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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., joined by fellow Republicans, speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 6, 2024. The House is expected to vote to keep money flowing to scores of federal agencies before a midnight Friday shutdown deadline. A significant number of House Republicans oppose the measure, forcing Johnson to use an expedited process to bring the bill up for a vote. That process requires two-thirds of the House to vote for the measure for it to pass. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House passes $460bn spending package to fund the government through September and the Senate is expected to act before shutdown deadline

By Kevin Freking and The Associated Press

Security advisers gave a briefing

Fears about space-deployed Russian anti-satellite weapons spur vague warnings

By Matthew Lee, Kevin Freking, and others

House blocks effort to boost SALT-cap deduction

House scuttles hope of expanding tax deduction Republicans say penalizes married couples

By Kevin Freking and The Associated Press

FILE – Stockton, Calif. Mayor Kevin Lincoln speaks during a news conference in Stockton, Oct. 4, 2022. House Republicans may be critical of diversity and inclusion programs but they see recruiting women and minority candidates, along with veterans, as key to expanding their slim majority in November. Lincoln, an African-American and Hispanic mayor, is running for a House seat in California in November 2024. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

‘We beat 15 Democrats…with a woman, a minority candidate or a veteran’: Why Republicans are working to recruit diverse candidates as they criticize DEI

By Kevin Freking and The Associated Press

House Speaker Mike Johnson of La., walks on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Yuri Gripas)

House passes $79bn bill to increase child tax credits and boost three key tax breaks for business

By Kevin Freking and The Associated Press

FILE – The exterior of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building is seen in Washington, on March 22, 2013. Congress is racing to wind down a tax break meant to encourage businesses to keep workers on the payroll during the COVID-19 pandemic. What was expected to cost the government $55 billion has instead cost it nearly five times that amount as of July. Meanwhile, new claims pour into the IRS each week. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Lawmakers race to wind down COVID-era employee retention tax credit, seeing ‘almost universal fraud in the program’

By Kevin Freking, Fatima Hussein, and others

Jodey Arrington

‘We’re all in this boat together. The boat is sinking’: House GOP moves to tackle $34 trillion national debt with bipartisan commission

By Kevin Freking and The Associated Press

The U.S Capitol is seen on a sunny day in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Congress sends President Biden a short-term spending bill that would avert a looming government shutdown—but only until March

By Mary Clare Jalonick, Kevin Freking, and others

FILE – The U.S Capitol is seen on Jan. 8, 2024, in Washington. The chairmen of the top tax policy committees in Congress announced a bipartisan agreement Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, to enhance the child tax credit and revive a variety of tax breaks for businesses, a combination designed to attract support from lawmakers of both political parties. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Business tax breaks and an enhanced child tax credit are on the menu as bipartisan group of lawmakers push to pass bill before IRS season

By Kevin Freking and The Associated Press

FILE – House Speaker-elect Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., addresses members of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Oct. 25, 2023. Congressional leaders have reached an agreement on topline spending levels for the current fiscal year 2024 that could help avoid a partial government shutdown later this month. Funding is set to lapse Jan. 19 for some agencies and Feb. 2 for others. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Congressional leaders agree on spending levels for 2024 in big step to avoid government shutdown

By Kevin Freking and The Associated Press

Lloyd Austin

As Defense Secretary hospitalization stretches toward full week, source says his deputy didn’t know herself until Thursday

By Tara Copp, Colleen Long, and others

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA – NOVEMBER 11: A homeless man sleeps on the sidewalk outside the City Hall as APEC Economic Leaders’ Week begins as of today in San Francisco, California, United States on November 11, 2023. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)

The homeless crisis is getting worse with a 12% rise to a new to record high amid an ‘extraordinarily challenging’ rental market

By Kevin Freking and The Associated Press

Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., leaves the Capitol after being expelled from the House of Representatives, Friday, Dec. 1, 2023, in Washington. The House has voted to expel Santos following a critical ethics report on his conduct that included converting campaign donations for his own use, making him just the sixth member in the chamber’s history to be ousted by his colleagues. Expulsion requires support from two-third of the House. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Rep. George Santos becomes only the 6th Congress member in U.S. history to be expelled from his job by colleagues

By Kevin Freking and The Associated Press

UNITED STATES – NOVEMBER 7: Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., leaves a meeting of the House Republican Conference in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, November 7, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Serial liar Rep. George Santos won’t seek reelection after ethics report says he wired campaign donations to his personal bank account

By Kevin Freking and The Associated Press

George Santos

House Ethics panel finds ‘substantial evidence’ that George Santos broke the law, refers finding to DOJ

By Kevin Freking and The Associated Press