Republicans on the Senate Appropriations Committee endorsed the FBI’s plan spend money on a downtown D.C. headquarters rather than a suburban Maryland campus.

A key Senate committee on Thursday backed the Trump administration's bid to shift money previously set aside for a new FBI headquarters campus in the D.C. suburbs to instead move the agency to the Reagan Building.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is gaining some key backing on Capitol Hill from GOP senators who fear the repercussions if President Donald Trump follows through with threats to try and remove the politically independent central banker.

President Donald Trump accused the Federal Reserve under Chair Jerome Powell of "choking out the housing market". Trump, citing higher interest rates, said they are "making it difficult for people, especially the young,