Congressional leaders have a deal on a short-term spending bill that will fund federal agencies for about three months.

As a lifelong Reds fan, it's difficult not to see the parallels between a floundering Major League team and a Congress that ...

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Former President Donald Trump, who had reportedly been urging House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to let the shutdown happen ...

The government shutdown deadline is less than a week away. The Republican Conference’s latest plan is to pass a clean stopgap ...

House Democratic leadership is advising its members that Republicans' bill to ward off a government shutdown for three months ...

The House speaker has received frequent MAGA pushback while negotiating deals to get bills through the lower chamber.

The man charged in connection with an apparent assassination attempt against Donald Trump wrote a note declaring that he did ...

Purism only works when you control both halves of Congress and the White House. If you don’t have full control, you have to ...

Trump wanted to force a shutdown over the SAVE Act. Top Republicans are ignoring him and will vote this week to fund the ...

Defying former president Donald Trump, the Republican-controlled House is expected to advance a bipartisan funding bill to keep federal agencies open.

The Wall Street Journal editors turned their newspaper’s attention to North Carolina last week. In a Sept. 19 article ...