WASHINGTON – Congress careened toward a government shutdown on Thursday after President-elect Donald Trump sank a bipartisan deal that would have funded the government until March, then endorsed a ...

President-elect Donald J. Trump denounced a bipartisan spending deal that would fund the government until mid-March, telling ...

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Fourteen Democratic senators will introduce an amendment to remove language from Congress’ defense spending bill that seeks ...

Today, U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema delivered her farewell speech as Arizona’s senior Senator.

The Senate cleared a national defense authorization bill lauded for troop raises and condemned for targeting trans kids in ...

Shapiro was discussing negotiations to prevent a government shutdown, including disaster relief funds in part for states like Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee that were hit by hurricanes in 2024 BEN ...

PORT ANGELES — U.S. Sen. Patty Murray has secured $80 million in federal funding to rebuild the Hurricane Ridge Day Lodge in a disaster supplemental package she authored and negotiated, and it will be ...

Congressional leaders have labored this week to put forward a stopgap funding bill that would avert a shutdown Friday evening ...

President-elect Donald J. Trump tapped Herschel Walker on Tuesday to be the U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas. Mr. Walker is a ...

The House-Senate compromise released this weekend ... Washington state Democratic Sen. Patty Murray said in a written statement she was “disappointed that the final NDAA didn’t include the ...