One crisis looks to be avoided as a midnight deadline looms to keep the government funded amid economic uncertainty and a ...

Without Democratic votes to break a Senate filibuster, the GOP would not have been able to pass its stopgap spending bill and ...

After days of Democratic agonizing, the Senate voted to keep federal funds flowing through Sept. 30 just hours before a ...

House Republicans this week passed a government funding bill 217-213 without assistance from Democrats, losing only one vote from Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky.

President Trump assailed in biblical terms the “weaponization” of the Justice Department under his predecessor, Joseph R. Biden Jr., saying during a meandering speech in the Great Hall of the ...

President Donald Trump made what the White House called a “historic" visit to the Justice Department Friday to deliver remarks and rally support for his agenda. Meanwhile, his budget is being debated ...

It shouldn’t be news when a prominent elected official says it’s unfair to force women and girls to compete against transgender athletes. That seems to ...

The Senate has until midnight Friday to pass a bill to keep the government open. Meantime, President Donald Trump will deliver a speech on immigration at the Justice Department. Follow for live news ...

WASHINGTON (CN) — Concerns about a costly government shutdown spiked Wednesday afternoon after Senate Democrats signaled that they would filibuster a Republican ... major litigation and hot cases and ...

Democrats are stuck between a rock and a hard place as they must choose between shutting down the government or folding to ...

With the U.S. House and Senate under control of Republican majorities, Democratic members have limited ability to stop the Trump administration's acts.

Congressional Democrats may just surrender rather than risk catching blame for shutting down a government that Republicans ...