Our live coverage of the government shutdown has ended for the day. Read more here or in the posts below. The American Federation of Government Employees and the American Federation of State, County ...

As President Donald Trump’s first year back in the White House winds down, he has already transformed and upended the federal government.

As Republicans try to pin blame for shutdown damage on Democrats, they are hailing a federal bureaucracy they normally bash as wasteful and overreaching. By Carl Hulse Reporting from Capitol Hill The ...

We look at where the willingness among Democrats and Republicans is to end the government shutdown, as well as U.S. strikes on alleged cartel boats in the Caribbean. We're joined now by NPR senior ...

At 12:01 a.m. ET on Wednesday, the federal government entered its first shutdown since 2018, after two competing funding proposals, one from Democrats and another from Republicans, failed in the ...

Labor groups are set to square off against the Trump administration one day after the president renewed his threat to cut “Democrat programs.” By Tony Romm Reporting from Washington A federal judge on ...

The Pennsylvania governor is just now emerging from a contentious four-month budget impasse that tested his ability to “get ...

The U.S. Capitol building. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images) When the federal government ran out of money on Oct. 1, the consensus in Washington, D.C., was that it was likely the start of one of ...

The root cause of the nation’s longest government shutdown – and the next one, and the one after that – isn’t ideological extremism or hyper-partisanship on their own. It’s the incentives created by ...

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart of MSNBC join Geoff Bennett to discuss the week in politics, including the government shutdown showing no signs of ending quickly, President ...