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

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has signaled his party is prepared to let the government shut down. Why it ...

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

Education Department Chief Information Officer Thomas Flagg told employees that entire units under this supervision have been “dissolved.” ...

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

Oregon U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley spoke with NewsWatch 12 ahead of town hall meetings in Jackson and Josephine County on Sunday, March 16.

In just over 48 hours, the government will partially shut down unless Congress can pass a continuing resolution. New ...

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.

President Trump has made large scale changes to the federal workforce even before receiving mass layoff plans from federal ...

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

The House developed a six-month bill that would continue funding the government and raise the debt ceiling, while making drastic cuts, but some senators aren't fans of the legislation. And they're ...