By Jake The Senate passed a six-month spending bill Friday, dodging a government shutdown at the last minute despite sharp Democratic opposition. The bill…
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By Cullen McCue Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) lashed out at the Trump Administration, Republican Senators and their supporters after backing down on his…
By Chris Queen The House passed a spending bill Friday night that will fund the government through March 14, avoiding a shutdown. The bill passed…
By Sarah Anderson The United States is even closer to a partial government shutdown as a new spending bill, which was backed by President-elect Donald…
By Mary Rooke House Speaker Mike Johnson is promoting a pork-filled spending resolution that would give Congress more power and waste billions of taxpayer dollars,…
By Brooke Mallory The new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) leaders in Trump’s incoming administration, Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk, blasted House GOP leadership on…
By Sarah Arnold U.S. House leaders unveiled a bipartisan funding agreement on Sunday to avoid a government shutdown. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)…
By J.B. Shurk The House has a new speaker, and now attention returns to whether a government “shutdown” can be averted before November 17. If only the…
Many view his moves as a bid for attention ahead of 2026. By KIMBERLY LEONARD and MIA MCCARTHY MIAMI — When Reps. Matt Gaetz and Byron Donalds staked…
By Joan E Greve After leading a successful, bipartisan effort to avoid a government shutdown over the weekend, Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday was abruptly removed from his role…
By Nick Arama As we reported on Saturday, Rep. Janaal Bowman (D-NY) was caught on camera pulling a fire alarm while Democrats were trying to delay voting on…
By Matt Vespa The government shutdown has been averted. In a shocking move, Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s stopgap measure to keep Congress from shutting down passed…
By Nick Arama Joe Biden and the Democrats are playing this government shutdown game again. They want to keep spending and they don’t want to be…
By STEPHEN GROVES WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government is just days away from a shutdown that will disrupt many services, squeeze workers and roil politics as…
BY MICHAEL CANTRELL Sen. John Fetterman (D-Penn.), the man who I not-so-affectionately refer to as “Uncle Fester,” isn’t well known for doing anything that actually benefits…
By Marianna Sotomayor, Leigh Ann Caldwell , Paul Kane and Amy B Wang The prospect of a government shutdown escalated significantly Tuesday as House Republicans’ intraparty tensions again…
By RACHAEL BADE and MATT BERG Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he’d blame House Republicans for any government shutdown if they fail to pass spending legislation by…
By JORDAN DIXON-HAMILTON Key lawmakers on Tuesday announced that they had struck a deal on the framework for funding the government through the end of the…