Conservative Rep. Thomas Massie criticized the spending levels in President Trump’s major tax and spending bill and called the White House’s claim that the bill would not raise the deficit “a joke.”

Live updates and the latest news as Trump hosts South Africa's president and the House Rules Committee meets on the Republicans' budget bill.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt began her press briefing on Thursday by addressing the fatal shooting of two Israeli Embassy staffers outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.

Speaker Mike Johnson delivered a major win for President Donald Trump early Thursday morning, quashing a conservative rebellion and driving a deeply divided House GOP to pass a bill that many of them were still pushing fiercely to change.

Donald Trump falsely accused South African President Cyril Ramaphosa of overseeing "genocide" against White people during a White House meeting.