The impacts on basic needs – food and medical care – underscored how the impasse is hitting homes across the United States.

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Plans by the Trump administration to freeze payments to SNAP on Saturday were halted by federal judges, but the delay in payouts will still likely leave millions of people short on their grocery ...

The U.S. House has not met for legislative business in more than six weeks, while U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S ...

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) on Friday criticized his fellow Democrats for repeatedly voting against legislation to reopen the government — a move that has put aid programs such as the Supplemental ...

In the upper chamber, U.S. Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., has introduced the Withhold Member Pay During Shutdowns Act, which would cut the annual pay of all members of Congress by the number of days spent ...

The pain of the shutdown is being felt by millions of other Americans as the federal government enters Day 32 of a funding squabble.

The 2025 shutdown is a few days shy of the record set by the 2018-2019 shutdown, which lasted 34 days and took place during President Trump’s first administration.

The crises at the heart of the government shutdown fight in Washington were coming to a head Saturday as the federal food assistance ...

Senate Republicans have long resisted the temptation of going nuclear on the filibuster, a move more often made by Senate ...

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