Congressional negotiations to avert a government shutdown in less than three weeks appear to have reached an impasse as ...

A fierce debate about the future of Medicaid is currently underway in Congress. The public health insurance program covers 1 ...

The budget resolution from Republicans was on the agenda in the Senate, but the nearly all-night debate encompassed so much ...

"Medicaid has never been on the chopping block,” House Speaker Mike ... Johnson said in a press briefing earlier this month. "They have left no doubt Medicaid is on the chopping block ...

Senate Republicans plowing ahead with their efforts to advance the first stage of their two-part package to pay for Trump's ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune has teed up a vote on a budget plan designed to give President Donald Trump an early policy ...

Patty Murray (Wash ... of partisan riders that Democrats have decried as “poison pills.” Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), meanwhile, can afford virtually no defections in his fractious conference ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Elon Musk debuted the Department of Government Efficiency recently at the Capitol, House Speaker Mike Johnson ... of powers.” Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, the ...

Trump and Republican congressional leaders could fumble their way into a prolonged and painful shutdown of the federal government as a March 14 deadline looms.

Patty Murray, D-Wash ... its more comprehensive budget plan to the floor on a party-line vote. Speaker Mike Johnson's office said it will come up for a vote in the full chamber next week when ...

That's being assembled by House Speaker Mike Johnson in a separate budget ... which divides the party. Sen. Patty Murray, the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, said the single ...