Before the U.S. Senate began its August break, Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who heads the upper chamber’s ...

The Senate on Friday night adopted a $455 billion spending bill for the Department of Veterans Affairs that invests in recruiting clinicians at hospitals, provides a large increase to the toxic ...

Rifts are emerging between Republicans over how to approach next month’s government funding fight, with some pushing for ...

As Congress begins its summer recess, concerns grow over its ability to pass a full-year budget by the end of September, with ...

Lawmakers have left Washington for the annual August recess, but a few weeks of relative quiet at the U.S. Capitol can’t mask ...

In the 20th Congress, seven minority lawmakers filed the first FOI measure in a bid to break that pattern. Liberal Party lawmakers filed House Bill 2897, also known as the “People’s Freedom of ...

Republicans broke the budget deal. Democrats should stop negotiating and let them keep the government open alone.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is sending a warning to Republicans that next year’s spending bills must have Democratic buy-in, or the government will likely shut down.

Jeffries’s shutdown warning, therefore, leans heavily on his Democratic colleagues in the Senate holding the line against any partisan GOP bills.

Republican lawmakers fear Washington may be headed for a government shutdown later this year after two bruising fights over President Trump’s One Big, Beautiful Bill Act and a $9 billion rescissions ...