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Senate Armed Services Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., has not been shy about disagreeing with some of Trump's national security policies.

Congress

Republican defense hawks broke with Trump repeatedly in 2025

Armed Services leaders tilt towards interventionist policies at odds with GOP's ‘America First’ wing

By Caroline Coudriet
Posted December 26, 2025 at 7:00am

President Donald Trump listens during a ceremony for the presentation of the Mexican Border Defense Medal in the White House on Dec. 15, 2025.

Policy

The whoppers of 2025

By FactCheck.org
Posted December 25, 2025 at 8:00am
A worker stocks Angus beef top-sirloin filets in the meat section of a grocery store in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 25.

Congress

Lawmakers push to reimburse food stamp benefits lost to theft

By Olivia M. Bridges
Posted December 26, 2025 at 7:00am
Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., arrives at a closed Senate Armed Services Committee briefing on naval aviation mishaps in the Capitol Visitor Center on Dec. 2.

Congress

Congress inches toward reclaiming war powers with AUMF repeals

By Rebecca Kheel
Posted December 24, 2025 at 7:00am
An artist sells prints of Donald Trump riding an elephant outside the Capital One Arena on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20. Cold temperatures forced the Inauguration to move indoors. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Heard on the Hill

Roll Call’s 2025 feature photos of the year

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted December 16, 2025 at 6:00am
Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz, R-Texas, says he will propose legislation that would take on government pressure on social media.

Can Congress find a path on government ‘jawboning’ limits?

By Allison Mollenkamp
Posted December 24, 2025 at 7:00am
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, arrives for Senate Republicans’ lunch meeting in the Capitol on Dec. 9.

States eager for final decisions on $50B health care fund

By Sandhya Raman
Posted December 24, 2025 at 7:00am

2026 State Legislative Sessions Calendar

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted October 3, 2025 at 10:26am
Residents and protesters clash with federal agents in the East Side neighborhood on Oct. 14 in Chicago.

Supreme Court sides with Chicago over Trump in dispute over Guard

By Michael Macagnone
Posted December 23, 2025 at 4:17pm
Wyoming Rep. Harriet Hageman, seen outside a Dec. 17 meeting of the House Republican Conference in the U.S. Capitol, is running for Senate. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Wyoming Rep. Harriet Hageman launches campaign for Senate

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted December 23, 2025 at 12:43pm
Then-Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., leaves the Senate luncheons in the Capitol on March 8, 2022.

Former Nebraska Sen. Sasse faces terminal diagnosis

By Nick Eskow
Posted December 23, 2025 at 12:24pm

Read the latest issue

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted March 23, 2020 at 11:36am
Workers adjust the name of the “John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts" on Dec. 19 in Washington, after the board of trustees voted in what they say was a unanimous decision to add Donald Trump's name to the center.

Democratic lawmaker sues over renaming of Kennedy Center

By Michael Macagnone
Posted December 23, 2025 at 11:52am
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, left, and Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrive for a briefing on Syria in the Capitol Visitor Center on Oct. 17, 2019.

Defense policy law takes aim at the politics of security details

By Mark Satter
Posted December 23, 2025 at 7:00am
President Donald Trump, flanked by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, announces a new class of warships at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., on Monday.

Trump announces new class of ‘battleships’ named after himself

By Rebecca Kheel
Posted December 22, 2025 at 7:03pm
George Conway, here at the White House in 2017, is running for New York's 12th District.

Trump critic George Conway files for Nadler’s New York seat as a Democrat

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted December 22, 2025 at 4:31pm
President Donald Trump waves to onlookers Saturday as the armored presidential Cadillac limousine returns to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

Domestic, global crises follow Trump to South Florida links amid late-year slump

By John T. Bennett
Posted December 22, 2025 at 1:13pm
Wyoming Sen. Cynthia Lummis will not run for reelection next year. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Wyoming Sen. Cynthia Lummis will not run for reelection in 2026

By Daniela Altimari and Jackie Wang
Posted December 19, 2025 at 6:24pm
New York Rep. Elise Stefanik is ending her campaign for governor. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Rep. Elise Stefanik ends campaign for New York governor, will retire in 2026

By Andrew Menezes and Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted December 19, 2025 at 5:22pm
From left, Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., hold their news conference with survivors of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in November outside the Capitol.

Justice Department releases Epstein investigative documents

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted December 19, 2025 at 4:06pm, Updated at 5:09pm
E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse in Washington

Judge points to Trump’s authority in challenge to H-1B visa hike

By Chris Johnson
Posted December 19, 2025 at 3:44pm
Sunlight hits the Capitol Dome at sunrise on Jan. 2, 2025.

Take 2025 — Congressional Hits and Misses

By Chris Hale
Posted December 19, 2025 at 3:22pm
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks Tuesday during a news conference in the Capitol on the deadline for the release of the Epstein files.

Justice Department faces deadline day on Epstein files law

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted December 19, 2025 at 5:00am, Updated at 9:48am
The Washington Monument is seen at sunset on Sunday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | December 12-18, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted December 19, 2025 at 9:24am
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said it would take "a Christmas miracle" to get anything done in Congress to prevent the expiration of expiring health care subsidies.

Congress leaves for Christmas, closes the books on 2025

By Niels Lesniewski and Aris Folley
Posted December 19, 2025 at 6:30am
Rep. Seth Magaziner, D-R.I., at front, talks to reporters outside a House Administration Committee hearing on congressional stock trading on Nov. 19, joined by Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., and Tim Burchett, R-Tenn. They were all part of a working group that unveiled a bipartisan stock-trading ban earlier this year.

Cracks emerge as members of Congress try to curb their own stock trading

By Nina Heller
Posted December 18, 2025 at 5:10pm
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro speaks during a news conference in July.

Navarro argues contempt of Congress conviction at appeals court

By Michael Macagnone
Posted December 18, 2025 at 4:24pm
President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House on Wednesday night. (Doug Mills/Pool/Getty Images)

Trump bucked tradition with partisan end-of-year address

By John T. Bennett
Posted December 18, 2025 at 4:16pm
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is seen on descent into Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Nov. 4, 2020.

Despite statute, White House claims board adds Trump’s name to Kennedy Center

By John T. Bennett
Posted December 18, 2025 at 2:53pm, Updated at 3:36pm

At the races: Trump the vote

By Daniela Altimari, Niels Lesniewski and Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted December 18, 2025 at 3:14pm
Attorney General Pamela Bondi testifies in June before a House Appropriations subcommittee on the Justice Department's fiscal 2026 budget request.

Appropriators backed a crime-fighting unit. DOJ closed it anyway.

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted December 18, 2025 at 7:00am

Capitol Ink | Merry Congress

By R.J. Matson
Posted December 18, 2025 at 7:00am
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., enters the House chamber after his election to the speakership for the 119th Congress on Jan. 3. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Roll Call’s 2025 news photos of the year

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted December 18, 2025 at 6:00am
Exterior view of an immigration detention center in Elizabeth, N.J., in March.

Judge halts DHS policy on oversight visits to ICE detention facilities

By Chris Johnson
Posted December 17, 2025 at 6:05pm
Alaska pastor Matt Schultz, left, and Iowa state Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott are seeking House seats, while Texas state Rep. James Talarico is running for Senate.

Candidates from the clergy see role for religion in Democratic Party

By Daniela Altimari
Posted December 17, 2025 at 5:52pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, pictured during a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center on Tuesday, has spoken about Republicans defying historical midterm trends.

The 2026 midterms are at a crossroads

By Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted December 17, 2025 at 5:35pm

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