Returning lawmakers will be choosing the leaders for the next Congress and finishing work on the remaining priorities of the ...

Republican electoral wins in both the presidential race and the Senate are changing the game on government funding, as ...

House Republican leaders took a victory lap as they returned to Washington, saying they are ready on Day 1 to work on ...

Just before the October 1 deadline, the Senate voted 78-18 to pass a continuing resolution to extend federal spending and ...

calling on GOP lawmakers to reject it Even before the tentative deal was announced, right-wing media figures were calling for a government shutdown, especially “if the border isn’t secured” ...

With Donald Trump's election, the Republican Party gains control of both Congressional houses. This control is anticipated to support an agenda focusing on tax cuts and reduced federal governance.

So in a recent sit-down at Mar-a-Lago, Johnson showed Trump polling warning a shutdown could zap the GOP’s House majority ... team will need to keep the government open and deal with an early ...

And GOP pundits will blame Republicans. Political death, they will say. Really? Former National Review reporter Andrew Stiles wrote a most interesting government-shutdown piece almost two years ...

Out of leverage in government shutdown negotiations ... through the House on Wednesday with Democratic help as his brittle GOP majority again rejects a measure to keep the government open.