The stalemate over a government funding bill on Capitol Hill threatens to lead to a shutdown and potential mass layoffs, adding pressure to an already tense situation.

Democrats have a good chance of winning the House and making gains in the Senate next November, so long as they don’t blow it ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune is rejecting Democratic demands on health care as unserious but says a government shutdown ...

Sonny Perdue and Nathan Deal switched from Democrat to Republican and became governors of Georgia. Geoff Duncan's switch from GOP to Dem may get him elected governor in 2026.

So far, the state’s nearly three-month budget impasse has cost Pennsylvania school districts almost $4 billion. That’s how ...

Usually during a shutdown, the government furloughs (temporarily lays off) employees, and then rehires them when a spending bill eventually passes. But according to NBC News, “the Trump administration ...

The four bills, however, are unlikely to receive a vote if ultimately successful in being sent to the Republican-led Senate.

Cracks are starting to form in the Senate Democratic caucus over whether to hold the line against a seven-week clean government funding stopgap passed by the House, according to Democratic ...

Like that one friend who repeatedly promises to quit drinking after just one last round, the American government is ...

California state lawmakers have ramped up efforts to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) in their latest session, putting the Golden State on a collision course with a Republican effort to ...

Just a few months ago, Republicans were riding high, giddy after having passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law. But as the saying goes, a few weeks can be an eternity in politics. And as ...

Democratic leaders dismissed the White House's recent threat that a government shutdown could spur large-scale layoffs of the ...