Although Donald Trump will not appear on the ballot, America's 2026 Congressional elections will be seen as a country-wide referendum on his second presidency. Which party controls Congress will also shape the final two years of the Trump era.

Arden Farhi is the managing editor for CBS News' Washington bureau. He has covered several presidential campaigns and the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations. His executive producer credits include "The Takeout with Major Garrett" and the CBS News ...

FIRST ON FOX: A group of House conservatives is putting Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., on notice: quickly pass a Trump-backed election bill or expect the House of Representatives to block every Senate measure. Two dozen House Republicans, led ...

House Republican leaders are resisting calls to bring up a bipartisan Senate bill to fund the bulk of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and are insisting on first passing a “skinny” bill to fund immigration enforcement — despite grumbles in the Senate GOP and pressure from the White House as DHS runs out

This article was first published in the On the Hill newsletter. Sign up to receive the newsletter in your inbox on Friday mornings here. The Department of Homeland Security shutdown continues. And you may not know it, but there is a deal on the table to ...

(CNN) — In a remarkable 24 hours in Washington, House Republicans snubbed a bipartisan funding deal cut by their own Senate GOP counterparts and instead approved an entirely different plan — prolonging the Department of Homeland Security shutdown.