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An Iranian woman looks at the sky in Tehran, Iran, on Feb. 28, 2026, following the Israeli attacks.

White House

War powers votes unlikely to rein in Trump after Iran strikes

The start of military operation early Saturday morning adds more urgency to votes

By Rebecca Kheel
Posted February 28, 2026 at 1:42pm

President Donald Trump gestures as he arrives at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Fla. on Friday. Trump is spending the weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort.

White House

War Powers votes loom for Congress after U.S. strikes Iran

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted February 28, 2026 at 7:12am
From left, Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan, Brett M. Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett attend President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Policy

Supreme Court weighs legality of gun ban for drug users

By Michael Macagnone
Posted February 27, 2026 at 11:16am
Rep. Valerie P. Foushee, D-N.C., speaks during a news conference at the House Democrats 2023 Issues Conference in Baltimore, Md., on March 2, 2023.

Campaigns

North Carolina primary becomes an early test for Democrats

By Daniela Altimari
Posted February 27, 2026 at 3:44pm
A counterevent to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union is held on the National Mall in front of the Capitol on Tuesday.

Video

Circus maximus — Congressional Hits and Misses

By Chris Hale
Posted February 27, 2026 at 3:50pm
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, a senior appropriator, says a renewed moratorium on federal layoffs is not needed.

Moratorium on federal employee layoffs lapses amid shutdown

By Ryan Tarinelli and Aris Folley
Posted February 27, 2026 at 6:09pm
President Donald Trump delivers remarks about energy at the Port of Corpus Christi in Texas, on Friday. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump plays coy on Texas Senate GOP primary endorsement in Corpus Christi

By John T. Bennett
Posted February 27, 2026 at 6:04pm

2026 State of Government Affairs

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted February 4, 2026 at 12:15pm
Members of the media gather Friday outside the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center in Chappaqua, N.Y., as the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee conducts a deposition with former President Bill Clinton as part of the panel's investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Bill Clinton tells lawmakers he saw no Epstein misconduct

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted February 27, 2026 at 3:57pm
Connor Hellebuyck, right, and other members of the Olympic gold medal-winning U.S. men's hockey team are recognized by President Donald Trump during the State of the Union address in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | February 20-26, 2026

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted February 27, 2026 at 10:41am
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., leaves the Republican Senate luncheon in the Capitol on Feb. 10.

Tillis threatens nominee holds over immigration data request

By Chris Johnson
Posted February 27, 2026 at 7:00am

Read the latest issue

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted March 23, 2020 at 11:36am
Chairman Michael D. Crapo, R-Idaho, right, and ranking member Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., are seen at a Senate Finance Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building.

Bipartisan Senate bill promises ‘commonsense fixes’ to IRS

By Jacob Fulton
Posted February 27, 2026 at 7:00am

Capitol Ink | Poll patrol

By R.J. Matson
Posted February 27, 2026 at 7:00am
Last month, Rep. Elise Stefanik celebrated securing $12.5 million for a tech accelerator in upstate New York that the Pentagon had not requested.

Hill added $34 billion in unrequested defense program funds

By John M. Donnelly
Posted February 26, 2026 at 6:25pm
Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost, co-chair of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee, speaks at House Democrats’ annual issues conference at the Lansdowne Resort in Leesburg, Va., on Thursday. Also pictured are, from left, co-chair Lauren Underwood, Chair Debbie Dingell and co-chair Lori Trahan.

The search for Democrats’ HR 1

By Valerie Yurk
Posted February 26, 2026 at 5:44pm
Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., seen in the Capitol on Nov. 13, 2024, called the El Paso airspace closure a "failure of coordination." (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Senators question Pentagon official over El Paso airspace closure

By Rebecca Kheel
Posted February 26, 2026 at 5:28pm
House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James R. Comer, R-Ky., joined by Republican members of the committee, speaks to members of the media Thursday while arriving for a closed-door deposition with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center in Chappaqua, N.Y.

