Republican electoral wins in both the presidential race and the Senate are changing the game on government funding, as ...

the party’s longtime Senate leader, said a year ago, when a similar surrender by McCarthy cost him his job as speaker. Last ...

The 118th Congress is likely to have at least one final political standoff before the balance of power shifts, and it's over how to fund the federal government through September 2025.

Speaker Mike Johnson needed to convince former President Donald Trump that a shutdown could hurt their party on Election Day even as the Republican presidential nominee was itching for a fight ...

Republicans almost universally support the voting bill, but they say pushing the issue so intensely that it results in a shutdown would backfire on the party. “Everybody wants to go home and ...

The extension would give the Senate plenty of time to begin confirming Trump's Cabinet nominees and the House time to plot out maneuvers on tax legislation.

That is what shutdown means. That is not merely what it means to one party or the other. There had been well-established precedents under Democratic and Republican administration alike for the ...

Election Day is Tuesday, but in reality, that’s just the beginning of the process. It may take days to sort out who voters ...

House Republican leadership acquiesced on a budget stopgap funding the government through December, despite complaints from the party’s more conservative members. WASHINGTON (CN) — Congress appeared ...

Speaker Mike Johnson needed to convince former President Donald Trump that a shutdown could hurt their party on Election Day even as the Republican presidential nominee was itching for a fight with ...