Both Sen. Angela Alsobrooks and Rep. Steny Hoyer had contentious exchanges on Wednesday with Kennedy, the Health and Human Services secretary. He testified before two committees: the House Appropriations Subcommittee that oversees health and human services and the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee.

In back-to-back Capitol Hill hearings, Kennedy touched on abortion access, vaccines, measles, research, mental health and opioids.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is testifying before Congress for the first time as health secretary on Wednesday. He has been grilled over President Trump’s cuts to public health agencies and research funding.

As DHS Secretary Kristi Noem defends a proposed budget increase, lawmakers raise alarms about significant cuts to FEMA during the upcoming hurricane season.

Senior Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee were caught off guard by Medicaid provisions in their own bill.

Cortez railed against her Republican colleagues for making a “terribly disrespectful comment” in a late-night Medicaid debate, according to a report from Politico. The incident happened around 3am Wednesday as the House Energy and Commerce panel began

Secretary Kristi Noem came under fire from House Democrats while testifying before the House Homeland Security Committee on her department's 2026 budget on Wednesday.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem testified before the House of Representatives on Wednesday. The leader of the Trump administration's deportation push had a lot to answer for. In a hearing before the House Homeland Security Committee,

New York state Gov. Kathy Hochul plans to testify at a congressional panel next month about the state’s immigration sanctuary policies. The Republican-led House Oversight Committee has called on Hochul to appear with fellow Democrats, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker.