With 2025 behind us, The Texas Tribune’s politics team has compiled five of the top political stories we are watching in 2026 ...

House Freedom Caucus outlines policy goals for 2026 in detailed letter to Speaker Johnson ahead of a GOP forum featuring ...

Congress unveils more than $174 billion spending bill to avoid government shutdown by Jan. 30 deadline, with House vote ...

Former Speaker McCarthy points to redistricting efforts, legislative gridlock, and partisan fighting as key factors driving ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson’s narrow majority will shrink a bit further with the resignation this week of Marjorie Taylor Greene, a close ally-turned-critic of President Donald Trump.

The new deadline to pass a budget is Jan. 30, meaning both chambers of Congress will have to pass a budget bill in order to ...

California had, as of mid-December, received about $5.7 billion in FEMA aid, money which the governor’s office said had been ...

Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) remains one of the most-followed members of Congress when it comes to ...

Donnelly, a seasoned former federal prosecutor, once testified to the Texas House about Attorney General Ken Paxton's ...

Redistricting took a lot of oxygen out of the 2026 session, but there's still two months to cram in a handful of issues.