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House Democrats stood against Donald Trump's illegal spending cuts by voting against the GOP's stopgap spending bill. Now it's the Senate's turn.

If there is a paradigmatic example of this crisis in American history, it can be found in the secession crisis of 1860 to ...

The House voted 217 to 213 on a bill to fund the federal government through September and avoid a shutdown that would have ...

Conservatives have challenged the drawing of some Black-majority congressional districts ahead of the 2026 midterms ...

The president and the Republican Party seem not to be troubled by polls. They are adhering to a simple maxim: Political power ...

Six weeks into his presidency, Donald Trump addressed Congress and the nation Tuesday evening, laying out his goals for the next four years. ABC News, along with PolitiFact, live fact-checked Trump's ...

With a modesty we have come to expect of him, President Donald Trump informed Congress on Tuesday night that he had already ...

CBS News' Confirmed team is fact checking President Trump's 2025 joint address to Congress on Tuesday night, his first speech to both chambers of Congress since he won the presidential election in ...

In his speech to Congress, the president played up the benefits of ramped-up tariffs and an immigration crackdown.

President Donald Trump recapped six weeks of aggressive efforts to cut the federal workforce, reorganize the economy and reorient foreign policy in his first address to a joint session of Congress.