Hillary Clinton tells lawmakers she has no Epstein case information

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted February 26, 2026 at 3:45pm

At the Races: Make Tuesday nights political again

By Mary Ellen McIntire, Daniela Altimari and Niels Lesniewski
Posted February 26, 2026 at 3:25pm
Senate Judiciary Chair Charles E. Grassley is pictured in the Capitol on Dec. 9, 2025.

Senate Judiciary advances child online safety measures

By Allison Mollenkamp
Posted February 26, 2026 at 1:50pm

Capitol Ink | Midterm talking points

By R.J. Matson
Posted February 26, 2026 at 7:00am
Ethanol and no ethanol options are shown on a gas pump in Des Moines, Iowa. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

House misses its own deadline for bill to expand ethanol sales

By David Jordan
Posted February 26, 2026 at 6:07am
President Donald Trump applauds during Tuesday night’s State of the Union. The speech kicked off his economic message ahead of the midterms, Winston writes.

Trump’s economic progress report to the country — and what’s next

By David Winston
Posted February 25, 2026 at 7:31pm
Sen. Thom Tillis poses for photos with Babydog, the iconic English bulldog owned by Sen. Jim Justice, at Wednesday’s Doggi Gras Parade in the Hart Building.

Beads, bones and bipartisanship: Tillis’ last pawrade 

By Savannah Behrmann
Posted February 25, 2026 at 6:56pm
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks as Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., listens during the Senate Republicans’ news conference in the Capitol on Wednesday.

Push for a ‘talking filibuster’ stalls in Senate GOP conference 

By Savannah Behrmann and Valerie Yurk
Posted February 25, 2026 at 6:49pm

Capitol Lens | Pausing for paws

By Bill Clark
Posted February 25, 2026 at 5:21pm
Robert Cekada, nominee to be director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, arrives for his confirmation hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Feb. 4.

ATF pick decries GOP-led budget cuts

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted February 25, 2026 at 4:51pm
Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., left, and Ro Khanna, D-Calif., hope to force a vote on a war powers measure as soon as next week.

Iran war powers votes expected ‘very soon’

By Rebecca Kheel
Posted February 25, 2026 at 4:44pm
Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., talks with reporters in the Capitol. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Labor-HHS-Education earmarks are back in House, with limits

By Aidan Quigley
Posted February 25, 2026 at 12:56pm, Updated at 4:09pm
President Donald Trump greets Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, before delivering his State of the Union address in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026.

Members search for Iran clarity after Trump’s SOTU was short on foreign policy

By John T. Bennett
Posted February 25, 2026 at 3:29pm
Doug Jones, seen here as a senator in 2019, recently invoked post-Jim Crow Southern politicians “who saw that a region’s success depends on justice.”

Is the New South old news, or can it rise again?

By Mary C. Curtis
Posted February 25, 2026 at 2:00pm
An aide takes a photo outside the Capitol last fall. Seeing the bigger picture could help empower junior congressional staffers, according to transparency advocates.

Can knowledge be power? For salaries on the Hill, maybe 

By Nina Heller
Posted February 25, 2026 at 1:52pm
President Donald Trump applauds Tuesday during his State of the Union address.

The inconvenient truth about Donald Trump and the truth

By Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted February 25, 2026 at 1:14pm
Hill staffers wait in line for their caffeine fix at Black Crown Collective in the Cannon House Office Building on Feb. 5.

It’s a specialty coffee shop. It’s also inside a House office building 

By Nina Heller
Posted February 25, 2026 at 1:00pm
Rep. David Rouzer, R-N.C., seen here in 2024, was elected to the House in 2014. But he started out working as a staffer on the Senate side.

Rep. Rouzer talks tobacco farming and his time as a staffer for Jesse Helms

By Jackie Wang
Posted February 25, 2026 at 12:30pm
Travis Moore, founder of TechCongress, is photographed in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 18. “We’re talking about the first branch of government, and that expertise needs to live in-house,” he says.

Trading startups for statutes: Why technologists are choosing a year on the Hill

By Bradford Fitch
Posted February 25, 2026 at 12:01pm

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