 6, 2023 at 6:08pm
IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel is pictured testifying at his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing on Feb. 15.

IRS unveils plan to crack down on tax cheats, improve service

By Laura Weiss
Posted April 6, 2023 at 6:04pm
Bypassing suggestions that it switch to painted potatoes or even rocks, the White House is sticking with eggs for the Easter event on Monday.

White House sticks with tradition and rolls the eggs

By Ellyn Ferguson
Posted April 6, 2023 at 12:10pm
The EPA’s “good neighbor” plan aims to reduce cross-state smog pollution from power plants and other industrial sources by requiring the use of emissions reduction technologies.

Republicans question EPA ‘good neighbor’ rule

By David Jordan
Posted April 6, 2023 at 7:00am
Former President Donald Trump arrives for his arraignment at Manhattan Criminal Court on Tuesday.

Trump’s legal woes will put Gerald Ford’s pardoning metric to the test

By John T. Bennett
Posted April 6, 2023 at 6:00am
Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen delivers remarks as new IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel looks on during his swearing-in ceremony on Tuesday.

Yellen: IRS to reveal plan this week for spending $80 billion

By Laura Weiss
Posted April 4, 2023 at 4:53pm
President Joe Biden holds a meeting with his science and technology advisors at the White House on Tuesday.

Amid Trump 24/7, Biden focuses on business as usual

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted April 4, 2023 at 4:12pm
President Joe Biden speaks during a joint news conference last week with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Those still trying to understand the 46th diplomat in chief would be wise to study his answers, Bennett writes.

Biden lets us all know he’s playing global power chess as he chides the checkers-playing set

By John T. Bennett
Posted March 31, 2023 at 6:00am
Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., attends a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on air travel disruptions on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023.

Indiana GOP senator carves out dealmaking niche on taxes

By Laura Weiss
Posted March 31, 2023 at 5:30am
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Thursday that Republicans are "very close" to coalescing around a debt limit bill that would include fiscal policy changes he floated to President Joe Biden.

House will move debt limit bill if Biden won’t negotiate

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted March 30, 2023 at 6:21pm
ARPA-H Director Renee Wegrzyn said the agency is part of the health research ecosystem and is there to "add a little bit of rocket fuel to it."

Health research focus could give NIH competition for funding

By Ariel Cohen
Posted March 30, 2023 at 7:00am
Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., argued that a 2020 emergency pandemic order had to be rescinded two months before President Joe Biden planned to do it to restore checks and balances between Congress and the executive branch.

Senate votes to overturn COVID-19 national emergency order

By Mary Ellen McIntire and Niels Lesniewski
Posted March 29, 2023 at 7:42pm
House Budget Chairman Jodey C. Arrington, R-Texas, right, and ranking member Rep. Brendan F. Boyle, D-Pa., during a committee meeting last month.

Budget blueprint may take a back seat to debt limit in House

By David Lerman and Lindsey McPherson
Posted March 29, 2023 at 6:47pm
President Joe Biden urged Congress to give the FDIC clawback authority in the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank collapses this month.

Bipartisan group of senators offer clawback bill for bank failures

By Caitlin Reilly
Posted March 29, 2023 at 3:32pm, Updated at 4:21pm
President Joe Biden

Biden rejects McCarthy’s call for meeting without a GOP budget

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted March 29, 2023 at 7:05am
Demonstrators gather outside the Capitol to demand action on gun safety on May 26, 2022, in the wake of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Texas.

Mass shootings show ‘Stein’s Law’ has sadly met its match

By Walter Shapiro
Posted March 29, 2023 at 6:00am
President Joe Biden delivers remarks Tuesday at Wolfspeed, a semiconductor manufacturer in Durham, N.C.

Biden visits microchip plant to launch ‘investments’ tour

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted March 28, 2023 at 3:48pm