The House of Representatives passed a budget resolution this week that clears the way for Congress to quickly pass a tax-reform bill. Final details of a tax bill are still being determined but members have indicated that they hope to have a final bill approved by the end of November. "We need to get the tax bill out of the Senate by Thanksgiving," said Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the Senate majority whip.
South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Friday that if Republicans don't pass tax reform, then Democrats will take back the House of Representatives and attempt to impeach President Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump, in a call Friday with Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, said that he intends to accept Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's recommendation to shrink the size of Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, a spokesperson for the senator told CNN.
The CIA mulled mafia hits on Cuban President Fidel Castro. Someone called the FBI threatening to kill Lee Harvey Oswald a day before Oswald's murder. And the US examined sabotaging airplane parts heading to Cuba.
If there's one way to get President Donald Trump to like you, it's to talk -- in the most exaggerated possible terms -- about just how great Donald Trump is.
Dana Boente, a career federal prosecutor who has worn many hats in the Trump administration, including most recently serving as the acting head of the Justice Department's national security division and US attorney of the Eastern District of Virginia, is retiring, according to sources with knowledge of his departure.
Republicans on Capitol Hill are officially clear to move on to tax reform, a must-pass agenda item decades in the making that will test the party's unity and could seal their fate in the 2018 midterm election.
The big news of a very busy week in Washington is that Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee funded the collection of dirt on Donald Trump via a firm called Fusion GPS.
The Catalan Parliament voted overwhelmingly in favor of declaring independence from Spain on Friday, taking the country's deepening political crisis into uncharted territory.
The vehicles carrying the 12-member Green Beret-led team that was ambushed in Niger by ISIS militants earlier this month became separated during the firefight, US officials and a Nigerien soldier present told CNN Thursday.
Here are two headlines from recent weeks that don't share a specific link, but tell you a lot about what's going with the federal government right now.
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