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 ...

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

"Outrage erupts as Trump's White House releases tone-deaf meme, sparking controversy and embarrassment for JD Vance. Find out what ...

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 ...

In a post on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump urged Republicans to scrap the Senate filibuster to end the ...

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 ...

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

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.

It was completely predictable that President Donald Trump would call on Senate Republicans to end the custom of the filibuster, which has bedeviled majority parties for years.

Trump mentioned in his Truth Social post that eliminating the filibuster would help Republicans get the “best Judges” and the ...