The Trump administration announced Tuesday it plans to withdraw the $3.5 billion the federal government allocated for California’s high-speed rail project. The U.S. Department of Transportation told California it planned to cancel almost $1 billion in funds, and it wanted the state to pay back the $2.5 billion already spent. Last week, California Gov.

A coalition of 16 states has officially filed a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration to pay for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. The lawsuit, filed Monday in San Francisco, argues that the president’s emergency declaration on Friday constituted an abuse of presidential power by circumventing Congress.

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump’s use of a national emergency declaration to access billions of dollars for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border has sparked fierce debate and legal challenges. Since the Friday declaration, Democrats on Capitol Hill have united in decrying the move. Sen.

WASHINGTON—State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Saturday she has withdrawn from consideration for the position of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. President Donald Trump named her as his top pick in December but had not officially submitted her nomination to the Senate.

WASHINGTON—Recent provocative comments by freshman congresswoman Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., illustrate a growing divide in the Democratic Party over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

WASHINGTON—Congress is set to vote Thursday on a budget bill including a border security compromise that would avert another partial government shutdown. A previous stopgap measure funded the government until midnight Friday. President Donald Trump’s approval is expected but is not guaranteed. He said Wednesday that he does not “want to see a shutdown.”

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump thanked Republicans on Tuesday for working toward a compromise on border security but didn’t say for certain whether he would sign the budget proposal to avert another partial government shutdown on Friday. The House and the Senate are expected to pass the funding plan after congressional negotiators reached an agreement Monday night.