The federal government shut down at midnight after a stalemate in Congress between the Republicans and Democrats failed to reach a resolve. The sparring political parties are locked in a bitter ...

Since the shutdown standoff commenced, it was Republicans who were confident that Democrats would crack in the face of a GOP plan to vote again and again on the same bill while offering zero ...

Most Americans now believe Republicans, rather than Democrats, won the government shutdown fight, according to a new poll published Nov. 15. The CBS News and YouGov poll, conducted between Nov. 13 and ...

The U.S. House passed legislation Tuesday to avert a partial government shutdown and fund federal agencies through September, providing critical momentum as the measure now moves to the Senate, where ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson is heeding the demands of the more conservative wing of his Republican conference and has teed up a vote this week on a bill that would keep the federal government funded ...

As the government shutdown stretches over a month, one left-wing figure has emerged as House Republicans’ most-cited political boogeyman — and it’s not either of the top two Democrats in Congress.

A government shutdown fast approaching, Democratic and Republican congressional leaders left a White House meeting with President Donald Trump Monday afternoon showing no sign of compromising from ...

Now that the U.S. government shutdown is over, House and Senate Republicans say they will negotiate with Democrats on whether to extend COVID-era tax credits that help tens of millions of Americans ...

President Trump and Republican lawmakers took a victory lap on Tuesday after securing bipartisan support to reopen the government, ending the longest shutdown in U.S. history without ceding ground to ...

The government is a step closer to reopening and ending the longest shutdown in U.S. history after eight members of the Senate Democratic Caucus broke with the Democrats by voting to pass a bill that ...

WASHINGTON ‒ Eight Democratic Senate Caucus members broke from their ranks and joined with Republican senators to vote for a deal to reopen the government late on Nov. 9. The group includes Democrats ...

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