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Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Susan Collins (Maine) voted "no" on Jan. 23

ByteDance, the app's Chinese owner, has faced a Sunday deadline to divest from the company or it could go dark in the U.S.

Florida is suing a healthcare company after mistakenly paying it $5.7 million instead of $50K, with accusations that the CEO used the funds to run for congress.

After being re-elected, Louisiana Representative Mike Johnson falsely attributed a prayer he recited to Thomas Jefferson, even incorrectly claiming that the lower house of Congress recited the prayer daily during Jefferson's presidency.

The photo showed Sen. Cory Booker instead of Rep. Jeffries.

President-elect Donald Trump took to social media to announce that he is endorsing Mike Johnson to remain House Speaker.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned congressional leaders Friday that "extraordinary measures" will soon be required to prevent breaching the debt ceiling.

Rep. Annie Kuster, a Democrat from New Hampshire, says she barely escaped when a mob of pro-Trump supporters attacked the U.S Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021

He denied paying women for sex and challenged accusations that he had sex with a 17-year-old girl at a party in 2017

The new proposal includes funding through March, disaster relief and farm assistance.

GOP House members are considering a plan to split the spending bill into three separate parts.

Military personnel and reservists on active duty would still be required to report overseas and at home.

President-elect Donald Trump early Friday demanded that Congress either scrap or extend the "ridiculous" debt ceiling to 2029 after the House rejected a spending bill he backed.

Elon Musk posted a photo on X of the giant stack of papers that made up the original spending bill next to a much smaller stack of papers holding the new spending bill.

A Democratic legislator mocked President-elect Donald Trump for taking orders from billionaire Elon Musk, who she stated is acting as an "unelected President".

A Texas representative took to social media to attack a journalist who had been claiming that the legislator was pushing for a pay raise for members of Congress.

The president-elect floated the idea a day after he came out against the bipartisan spending deal to fund the government and avert a shutdown

One-half of the forthcoming Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) recommended Congress not pass Mike Johnson's $380 billion spending package to avoid a government shutdown.

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) proposed a plan to retaliate against congress on social media by exposing sexual misconduct allegations against congress members.

A House Republican stated that congressional ethics does not exist after the House Ethics Committee took a secret vote to release their report on Matt Gaetz.

It's the first time such a provision has been included in the spending bill since 2009.