Secret Service has told Congress that it has already boosted Donald Trump’s security, but House lawmakers want it put into law.
Democrats’ first attempt at responding to the back-to-back mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, Texas, has failed in the Senate.
The Senate has blocked a bill to bolster background checks as votes on gun control got underway in the Senate.
The Senate will vote Monday night on four gun control measures - two sponsored by Republicans, two by Democrats. All are expected to fail in a bitterly divided Congress.
A Democratic senator who mourned the loss of 20 children in his home state of Connecticut four years ago waged a nearly 15-hour filibuster into the early hours of Thursday, demanding votes on gun control measures just days after a mass shooting at a Florida nightclub.
Two senators are proposing to raise federal gasoline and diesel taxes for the first time in more than two decades as Congress struggles with how to pay for highway and transit programs.