Two key House votes show that even a lightweight like Mike Johnson has the juice to enact Trump’s smash-and-grab agenda.

The band of far-right rebels supported a budget plan with a massive debt limit hike and a status-quo bill to keep the government open, two things they've long been fiercely against.

The Republicans who control Congress and the White House are governing at lightning speed — over the dismantling of the very ...

House Republicans hold together to avoid a government shutdown, put Senate Democrats on the spot.

Senate Democrats are staking out their positions on a bill to temporarily fund the government, known as a continuing resolution (CR), which would avert a federal shutdown.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Wednesday that Democrats will not support a House Republican-passed bill to ...

The leading Democrats in the House are ramping up the pressure on Senate Democrats to oppose the GOP’s spending bill, warning that the proposal would slash crucial public services to vulnerable ...

House Republicans narrowly passed their stopgap funding bill Tuesday despite a nearly-united “no” vote from Democrats and one Republican. The measure, a 99-page “clean” continuing resolution that will ...

Democrats have a rare moment of leverage in Washington after losing the November election and watching helplessly as Elon ...

It's up to the Senate to pass the spending bill and get it to President Donald Trump’s desk to avert a possible government shutdown.

Rep. Thomas Massie, the lone Republican holdout on the government spending bill championed by President Donald Trump, has a ...