But Thune said nothing publicly until a POLITICO reporter asked him about the situation a day later. Trump is eager to threaten economic warfare as he tries to force concessions from Canada and ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to visit Panama — the country whose canal President Donald Trump has suggested he’d seize — as early as next week, according to three U.S. officials ...

Speaker Mike Johnson has launched a new effort intended to cast doubt on the findings of a now-disbanded congressional panel, charged with investigating President Donald Trump’s role in the ...

Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.), who spoke extensively about the issue at a POLITICO Playbook event on Wednesday morning. “I will never support a tax bill that does not lift a cap on SALT,” said Lawler.

Acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove on Tuesday called for a major redeployment of Justice Department resources to immigration enforcement, including redirecting anti-terrorism squads.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened massive tariffs and sanctions on Russian products if Vladimir Putin fails to make a deal to end the war in Ukraine. "Settle now, and STOP this ...

PEPFAR LEAD NAMED — A career federal employee will oversee PEPFAR, the global AIDS-fighting program, and global health security at the State Department for now, POLITICO’s Carmen Paun reports.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk poured cold water Wednesday on a landmark half-a-trillion dollar artificial intelligence (AI) initiative trumpeted by U.S. President Donald Trump. His criticism marks an ...

Ankush Khardori is a senior writer for POLITICO Magazine and a former federal prosecutor at the Department of Justice, where he specialized in financial fraud and white-collar crime. He has also ...

Rachael Bade is POLITICO's Capitol Hill bureau chief and senior Washington columnist. She is a former co-author of POLITICO Playbook and co-author of "Unchecked: The Untold Story Behind Congress's ...

Politico global editor-in-chief John F. Harris argued in a new piece that President Donald Trump’s second victory proves that he has dominated American politics so thoroughly that he will likely ...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday granted a pardon to Ross William Ulbricht, the imprisoned creator of a dark web marketplace for drugs and other illicit products whose case had become a cause ...