Orion Donovan Smith

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill. – The night before Valentine’s Day, Ricky Noschese and his wife Laurie left their jobs at a military and veterans hospital and stopped to pick up a heart-shaped chocolate cake to share with their three kids, a family tradition.

WASHINGTON – Rep. Michael Baumgartner will meet with his constituents in Spokane and Ritzville on Monday, a relatively rare move at a time when many of his fellow Republicans are avoiding in-person town halls in their districts.

WASHINGTON – Before the Senate voted on Friday to fund the government and avert a shutdown, Sen. Patty Murray made it known that she wasn’t happy.

WASHINGTON – Rep. Michael Baumgartner, R-Spokane, gave a bipartisan boost Tuesday to a bill that aims to help federal workers who have lost their jobs as part of the mass firing led by Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service.

WASHINGTON – House Republicans on Tuesday passed a bill that would fund the government through the end of September and bolster President Donald Trump’s effort to reshape the federal government, daring Sen. Patty Murray of Washington and her fellow Democrats in the Senate to endorse the GOP legislation or let the government run out of money at the end of the week.

When Maksym Bedenko arrived in the United States three years ago, he was told, “Welcome to safety.” If Bedenko, his wife and three children were forced out of the United States now, no one would say the same at the Ukrainian border.

WASHINGTON – Rep. Dan Newhouse, a Republican from Central Washington, introduced the resolution to rebuke a Texas congressman who was removed from the House chamber after repeatedly interrupting President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress earlier in the week.

WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to cut more than 80,000 jobs in the next six months as part of the Trump administration’s effort to dramatically downsize the federal workforce, according to an internal memo sent to staff on Tuesday.