President Donald Trump faced Republican defections on a series of split votes this week, but his willingness to call out members of his own party convinced some wavering lawmakers to stay in line.

The first week of January was a busy one in Congress, where the GOP confronted a newly slim margin and divisions over health care and foreign policy.

House Republicans responded to an attorney general's opinion that they can't legally cut programs unilaterally by suing multiple state agencies.

The president reportedly made a “profanity-laced” call to the vulnerable Republican senator on Thursday, sources told The Hill. Collins was one of five GOP senators to join Democrats in advancing a resolution on the War Powers Act from committee to the floor, which passed in a 52-47 vote earlier in the day.

The forum was shadowed by the race-shifting events of the past week, from Walz announcing he is no longer running for a third term, to the federal government stepping up its investigative efforts into Minnesota’s massive fraud scandal, to the killing of Minneapolis resident Renee Good by a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.

N.C., made clear that the holds were not about the ICE-related shooting in Minnesota, but instead over two ignored invitations for the head of DHS to appear before the Senate.

Four months away from the Ohio primary election, Republicans' battle for Butler County Commissioner has already turned nasty.

"Republicans should be ashamed of the Senators that just voted with Democrats in attempting to take away our Powers to fight."

The Senate will vote next week on a measure that would block Trump from using military force “within or against Venezuela” without approval from Congress.

House Republicans bucked GOP leaders on Jan. 8 by voting to restore and extend the Affordable Care Act premium tax credits for three years.