#US Congress

Representative Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, speaks at an FBI oversight hearing in Washington in July 2023.

House leadership

House Republicans pick Jim Jordan over Steve Scalise, 106-73, to lead them in the next Congress

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in his official Department of Defense portrait, taken in January 2025.

House votes 211-204 to send the Hegseth impeachment resolution to committee, shelving it for this Congress

The official portrait of President Donald Trump, photographed at the White House in June 2026.

Trump says his deportation drive was "too tough" and that it cost him in the midterms

The official portrait of Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House of Representatives, taken in July 2024.

Republican leadership

Mike Johnson gives up the House Republican leadership, and Scalise and Jordan line up to replace him

The United States Capitol in Washington, seen in June 2024.

Midterm elections

Democrats win the House and flip Senate seats in Texas and South Carolina, with Senate control still undecided

President Donald Trump and Brazilian Senator Flávio Bolsonaro in the Oval Office in May 2026, in a photograph Trump posted on Truth Social.

Congressional oversight

Twenty-five House Democrats press Rubio on how Brazil's Flávio Bolsonaro got a US visa after leaving under a court order