This accounting method treats tax cut extensions as a continuation of the current policy that costs nothing, rather than as a new policy.

The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday night passed a Senate-approved spending package, ending the congressional ...

The signing came just hours after the Republican-controlled US House passed a measure to end the record 43-day shutdown ...

WASHINGTON — House lawmakers made a long-awaited return to the nation’s capital Wednesday after nearly eight weeks away to ...

The US government was set to take the first tentative steps towards re-opening on Thursday after President Donald Trump ...

Kennedy’s first bill, the‘No Shutdown Paychecks to Politicians Act, would stop congressional pay entirely during any shutdown and eliminate back pay once the government reopens.

Stacey Plaskett, a Democrat who represents the US Virgin Islands in Congress as a non-voting delegate, received texts from ...