While trust in government has been low for decades, the current measure is one of the lowest in the nearly seven decades since the question was first asked by the National Election Study, and it is ...

Wednesday may be the beginning of the end for America’s longest government shutdown. A late-night Monday Senate vote sent a reopening bill to the U.S. House of Representatives and would fund all of ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Attention to individual acts of market intervention, however, has so far failed to fully understand the Trump administration’s actions as ...

• Shutdown over: The federal government is reopening its agencies after President Donald Trump signed the House-passed funding package last night to end the record 43-day shutdown. Before the bill to ...

Anthony, a volunteer at the St. Benedict Church food pantry in Philadelphia, hands out dried fruit to a client during an Oct. 31, 2025, distribution that took place hours ahead of the scheduled Nov. 1 ...

As the longest government shutdown in history continues, the Trump administration informed U.S. District Judge John J. McConnell, Jr. of Rhode Island that it would pay out 50% of the SNAP benefits in ...

Now in its 36th day, pain points for Americans continue to mount. The government shutdown on Wednesday entered its 36th day, officially becoming the longest shutdown in U.S. history. That means the ...

As the government shutdown entered its first full week, emotions across the country ranged from uneasy to unconcerned. A prayer among leaders of Hemingway Memorial A.M.E. Church in District Heights, ...

On Saturday, the United States will mark one month since the federal government officially shut down — one of the longest and most disruptive shutdowns in the nation’s history. What began as a ...

The standoff began in late September as lawmakers faced a deadline to fund the government by the start of a new fiscal year on Oct. 1. House Republicans passed a short-term funding measure on Sept. 19 ...

WASHINGTON — The lengthy standoff between President Donald Trump and congressional Democratic leaders is now the longest government shutdown in American history. On Wednesday, the shutdown enters its ...

President Donald Trump has signed a government funding bill that ends a record 43-day shutdown. The disruption caused financial stress for federal workers who went without paychecks, stranded scores ...