Congress

The White House's $1.776 billion anti-weaponization settlement fund relies on executive authority that the Constitution does not clearly grant. The legal firestorm now at lawmakers' feet is the question Congress has been content to leave unanswered.

Office of the Director of National Intelligence officials confirmed to Congress that Section 702 surveillance warrants have exceeded legal scope in specific cases. Intelligence Committee staffers expressed concern about overly broad application.

The CR Congress passed in May cost $1.9 trillion when you count the supplementals. Half of it does not appear in the topline. Here are the receipts.

Congress is preparing to pass an $8.3 billion emergency supplemental for Trump's Iran strikes, giving members four days to review a package including $3.2 billion in classified programs. Democrats complain about notification. Nobody asks about the authorization.

Congress is debating a $14.3 billion supplemental to fund Trump's Iran strike campaign, but independent analysts put the true first-year cost closer to $21 billion. Refusing to fully fund this fight won't end it. It will hand Tehran the victory on a payment plan.

Congress is finally moving to reassert its constitutional authority over war. Whether it means it this time is a different question entirely.

The Department of Homeland Security inches toward shutdown while Congress pats itself on the back for buying time. Our border isn't a scheduling conflict, it's a war front.

The government kept TSA workers paid through accounting tricks. Congress called it breathing room. Economists should call it what it is: deferred reckoning.

The strikes on Iran cost billions. Congress is scrambling for funding. And Democrats who cheered the chaos are now crying about the bill.

Google, Meta, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft spent a combined $103 million lobbying Congress in 2025. The result: zero new regulations. That's not failure, that's the product.

The Senate funded DHS but left TSA workers in limbo. What looks like a budget fight is actually a test of whether Congress still controls the border, or whether it's outsourced that job to bureaucratic inertia.

When your own party's members are flashing red lights before the ink is dry, the problem isn't the opposition. It's the bill.

The administration thought it had a deal to reorganize DHS. It didn't. What happened next reveals exactly how much political capital has already been spent, and on what.

Yes, the House was designed to scale with population. But the people pushing expansion now aren't constitutionalists, they're gerrymandering the composition of Congress for partisan advantage.

Republicans are calling the path to end the DHS shutdown a victory. A government that needs an emergency deal to fund its own security apparatus every few months isn't winning anything.

Speaker Johnson's thin majority is one bad flu season away from legislative paralysis, and the consequences reach far beyond a missed vote.

The Obama-era DHS chief wants Washington to stop the funding wars. He's not wrong about the dysfunction. He's completely wrong about the cure.

Chuck Schumer called the SAVE America Act one of the most despicable bills he's ever seen. He's seen a lot. That should make you suspicious.

The Illinois Democratic bench is so thin that the party is recycling politicians who already lost. What that tells you about the state of the left isn't pretty.

The new Farm Bill doesn't just subsidize agriculture, it restructures food markets in ways that will increase your grocery bill by an estimated $1,200 per year.

The latest spending package calls itself infrastructure. Less than 40% goes to roads, bridges, or broadband. The rest is a progressive wish list with a hard hat on.

When a man kneels to pray in an end zone, the world mocks him. When he stands before Congress to defend children, he deserves to be heard.

Trump's ultimatum to Thune isn't a power grab. It's a president demanding that the legislative branch do the job it was hired to do.

Republican anxiety about a 'forever war' with Iran is legitimate. But anxiety alone doesn't produce strategy.

House Democrats are scrambling to pass a war powers resolution on Iran. The politics are obvious, the constitutional argument is selective, and the strategy is pure theater.

The press frames congressional division on Iran as a crisis. It isn't. It's the constitutional system working as designed, and the executive branch is the beneficiary.

The House voted to let Trump's Iran operation continue. Good. Now let's talk about what it actually means for American deterrence in the Middle East.

The House returned to Washington with five unanswered questions about Iran. The real scandal is that Congress is the last body capable of answering any of them.

Both parties are calculating their political exposure from the Iran conflict. Neither is asking the question that actually matters: are we fighting for something real?