The Senate cleared a stopgap funding extension early Saturday shortly after a midnight deadline, staving off a partial government shutdown and ending days of gridlock over a package ...

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NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson joins NPR's Ayesha Rascoe to discuss the spending battle and how it could affect the early months of the incoming Trump administration.

The Senate cleared a stopgap funding extension early Saturday shortly after a midnight deadline, staving off a partial ...

The 1,500 page measure, known as a continuing resolution, would have done more than keep the government funded at current ...

The funding bill that Congress passed over the weekend could have gone further if not for Elon Musk’s influence over ...

After days of political theater and threats of financial doomsday, a shutdown has been averted. Erica Brown reports on the ...

The incoming Congress, which will be controlled by Republicans, is still expected to face bruising battles over government ...

Johnson tried to placate Trump by bringing up a slimmed-down, 116-page version of the bill on Thursday. It included disaster relief, farm aid and the debt ceiling. Trump immediately backed it, calling ...

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has proposed to make the land into a sports complex with a market hall, pedestrian bridges, and a ...

One of the most tumultuous sessions of Congress in modern history is set to give way to an equally contentious new chapter as ...