Get the latest news on the transition to the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump and a new Congress.

Extending all of the 2017 tax law could add close to $5 trillion to the national debt. To offset the cost, Trump and Republicans are considering these policies.

Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s rotating Chair, took the opportunity in her new year message to boast of Huawei’s work with 3,000 universities in 110 countries and regions.

House Speaker Mike Johnson’s allies are leaning into a key argument in a bid to avoid a chaotic floor fight over the gavel on Friday: A vote against Johnson could delay the finalization of Donald Trump’s White House win.

All politicians promise things they cannot deliver. But in Trump’s case, he has promised everything to everyone, and then some. His style of persuasive bombast and aggression led half the country to take him at his word and vote for him. But the good ’ol boy from Alabama and a Silicon Valley techie are miles apart in just about everything, and someone is sure to feel aggrieved when promise books are finally balanced.

McConnell is set to step down as the longest-serving Senate leader. Experts say he made the chamber into a battlefield.