Congress averted a government shutdown during the holidays but lengthened Donald Trump and Republicans' to-do list for 2025 ...

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Republican lawmakers say Congress’s near brush with a government shutdown shows that House Republicans do not have a functional majority, giving them a bad feeling about how difficult it will be ...

President Biden and his administration were largely absent from the onerous negotiations on government funding that gripped Capitol Hill this week. Instead, President-elect Trump and his allies ...

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

The Senate is on track to pass a stopgap bill after its passage in the House earlier Friday. However, the upper chamber ran ...

The bill, which keeps the government funded through March 14, must still pass the Senate before 12:01 a.m. to avoid a ...

The vote followed days of chaos in the Republican-controlled House, which served as a precursor of things to come next year.

After a chaotic week in which House Speaker Mike Johnson found himself at odds, at different times, with President-elect ...

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The Democratic-controlled Senate in an 85-11 vote passed the bill to continue government funding 38 minutes after it expired ...

Lawmakers sent a package to the Senate that would keep federal agencies running through mid-March -- but the upper chamber ...