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has been consistent, he wants the government open and the Administration has been working with both parties to ensure the American people don't have to endure another drawn out, senseless, and hurtful shutdown
↵↵Republicans, for their part, sought to increase the pressure on Democrats to pass a bill that avoids a department shutdown.
Congress' schedule for next year is set after the Senate rolled out its 2026 calendar Wednesday, a day after the House unveiled its own version.Â
↵↵Senate Republicans have committed to schedule a vote on legislation to renew the tax credits before the end of next month — but most Democrats, both progressives and centrists, say that's not enough
The days may be officially numbered for the longest partial government shutdown in history.
No, it wasn't about ending the longest government shutdown in American history.
Despite the wins, Senate Democrats are torn over how to end the partial government shutdown, our colleagues Sandhya Raman, Jessie Hellmann, Lia DeGroot, Aris Folley and Jacob Fulton write.
Bipartisan discussions are picking up momentum this week as lawmakers face building pressure to end the partial government shutdown ahead of critical deadlines for food stamps and health care, senators
The House has been out since the government shutdown began, and then some. It last conducted legislative business on Sept. 19.
The law’s expiration at the end of September, along with reduced staffing levels at federal cybersecurity agencies as a result of the partial government shutdown, has left observers concerned about U.S
There was nothing inevitable about this shutdown.Â
During the doldrums of a shutdown, the skirmishes spilled out into the relatively empty hallways. By the afternoon, more than one verbal clash had broken out.
President Donald Trump has pivoted to a noticeably lighter public schedule since the government began a partial shutdown last week, with no apparent signs he is trying to win over Democrats to reopen the
Still, cross-party negotiations on trying to find a way out of the shutdown are happening.
It’s the same argument Democrats repeatedly made when they were in the majority and were locked in shutdown showdowns with Republicans.
The upcoming schedule is vastly different to the approach Trump and his aides took over the spring and summer as Republicans negotiated his signature measure known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
This came two weeks after Gallego toured Iowa, and marked the completion of his first Iowa-New Hampshire swing — tour schedule stops that have long signaled a run for president.
March 14: Fiscal 2025 continuing resolution expires When Democrats and Republicans reached an agreement to avoid a shutdown ahead of Christmas, the agreement pushed the deadline for enacting appropriations
tie a six-month spending extension to a voting restriction bill pushed by former President Donald Trump was stymied Wednesday as the Louisiana Republican was forced to pull the package from the floor schedule
"Of course not," Scott said when asked about supporting a potential shutdown over the SAVE Act. "There’s nobody up here who wants to shut down the government."