The Senate voted Thursday against keeping the government open past Saturday—with Democrats refusing to fund the Department of Homeland Security unless reforms are enacted in the wake of Alex Pretti’s ...

On Saturday, January 31, the United States entered into a partial government shutdown. This is a direct result of the 2025 shutdown, which only ended when lawmakers voted on a bill to fund the country ...

The root cause of the nation’s longest government shutdown – and the next one, and the one after that – isn’t ideological extremism or hyper-partisanship on their own. It’s the incentives created by ...

• Stalemate continues: The government has been shut down for more than a week, and Congress still appears deadlocked. The Senate today again failed to advance two competing spending proposals from ...