President Trump achieved his goal of shrinking the work force. But many current and former officials say the government is ...

A roundup of Oregonians who played an outsized role in the protests, policies and major tax cut and spending packages that ...

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 ...

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 ...

The administration could use $5 billion in emergency funds and tariff revenue. Republican and Democratic lawmakers remain at a stalemate on finding a government funding solution to end what is now the ...

• Shutdown-related firings begin: White House budget chief Russell Vought announced the government has started firing federal workers as the shutdown drags on. So far, it appears the Departments of ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday said he’s working to determine which "Democrat" agencies will face cuts after Democrats and Republicans failed to reach an agreement on a government funding package.

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 ...

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 ...

Virginia Eubanks is a journalist, writer and political scientist at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Her most recent book is Automating Inequality (2018). In Rewiring Democracy, ...

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 ...

Stay up to date with live coverage of the government shutdown Tuesday as the House notified leaders to expect a vote Wednesday afternoon on a bill to reopen the government. It will come after the ...