President Donald Trump has given Vice President JD Vance some of the toughest assignments in the White House. His allies say it’s a sign of trust, but the political risk is high for the young ...

The U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday passed a bill to fund government agencies through the remainder of the fiscal year ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune has deputized a folksy Louisiana ... Since then, Kennedy said, he has asked Trump and Vice President JD Vance “point blank” to start thinking about a plan ...

The heartfelt question a Columbia Rotarian asked South Carolina’s senior senator about the tensions between Donald Trump and ...

House Republicans muscled a stopgap funding measure to passage over Democratic opposition Tuesday, sending the bill to the ...

Johnson is often thought of as the accidental speaker. And it’s true that he was pulled out of quasi-obscurity after the caucus took down his predecessor Kevin McCarthy just 17 months ago. At the time ...

Emma O'Loughlen, a member of the Rapid City Youth Council and Rapid City Area Schools' student school board, shows a photo she took from the botanical gardens in the nation's capitol.

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.

The Senate passed a six-month spending bill Friday, hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic ...

Senate Democrats are attempting to balance rejecting the GOP-back stopgap measure with preventing the government from shutting down.