US Senate passes bill to avert shutdown, House Democrats turn on Schumer The U.S. Senate on Friday passed a stopgap spending bill, averting a partial government shutdown, after Democrats backed ...

A federal judge says President Donald Trump overstepped his authority in freezing almost all spending on U.S. humanitarian ...

The United States Senate Banking Committee elected to advance the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act in an 18-6 vote. None of the amendments proposed by ...

It appears to be the first time a federal judge has acted to constrain Elon Musk, a top adviser to President Trump. The judge ...

Even Congress, supposedly a coequal branch of government, is beholden to Musk’s tempers and tweets. At a talk at Georgetown University’s Psaros Center on Tuesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson ...

Nineteen members of Congress died in office in the 2000s, and 16 died in office in the 1990s, according to data from a ...

Senate Democrats’ already difficult 2026 map ... There might be more departures for Democrats to come, though in much bluer states: Sen. Dick Durbin is on retirement watch in Illinois and ...

Without Democratic votes to break a Senate filibuster, the GOP would not have been able to pass its stopgap spending bill and ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) announced Friday afternoon that the Senate would begin voting immediately on a ...

President Donald Trump has signed into law legislation funding the government through the end of September, ending the threat ...

House Democrats are furious at their fellow Democrats in the Senate for supporting a Republican spending bill, saying Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and other aisle-hopping senators are ...

WASHINGTON: The United States government ... deadline to fund the government or allow it to start winding down, the Senate is set for a crunch vote ahead of the midnight cut-off on a Trump ...