US House speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday he hopes lawmakers take temporary measures soon to avoid a government shutdown, allowing them to adopt a full budget only after Donald Trump takes power in ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said he expects Congress to extend the existing government budget into early next year to ...

Two members of Congress are pressing officials for answers after NBC News exposed failures to notify relatives of dead people whose bodies were used for medical research. The politicians also ...

A day after the Kerala government was informed that landslides and flash floods that happened in Wayanad in July this year ...

That's who's behind more than half the money that's gone toward a campaign to change Covington's local form of government to a strong mayor system, one that would eliminate the city manager role ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries speaks with NPR's Michel Martin about his new book, The ABCs of Democracy, and what's ...

The success of the G.O.P. push to keep the majority suggests that it paid no political price for the chaos and paralysis of ...

The government faces another shutdown in five weeks and members have just returned from a month-long break. Both sides are ...

Donald Trump said he would use the department to further his priorities. He also said he would close it. Both options would ...

House Republicans are planning to strategize with President-elect Trump on their path forward to funding the government past ...

Ahead of the Dec. 20 deadline, Republican leaders need to decide whether they want to push the cliff into Trump's second term ...

Lawmakers are reportedly preparing a temporary bill to keep the government’s doors open until March as the nation faces a ...