It’s too early to blink, but the pressure is slowly beginning to rise. The government shutdown drama is still in its opening act with Democrats and Republicans each heaping blame on the other side.

• The longest shutdown in US history is over after President Donald Trump signed a funding bill to reopen the government. The House approved the bill earlier tonight in a 222-209 vote, with nearly ...

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 ...

On its face, the likely beginning of the path to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history is a major Democratic capitulation. Most congressional Democrats were against the deal that eight ...

They were two of seven Democratic senators — and an independent who caucuses with them — who joined Republicans Sunday in a vote to end the shutdown, allowing the majority party a filibuster-proof 60 ...

The 2025 government shutdown is about to enter its second week, with Democrats and Republicans still unable to agree on a federal funding deal. It's the first government shutdown since 2019, when ...

Or shall we say "reckonings." And they’re coming, whether the government reopens soon or remains shuttered. If the government stays closed, voters will likely torch both parties for not hammering out ...

Shutdowns are always unpleasant affairs. But President Trump has used his power in aggressive and strikingly personal ways. By Erica L. Green Erica L. Green covers the White House. She reported from ...

Stephanie A. (Sam) Martin does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

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 ...

Trump said he would use the shutdown to cut what he called "Democrat Agencies" from the federal government. A Washington Post poll taken on the first day of the shutdown found that 47% of respondents ...

Are we all political animals? Aristotle thought so. Politics, he believed, was the art of the possible, but extremes of ...