The Senate has until midnight Friday to pass a bill to keep the government open. Meantime, President Donald Trump will deliver what the White House calls a law-and-order speech on Friday at the ...

Congress has been unable to pass the annual appropriations bills designed to fund the government, so they've resorted to passing short-term extensions instead.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has managed to do the impossible: unite almost the entire left (against him).

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and House Democratic leadership are not changing their stance on the GOP-led stopgap funding bill, even after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) ...

President wants to invoke wartime Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to carry out mass deportations - President’s chaotic trade war ...

As Republicans brand the impending lapse in government funding the “Schumer Shutdown,” hundreds of thousands of federal ...

President Trump continued to threaten tariffs as DOGE continued its cuts of the federal workforce. It was another consequential and news-packed week in Trump's presidency.

The U.S. Senate on Friday was poised to pass a stopgap spending bill and avert a partial government shutdown, after Democrats ...

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters after a Senate policy luncheon on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, March 11, 2025, in ...

Former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson, a political legend whose quick wit bridged partisan gaps in the years before today’s political ...

A House measure seeking to reduce financial strain on construction contractors made additional headway in the legislature ...