The government shutdown began at midnight on Oct. 1 as Democrats and Republicans appeared to be nowhere close to reaching a ...

Facing Democratic opposition, the GOP has discarded a series of precedents and weakened minority power in order to vote through Trump's nominees and legislation.

Trump has started firing thousands of federal workers while assuring the military will be paid during the shutdown.

People Power Party Representative Park Soo-min renewed the record for the longest filibuster in history on the 26th. The previous record was 15 hours and 50 minutes, which he himself set last August ...

Most Democratic senators have used the filibuster to vote down funding bills that would avert a government shutdown.

Government shutdowns lasting more than a few days were relatively rare — until recently. The 2018-2019 shutdown was the longest in U.S. history, stretching on for five weeks.

“It’s really the Trump shutdown,” Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told CNN’s John Berman. “Republicans ...

This is cobbled together from speaking to multiple sources on both sides of the Capitol. The House is now aiming to vote Thursday on the "clean" interim spending bill which would fund the government ...

The era of politically correct, overly sensitive don’t-hurt-anyone’s-feelings leadership ends right now at every level,” ...

On the third day of the shutdown, a Senate vote to advance a Republican bill that would reopen the government fell well short of the 60 needed to end a filibuster and pass the legislation. Senators ...

Trump and Republicans control the process, Eric Garcia writes. Any shutdown would be because they refused to negotiate with Democrats ...