The Latest Breaking News from Mike Johnson

‘You are going to hear me utter words I never thought I'd say: Marjorie Taylor Greene is right,’ Raphael Warnock tells The Independent

"Congress will make this call," said one House Republican. "We will pay the workers."

As the funding lapse continues and Republicans and Democrats play a familiar blame game, some worry the cycle is hard to break.

A top White House lawyer floats the idea that furloughed workers don't need to be paid after a government shutdown.

‘The livelihoods of the patriotic Americans serving their country in the federal government are not bargaining chips in a political game,’ the American Federation of Government Employees national president said.

Hakeem Jeffries has publicly challenged the Republican Speaker, Mike Johnson, for a live debate on the ongoing shutdown situation. Guess who’s going to hide behind the white wall again?

"Aren't we all against convicted pedophiles and anyone who enables them?"

ANALYSIS: Sorting out who wins when workers are being furloughed and services to Americans frozen is a fool’s errand, writes Eric Garcia, but two races ahead of the 2026 midterms will serve as bellwethers.

Competing bills fail to pass 60-vote threshold, while Trump hints at possible deal with Democrats over health subsidies

In impromptu remarks, Trump signals willingness to continue expanded premium tax credits for coverage purchased on government-run exchanges. 

Every day, the Republicans under Donald Trump’s administration seem to reach new lows as they attempt to push their agenda and take steps toward establishing a dictatorship in the United States. In the past, they handled this more discreetly, but now their intentions are quite apparent.