Democrats might be committing political suicide if they fold without winning meaty concessions on health care.

The plan to fund SNAP amid the federal government shutdown faces an uncertain path in a politically divided Michigan ...

Senate Democrats are taking a close look at a Republican proposal to pay all federal employees — including essential and ...

Senate Democrats are resisting calls from the nation’s largest union representing federal workers — a longtime political ally ...

Senate Republicans cited a call by the American Federation of Government Employees to pass a funding extension in an attempt ...

CNN data reporter Harry Enten discusses the results of new polls from AP-NORC and Quinnipiac on how the public is responding ...

Johnson, who has refused to call the House into session, said during his daily press conference at the partly closed Capitol ...

Senate Democrats may be open to supporting a Republican proposal to pay all federal workers — essential and furloughed ...

Attorney General Dave Yost accused Democrats of using working families as leverage in budget negotiations as November 1 ...

The emergency funding for the program formerly known as food stamps would help 1.4 million Michigan residents who face losing ...

Democratic and Republican strategists and pollsters agree that the government shutdown, which will hit the 30-day mark this ...

In 1995, President Bill Clinton canceled a trip to Japan during a shutdown. In 2013, President Barack Obama canceled a ...