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

The letter comes amid weeks of intense debate in Washington centered around whether the anticipated disaster aid for ...

One of President Trump’s top aides said earlier Friday that any wildfire aid would come with strings attached.

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 ...

"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 ...