House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had won over the right flank of his conference by promising at least $2 trillion in ...

Making Johnson’s positioning even more impossible ... “not that I recall.” Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) similarly asked Patel if he had ever discussed dismissing FBI members with President ...

Nearly three dozen Democratic senators, including Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff, have written a letter demanding an ...

Senate Republicans advanced their budget resolution after rejecting Democratic bids to protect climate programs. The House ...

Donald Trump is adamant about using recovery aid for the L.A. fires to make Democrats bow to his unrelated demands — so he ...

"California is the largest contributor of tax revenue to the federal treasury by far," Padilla wrote Jan. 27 on X. "In 2022 alone, California paid $83 billion more to the federal government than it ...

By almost any measure, California has lost clout in Congress in the last few years, with a lack of top leaders and committee leaders.

Trump's bogus claims about his popularity in the Golden State could be laughed off if he hadn't threatened tying wildfire ...

Alex Padilla, noting that one of his first ... wildfire aid should not come with conditions, as House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Trump have suggested. Trump has said that the Southern ...

Hundreds are also rallying in Washington, D.C., in support of USAID as the Trump administration seeks to dismantle the ...