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The time and place to fix our own mistakes is at election time, not at a time when shutting down the government of the United ...

( NewsNation) — U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., on Thursday sharply criticized Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for voicing his intent to vote for a Republican-sponsored budget bill to ...

Rep. Kweisi Mfume, D-Md., protests against DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, as he and other House Democrats ...

The Senate on Friday passed a Republican-led stopgap measure to keep the government funded ahead of a midnight deadline.

Democrats are divided after a Republican-led funding bill to avert a government shutdown passed with the help of 10 Democrats ...

The uproar prompted House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) to trek back 35 miles to the Capitol to hold an ...

JUST A SMALL STRAY SHOWER CHANCE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, MAINLY WEST OF HARRISBURG. SO I’LL TALK MORE ABOUT THE TIMING OF THOSE STORMS AND THE THREATS COMING UP IN MY FULL FORECAST. OKAY. THANKS, ...

President Trump continued to threaten tariffs as DOGE continued its cuts of the federal workforce. It was another ...

U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump nominee, denied a request to block the administration from canceling $65 million ...

President Donald Trump signed a stopgap funding bill that will keep the government open for the remainder of the fiscal year, ...

The Senate passed the bill 54-46 on Friday. The Democrats who voted to pass the funding bill were Schumer and Sens. John ...