the party’s longtime Senate leader, said a year ago, when a similar surrender by McCarthy cost him his job as speaker. Last ...

Republican electoral wins in both the presidential race and the Senate are changing the game on government funding, as ...

Speaker Mike Johnson needed to convince former President Donald Trump that a shutdown could hurt their party on Election Day even as the Republican presidential nominee was itching for a fight ...

Republicans almost universally support the voting bill, but they say pushing the issue so intensely that it results in a shutdown would backfire on the party. “Everybody wants to go home and ...

That is what shutdown means. That is not merely what it means to one party or the other. There had been well-established precedents under Democratic and Republican administration alike for the ...

Election Day is Tuesday, but in reality, that’s just the beginning of the process. It may take days to sort out who voters ...

The roughly three-month timeline is the preferred duration of Democrats and Republican ... urging the party to fight to get the bill enacted this month, even if it means a shutdown.

House Republican leadership acquiesced on a budget stopgap funding the government through December, despite complaints from the party’s more conservative members. WASHINGTON (CN) — Congress appeared ...

Such votes on rules, which govern the debate over a bill, are traditionally party ... bill is Republican leadership’s latest attempt at avoiding an Oct. 1 government shutdown after Johnson ...

Donald Trump is only the second US President to be elected to a second, non-consecutive term after Grover Cleveland in the 19th century.

Speaker Mike Johnson needed to convince former President Donald Trump that a shutdown could hurt their party on Election Day even as the Republican presidential nominee was itching for a fight with ...