PBS NEWSHOUR: NPR’s Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join Geoff Bennett to discuss the latest political news, including the federal government shutdown reaching ...

View the full episode transcript. California voters have one proposition on the ballot this November: Proposition 50. It’s ...

Senate Democrats held firm and chose to block a Republican spending bill Tuesday evening, guaranteeing a government shutdown — even as President Donald Trump threatened “irreversible” layoffs if the ...

S.D., continues pushing House-passed continuing resolution while Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., demands ...

The Senate Democrats voted Tuesday almost in unison to defeat a House-passed bill to fund the government through Nov. 21, putting Washington on the brink of a government shutdown that could last for ...

It's official. The United States is in a shutdown after members of Congress failed to reach an agreement to keep the federal government running. The impact of a shutdown tends to be wide and varied, ...

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill closed out Day One of the government shutdown Wednesday with no resolution in sight. The Republican plan to reopen the government failed earlier Wednesday, lacking Democratic ...

The history of government shutdowns began in earnest in the nineteen-eighties. Even then, they were typically short and often revolved around a handful of issues. Not that there even was an issue all ...

For months, as the expiration of health insurance subsidies loomed, state health insurance commissioners warned Congress that millions of middle-class Americans were likely to see their insurance ...