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.D., closed his chamber for the weekend after bipartisan talks failed to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The crises at the heart of the government shutdown fight in Washington were coming to a head Saturday as ...

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 ...

But many of the top labor unions told ABC News that they continue to back the strategy taken up by Democrats, breaking with ...

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 ...

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.

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

As some of you may know, TPM has a long and illustrious history with the late former mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford. Back in 2013, Ford gained international infamy after he was filmed smoking crack. That ...

President Trump’s fresh push for Republicans to abandon the Senate filibuster is showing little sign of success, even as ...

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.