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 ...

In the upper chamber, U.S. Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., has introduced the Withhold Member Pay During Shutdowns Act, which would ...

More Americans are turning to food banks to help fill the assistance gap, but administrators caution they aren't designed to ...

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

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

President Donald Trump says his administration is asking the court to clarify "how we can legally fund SNAP as soon 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 ...

A group of Republican Pennsylvania elected officials, including U.S. Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, are hosting a food drive in Lehigh ...

Obama once called shutdowns 'total irresponsibility,' now Democrats face same criticism in month-long government closure over ...

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

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

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.