House Speaker Mike Johnson has accomplished the seemingly unexpected, keeping his Republican majority in line to fund the ...

President Donald Trump's reckless tariff policies are threatening to drive the economy into a ditch—and Congress just made it ...

Underscoring Democrats’ plans for the next two years is their goal to win control of the House in the 2026 midterm elections.

After meeting with his conference, the Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said "Republicans do not have the votes" to ...

The countdown is on for Maine lawmakers to pass a supplemental budget, which is needed to fill a multi-million-dollar budget shortfall for MaineCare.

Live updates and the latest news as U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum kick in and the Senate turns to a government funding ...

But such a move would risk shifting some of the blame for an increasingly shaky US economy from Trump onto the rival party US ...

Two key House votes show that even a lightweight like Mike Johnson has the juice to enact Trump’s smash-and-grab agenda.

The top Senate Democrat said his members were not ready to provide the votes to allow the Republican-written stopgap spending measure to pass ahead of a March 14 midnight deadline.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said his party would block a Republican spending bill to avert a government shutdown ...

Senate Democrats are staring down a major dilemma as they agonize over how to handle the GOP’s stopgap spending bill in the ...

The bill puts significant pressure on Democrats in the Senate, whose votes will be needed in order to avoid a shutdown. The ...