White House and Democratic lawmakers weigh in on President Donald Trump's Wednesday night primetime TV year-end address, during which the president highlighted what he sees as his achievements after almost a year in office; Democrats make a last-ditch effort to get a vote to extend expiring Affordable Care Act health insurance premium subsidies; Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announces new rules that aim to prohibit gender-affirming care for transgender youth; Presi...
Dec 19, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Four House Republicans sign a discharge petition introduced by Democrats to force a vote an extension of expiring Affordable Care Act enhanced premium tax credits in defiance of the wishes of Republican Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA); House votes on a bill to criminalize providing gender-affirming care to minors; House votes on bill to prohibit the President Donald Trump from striking alleged drug smuggling boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific and carrying out military strikes against Venezue...
Dec 18, 2025•1 hr 4 min
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) says there will not be a vote on an amendment to extend expiring Affordable Care Act enhanced premium subsidies as part of a House Republican health care bill this week, and some moderate Republicans are not happy about it; Labor Department releases a jobs report that was delayed due to the federal government shutdown that shows 105,000 jobs lost in October, then in November, 64,000 jobs gained and the unemployment rate rising to 4.6 percent; Vice President JD Vance t...
Dec 16, 2025•1 hr 1 min
Congress is back to work today, and health care remains the top issue. The House is expected to vote this week on an extension of the expiring health care tax credits along with Republicans’ alternative proposal… Over in the Senate, debate continues on the annual Defense policy bill… And reaction continues to the two mass shootings that happened over the weekend on opposite sides of the world….Authorities continue to work to find the suspect who opened fire at Brown University…killing at least t...
Dec 15, 2025•33 min
First: A conversation with National Farmers Union's Mike Stranz – about the state of the U.S. agriculture industry, including the impact of the Trump tariffs and the recently announced aid package to farmers. Then: Career Education Colleges and Universities President & CEO Jason Altmire discusses a new poll that examines Americans' declining attitudes on the value of a four-year college degree, and educational alternatives to it. And finally: Author, law professor, and ABC News legal contrib...
Dec 13, 2025•28 min
Kilmar Abrego Garcia checks in at an Immigration & Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore, under protection from a judge's order not to be rearrested. He says he believes the injustice done to him by the Trump Administration will come to an end; House Republican leadership says a vote to extend Affordable Care Act enhanced premium subsidies may happen next week. The tax credits are set to expire at the end of the month, raising costs for 20 million Americans; State legislators are pus...
Dec 12, 2025•59 min
Senate fails to advance both Democratic and Republican health care bills the sponsors say would address expected increase in costs for millions of Americans Affordable Care Act insurance at the end of the month when enhanced premium tax credits are set to expire; House passes a bill to reverse President Donald Trump's Executive Order limiting the collective bargaining rights of around one million federal workers in national security departments & agencies; Federal Emergency Management Agency...
Dec 12, 2025•1 hr
Federal Reserve cuts interest rates a quarter of a percentage point. We will hear from the Chair and President Donald Trump and speak with The Hill's Business Editor Sylvan Lane (4); Speaker Mike Johnson presents a range of health care reform bills to House Republicans that could be voted on soon, but not among them is the Democrat's priority of extending expiring Affordable Care Act insurance premium enhanced subsidies; House passes the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA); Supreme ...
Dec 10, 2025•1 hr
President Donald Trump travels to Pennsylvania for a rally to talk about rising costs and his economic agenda; Senate Republicans say they will offer an alternative health care plan involving personal Health Savings Accounts when the Senate Democratic bill to extend expiring Obamacare health insurance enhanced premium supports comes up for a vote on Thursday; Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) signs a bill to provide greater legal protections to immigrants, as the federal immigration officials double down ...
Dec 10, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Congress is back to work this week…And on the Senate's agenda—a vote on extending health care tax credits past the end of the month…Democrats want a simple three-year extension of the tax credits…Republicans oppose that but have yet to put out a plan of their own… The tax credits help millions of Americans pay for insurance on state-run exchanges…We'll hear what Sens. Thune and Schumer had to say about it on the floor earlier this afternoon… Also today, the White House announced a 12 billion dol...
Dec 08, 2025•46 min
In this weekend's episode, three segments from this past week's Washington Journal. First: President Trump stuns House Republicans with a surprise pardon this week for Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar – whose Laredo seat Republicans were hoping to pick up in the midterms. We'll get the scoop from Gabby Birenbaum Washington Correspondent for the Texas Tribune. Then: A conversation with Shawn VanDiver -- founder and president of #AfghanEvac --a nonprofit run by American veterans helping to resettle Af...
Dec 06, 2025•29 min
President Donald Trump attends the 2026 World Cup Draw at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC with the leaders of co-hosts Mexico & Canada. The three talking about what it means to co-host the world's largest sports tournament; President Trump receives the inaugural peace prize from world soccer's governing body, FIFA; Trump Administration releases a National Security Strategy that calls for a “readjustment” of the US military presence in the Western Hemisphere to fight migration, drug traf...
