Los demócratas ganaron el control de ambas cámaras del Congreso, poniendo fin al dominio republicano y abriendo una etapa de mayor escrutinio, bloqueos legislativos y negociación para Trump.

In the first two years of his second term, President Donald Trump has benefited from his Republican Party holding majorities in both chambers of Congress. Republican control of the White House and Congress allowed the party to pass a sweeping tax-cut measure in 2025. With party faithful running congressional committees, Trump and his administration have largely been insulated from tough scrutiny from such bodies.

In his second term, President Donald Trump so far has benefited from his Republican Party holding majorities in both houses of Congress, as he did in the top half of his first turn in the White House. When one party controls both the presidency and Congress, ambitious legislation can become law, as evidenced by the tax-cut measures enacted under Trump in 2017 and 2025. And with party faithful running congressional committees, a presidential administration is insulated, to some extent, from tough

Ahead of the US midterm elections on Nov. 3, national polls show that most Americans are deeply dissatisfied with the direction of the country.

Both parties are intensifying campaign spending in congressional districts that strongly favored President Donald Trump in the 2024 election, a sign of an expanding House map that could lift the range of anticipated Democratic gains on Nov. 3.

When the same party controls both the US presidency and Congress, ambitious legislation can happen. Look at the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, passed under Democrats in 2010, or the tax-cut measures that congressional Republicans enacted in 2017 and 2025.

Minnesota voters this week made history for women in politics.

The state is central to Democrats’ efforts to win a congressional majority.

The political forces that pulled the New York congressional delegation significantly further to the left last week are making a similar run at Colorado today in races up and down ballots.

Georgia House Republicans are shelving plans to redraw congressional and legislative districts, halting an effort that could have reshaped the state’s political maps for 2028.

Republicans have better odds of winning an additional House seat in Alabama after the US Supreme Court permitted the state to use a GOP-friendly district map that imperils one of the state’s two Black Democrats in Congress.

Louisiana’s Republican legislature gave final approval to a new congressional map that eliminates one of the state’s two Black-majority districts and would likely lead to a one-seat GOP pickup in the November election if upheld in court.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton won over voters Tuesday when he defeated Sen. John Cornyn in a historically expensive primary runoff, but now he’s working to convince K Street he’s a candidate worth investing in.

The South Carolina Senate nixed a proposal backed by President Donald Trump to enact more Republican-friendly congressional lines for the 2026 election.

The runoff pits a longstanding GOP senator against a Trump-backed ‘fighter’

The Virginia Supreme Court ruling throwing out a new, Democrat-backed congressional map delivered a fresh jolt to a nationwide battle that could determine which party controls the US House of Representatives.

Voters’ approval of a map redrawing Virginia’s congressional district boundaries in Democrats’ favor marked one of the most significant developments in a yearlong nationwide battle that could determine which party controls the US House of Representatives.

Gerrymandering is almost as old as the US republic itself. It’s the process of drawing electoral district lines in sometimes absurd ways to fortify one political party at the expense of another. Good-government groups say that gerrymandering lets politicians choose their constituents, rather than the other way around.