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Congressional Republicans, under pressure to move forward on President Donald Trump's tax cut and border security agenda, are ...

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 infuriated with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer over his support of the GOP’s spending bill to avoid a government shutdown. Rep. Robert Garcia shares his thoughts on Schumer’s ...

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

Foreign officials who enable the forced return of Uyghurs and other ethnic or religious groups to China face visa ...

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 ...

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 ...