House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) suggested Wednesday that the House will not return to the Capitol to vote on an $852 billion Pentagon bill the Senate is set to consider Thursday — unless Senate ...

Maryland Democrat says federal workers in his district "absolutely" want shutdown to end Democratic Rep. Johnny Olszewski — whose Maryland district is home to over 20,000 federal workers — said ...

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., declared the House of Representatives out of session for a third straight week in a bid to keep pressure on Senate Democrats in Washington. The speaker appears to be ...

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President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the ongoing government shutdown is an opportunity to close "Democrat programs that we want to close up or we never wanted to happen." "The Democrats are ...

Another day. Another vote. Another fail. The U.S. Senate vote Oct. 14 to pass a stopgap funding bill to end the partial federal government shutdown failed. Live updates: Trump to list closed agencies ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Saturday cast blame on Democrats for a looming lapse in military pay as the shutdown impasse persists, pointing to seven failed votes in the Senate to pass his ...

Democrats blocked a Republican-led attempt to provide essential government workers with paychecks amid an ongoing, 23-day shutdown, calling the bill overly selective and incomplete. That bill, ...

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., slammed the expiring Obamacare subsidies at the center of the government funding standoff as a “boondoggle” as the shutdown approaches the two-week mark ...