Speaker Mike Johnson is encouraging all Louisiana high school students with a passion for art, photography, or design to participate in the 2025 Congressional Art Competition. The annual competition showcases students’ artwork in our nation’s capital.

The winning artist will be recognized at an award ceremony in Washington, D.C., during the summer. Second and third-place selections will be displayed in Speaker Johnson’s congressional offices. All winners will be honored at an award reception in Louisiana’s 4th Congressional District office.

Federal agencies told to implement transgender bathroom ban as Trump's DEI attacks continue - This week, Trump signed three executive orders damaging transgender rights, such as one intended to limit

They know the impact of this uncertainty on their constituency, but they also don’t want to be seen as crossing El Caudillo del Mar-A-Lago in public.

House Speaker Mike Johnson has formed a select subcommittee to further investigate the Jan. 6, 2021, assaults on the U.S. Capitol, while Rep. Barry Loudermilk has released an interim report on the

Earlier that day, President Donald Trump threatened to implement a 25% tariff on all U.S. imports from Colombia, the South American nation that is the world’s third-largest supplier of coffee. The tax would double a week later, Trump said, if Colombian President Gustavo Petro didn’t agree to the details of a migrant deportation plan.

For a writer on politics and policy, the Johnson-Scalise-Cassidy permutations present a delectable feast. The most immediately pressing circumstance, though, is local. In the past four or five years,

But there’s no doubt that a two-time president who has referred to himself “Mr. Tariff” is a fan of taxing imports, a tactic that was widely used in the country’s first century before falling out of favor after World War II.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday backed the Trump administration’s decision to offer buyouts to federal workers who do not plan to return to the office, telling reporters that “drastic

The Laken Riley Act was named for a Georgia nursing student who was killed in 2024 while out for a run by a Venezuelan national in the U.S. illegally.

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Louisiana leaders at the federal, state and local level reacted to President Donald Trump’s suggestion that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) be abolished. Last week, just days after he was inaugurated Trump made headlines with his stance on FEMA.

Both government agencies and nonprofits in Louisiana scrambled to understand what Trump's order pausing federal grants and loans.