Category: Congress

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which helps feed more than 40 million people, will start to run out of funds Nov. 1.

Sen. Jeff Merkley yielded the Senate floor after more than 22 hours Wednesday, capping off an overnight protest against the Trump administration. The Oregon Democrat began speaking at 6:21...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune met with a group of GOP senators on Wednesday as Republicans quietly discuss possible paths forward on health care once the government reopens. The...

Republican congressional leaders are making plans for a new spending punt as the shutdown drags on, and any new version is likely to postpone the next deadline until 2026....

Firms with ties to the president are the new rainmakers.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) is “strongly” considering running for Senate, she said on Wednesday, raising the prospect of adding yet another marquee name to what is already a crowded...

The collapse of Paul Ingrassia’s Office of Special Counsel nomination is exposing an exasperated Senate GOP, where even the MAGA faithful can be pushed only so far by a...

There are no signs that informal bipartisan talks are anywhere close to ending what is now the second-longest shutdown in U.S. history.

“Constitutional rights cannot be used as a bargaining chip,” Kris Mayes wrote.

The top congressional Democrats contacted President Donald Trump on Tuesday to request a meeting as the shutdown drags into a fourth week. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in...