Dec 06, 2025•54 min
A 30 year-old man from Woodbridge, Virginia is arrested and charged in the FBI's investigation of pipe bombs placed outside the Republican and Democratic party headquarters on the eve of the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol; A Navy admiral tells lawmakers Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not issue a "kill them all" order against a suspected drug-carrying boat in the Caribbean Sea near Venezuela in September, but Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), Intelligence Committee ranking member, says the v...
Dec 04, 2025•59 min
The Republican candidate wins the Tennessee 7th Congressional District special election by a comfortable margin, but not as big as President Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election. We get reaction from party leaders in Congress about what this may mean for the 2026 midterm elections; President Trump grants a full pardon to Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) and his wife Imelda, who were facing bribery charges; President Trump announces of a roll back of Biden-era vehicle fuel economy st...
Dec 03, 2025•54 min
President Donald Trump holds a Cabinet meeting at the White House, where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he did not see any survivors in the water when a second strike was ordered and launched on a boat alleging carrying illegal drugs in the Caribbean Sea in September, and President Trump says he does not want Somali immigrants in the United States because they add little to the country, rely on government safety net benefits and complain too much. He calls Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) 'garbage'. ...
Dec 02, 2025•56 min
The White House confirmed President Trump will meet today with his national security team to discuss Venezuela as his administration intensifies its pressure campaign on the country…The meeting comes as lawmakers from both parties voice concerns over reports of a possibly unlawful follow-up strike on an alleged drug vessel in the Caribbean that killed two survivors…We'll hear from the president, Senate leaders Thune and Schumer on this topic coming up… Congress returned today from the Thanksgivi...
Dec 01, 2025•41 min
In this weekend's episode, three segments from this past week's Washington Journal. First: As the holiday shopping season kicks off – a discussion about the U-S economy and the "affordability" crisis with Heather Long - columnist and Chief Economist for Navy Federal Credit Union. Then: Pollster and strategist Frank Luntz discusses what his focus groups are telling him about the mood of the nation this Thanksgiving. Plus: From threatening broadcasters to reviewing multi-billion-dollar media merge...
Nov 27, 2025•30 min
Two National Guard troops patrolling Washington, DC not far from the White House are shot. A suspect, also shot is in custody; Judge in Georgia dismisses the election interference criminal case against President Donald Trump and co-defendants at the request of the prosecutor. We will talk with USA Today Justice Department reporter Aysha Bagchi (11); Vice President JD Vance and his family serve an early Thanksgiving meal to U.S. troops at Ft. Campbell on the Kentucky/Tennessee border; almost two ...
Nov 26, 2025•52 min
Two days before Thanksgiving, President Donald Trump pardons two turkeys, named Gobble & Waddle, jokes that former President Joe Biden's turkey pardons are invalid due to his use of an autopen, and says food prices are coming down; Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) announces she will not run for a fourth term in 2026; Attorney General Pam Bondi says the federal law enforcement surge in Memphis, Tennessee has been a success in drastically reducing crime; Ukrainian President Zelensky says...
Nov 25, 2025•46 min
The Pentagon announced today it is investigating Arizona Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly over possible breaches of military law…It comes after the former Navy pilot along with a five other Democratic lawmakers called for troops to disobey illegal orders in a social media post last week… AND after President Trump ramped up the rhetoric by accusing the lawmakers of sedition “punishable by DEATH….”White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt talked about it late this afternoon…We'll hear what she and Se...
Nov 24, 2025•34 min
In this weekend's episode, three segments from this past week's Washington Journal. First: A discussion with Investigative journalist Dave Levinthal about a new push to ban individual stock trading by Members of Congress – and whether HE thinks it'll finally pass. Then: Brad Bowman of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies takes a closer look at the Trump administration's promised sale of F-35s to Saudi Arabia – and how it COULD impact the balance of power in the Mideast. Finally: It's been o...
Nov 22, 2025•33 min
President Trump and incoming New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani met at the White House today…It's their first meeting since the New York city election earlier this month…And it comes after months of public hostility between the two…with the president calling the mayor-elect a communist and even threatening to arrest and deport him…While the mayor-elect himself has accused the president of acting like an authoritarian…We'll hear part of what they said to reporters coming up… Ukrainian President V...
Nov 21, 2025•41 min
Former President George W. Bush says at the funeral service for his Vice President Dick Cheney that Cheney was "totally devoted to protecting the United States and its interests", while daughter Liz Cheney says her father knew "that bonds of party must always yield to the single bond we share as Americans"; President Donald Trump in online posts calls for six House & Senate Democrats to be arrested, tried and hanged for "seditious behavior at the highest level" after they urged U.S. military...
Nov 20, 2025•52 min
