Here's a look at what happened in the U.S. government this week: The Senate passed a six-month spending bill on Friday, hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic opposition to ...

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 ...

Congress avoided a government shutdown Friday evening, after the Senate passed legislation that funds the federal government ...

Many Democrats had agitated for the party to hang together and block the measure in defiance of President Trump, but the ...

President Trump continued to threaten tariffs as DOGE continued its cuts of the federal workforce. It was another ...

It’s that order that allows him to keep yo-yoing over tariffs on Mexico and Canada ... I don’t advocate for a filibuster lightly. But with the Constitution under attack, Democrats should ...

When Trump barred the Associated Press from most White House press events because it refused to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the ... That starts with holds and filibusters on every Trump nominee ...

after a section discussing fentanyl coming into the U.S. from Mexico and Canada. Senate Budget Committee chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., has been making that argument – that border funding ...

In the Senate, Republicans hold a three-seat majority but cannot overcome the 60-vote threshold to head off a filibuster ... tariff on goods from Canada and Mexico and an additional 10 percent ...

Kyrsten Sinema defended the Senate’s filibuster rule ... Trump wants total control of Mexico and Canada | Opinion Feds throw a monkey wrench into the plan to limp Lake Mead through 2026 ...

Six Senate Democrats and one independent have co-sponsored the legislation, meaning it has the 60 votes needed to clear the filibuster if ... % tariffs on Canada and Mexico this week in response ...