On spending, oversight and other issues, Republican lawmakers have willingly ceded power traditionally reserved for Congress to the Trump White House.

Congress avoided a government shutdown Friday evening, after the Senate passed legislation that funds the federal government through September at spending levels similar to the 2024 fiscal year.

Congress handed Donald Trump a victory Friday in the form a bill to avert a government shutdown, expanding the president’s control over the federal budget and infuriating Democrats. The Senate voted 54-46 to approve the House-passed temporary funding fix,

Alan Simpson, a longtime Republican senator from Wyoming who championed bipartisan solutions and steadfastly advocated for a moderate blend of conservatism, has died. He was 93.

Alan Simpson (R-WY) during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., July 7, 2022. WASHINGTON, (Reuters) -Alan Simpson, an old school moderate Republican senator who helped craft major U.

Relatives and colleagues remember former GOP Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming as a figure who was "gifted in crossing party lines."