Federal layoffs loom as Trump uses shutdown to push workforce reduction, while Karoline Leavitt defends administration's fiscal responsibility goals.

There were frustrating delays and cancellations on Monday evening at Burbank Airport as the government shutdown triggered a shortage of air traffic controllers.

Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics and inequality. President Trump has unleashed new weaponry in his war against Democrats, liberals and the left.

Furloughed federal workers aren't guaranteed compensation for their forced time off during the government shutdown, according to a draft White House memo described to Axios by three sources. Why it ...

President Donald Trump cracked the door slightly to negotiations with Democrats on the health care subsidies they’ve made central to the shutdown fight, then abruptly closed<a class="excerpt-read-more ...

Oct 7 (Reuters) - The White House is not guaranteeing compensation for hundreds of thousands of federal workers who are on forced time off during the government shutdown, Axios reported on Tuesday, ...

A Republican-appointed judge on August 28 blocked the administration from removing Abramowitz as VOA director on the grounds that he cannot be removed in the absence of a majority vote from the ...

WASHINGTON — The opposing partisan strategies that led to the U.S. government shutdown can’t both be winners. But both parties remain confident theirs is the strategy that will grab the public's ...

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt tried Monday to blame Democrats for President Donald Trump’s unprecedented decision to fire federal workers during the government shutdown. During a press ...

The government crisis in the United States continues. On Monday evening, another shutdown vote in the Senate failed to get the necessary support of 60 votes as Democrats rejected the short-term ...

WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican and Democratic lawmakers at an impasse on reopening the federal government provided few public signs Sunday of meaningful negotiations talking place to end ...

Nearly a week into the government shutdown, gridlock in the Senate persists. Dueling plans to fund the federal government once again failed on Monday evening. Ahead of those votes, President Donald ...