Congress has surrendered its power to declare war and control federal spending to the executive branch, giving President ...

House lawmakers plan a pivotal vote on the proposal this week. Kemp has threatened to call a special session if it doesn't pass.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) is facing the toughest fight of his Senate leadership career amid sharp attacks from his party’s base over his vote to advance a House ...

Congress is already looking to the next spending fight after a bitter culmination to the fiscal 2025 funding battle last week that took the threat of a shutdown off the table through September. But ...

His answer was no—that Senate Democrats should have taken a stand against Donald Trump’s lawlessness and withheld the votes Republicans needed to keep the government from shutting down. Even one ...

Republicans eager to offset the cost of cutting taxes may see lower Medicare spending on outpatient care as a source of budgetary savings.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks with Democratic strategists Paul Begala and Waleed Shahid about party divides following disputes over a Republican-backed stopgap spending bill.

On this week’s episode of “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart slammed Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for voting to pass a Republican ...

Congressman Henry Cuellar says he was willing to work in a bipartisan way to avoid the government shutdown, stating, “I voted ...

The Constitution offers the president the unique and irrefutable power to issue pardons. In one of his final acts in office, ...

Current and former federal employees called on Congress and the public to fight for public service jobs under Trump.

Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries may reside just blocks away from one another – but their recent spending clash shows two ...