National Journal

1 week ago | nationaljournal.com | Casey Wooten |Cristina Maza |Philip Athey

Republicans want to allocate billions of dollars to a controversial missile defense project that could upend decades of U.S. nuclear deterrence. As Congress begins work on a massive budget reconciliation package designed to cut trillions in federal spending, House Republicans released a proposal to allocate nearly $25 billion as a down payment for a program known as the Golden Dome.

1 week ago | nationaljournal.com | Savannah Behrmann |Charlie Cook |Kirk Bado

Tim Kaine no longer wears his Senate member lapel pin to work. Instead, the Democrat has been sporting one with Virginia’s seal, which he said serves as a daily, physical reminder to be “on guard against tyranny.”“It's a woman emphasizing virtue, standing atop a monarch who's been knocked over and his crown has fallen off. [It's] the only state that has a motto that, instead of being a positive celebration, is more of a warning or rebuke,” Kaine said.

1 week ago | nationaljournal.com | Nicholas Anastacio |Nicholas Anastácio |Savannah Behrmann

The Latino vote remains a top target for both parties on next year’s Senate map after Republicans made inroads with this key group in the past two election cycles. In battleground states like Georgia, Michigan, and North Carolina, a couple thousand votes could make or break an election.

1 week ago | nationaljournal.com | Savannah Behrmann |Cristina Maza

A U.S. citizen is stuck in Iran with her 3-year-old child, separated from her husband and parents, while the Trump administration vets the toddler for national security concerns. The family has now filed a lawsuit in a federal court in Los Angeles because the Iranian-born boy, whose mother is a U.S. citizen and whose father is a U.S. resident and green-card holder, has been asked to submit information to the U.S. government about his past employment history and whether he has spent time in jail.

2 weeks ago | nationaljournal.com | Savannah Behrmann |Charlie Cook |Philip Athey |Erin Durkin

Sen. Jon Husted wants Washington to take a lesson from his home state and share it with the rest of the country: Make AI available to every school child in America. But the Ohio Republican isn’t encouraging more AI in schools just to help with the lesson plans. He argues it’s crucial to ensure the future of America’s global competitiveness. Less than four months on the job, Ohio’s former lieutenant governor has emerged as one of Capitol Hill’s biggest champions of AI.