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Oct 02, 2025
Republicans are proposing a straight extension of government spending, while Democrats are demanding the addition of over $1 trillion for health programs.
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Oct 02, 2025
It's the second day of a shutdown of the federal government. We explain what's happening.
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Oct 01, 2025
Unlike in shutdowns past, President Trump is the wild card.
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Oct 01, 2025
President Trump posted the video meme, which Representative Hakeem Jeffries called racist and bigoted. Vice President JD Vance said the president was "joking, and we're having a good time."
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Oct 01, 2025
Trump administration officials also directed federal employees to include Republican talking points in automated email replies explaining that they had been furloughed.
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Oct 01, 2025
Dueling proposals to end the government shutdown failed in the Senate on Wednesday. There was no end in sight to the deadlock as neither party showed signs of bowing to the other's government spending demands.
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Oct 01, 2025
Two Democratic senators and one independent who caucuses with them crossed party lines to support the G.O.P. plan to keep government funding flowing.
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Oct 01, 2025
The inboxes of some employees of the Small Business Administration are returning automated email replies that deliver a partisan message on the shutdown.
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Oct 01, 2025
In letters to consultants and the College Board, House and Senate Judiciary leaders invoked antitrust law and asked how student data feeds pricing algorithms.
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Oct 01, 2025
Dueling proposals to extend government funding both failed for the third time in two weeks, as neither party could muster the bipartisan coalition needed to move forward.
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Oct 01, 2025
In letters to consultants and the College Board, House and Senate Judiciary leaders invoked antitrust law and asked how student data feeds pricing algorithms.
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Oct 01, 2025
The U.S. government shut down on Wednesday at 12:01 a.m. Senator Chuck Schumer explains his decision-making moments before the vote.
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Oct 01, 2025
President Trump is seeking to deprive millions of Americans of their health insurance. Senate Democrats are refusing to acquiesce.
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Oct 01, 2025
James Talarico sees a spiritual void at the center of our society.
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Oct 01, 2025
The last time Senate Democrats found themselves taking the blame for a government shutdown, they quickly caved. That's less likely to happen now.
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Oct 01, 2025
A bitter spending deadlock between President Trump and Democrats plunged the federal government into the first shutdown since 2019.
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Sep 30, 2025
With few senators from conservative states in their ranks, Democrats feel less pressure to capitulate, while more conservative Republicans are not inclined to cut a deal.
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Sep 30, 2025
Dueling proposals to extend government funding failed in the Senate in the final hours before a midnight deadline when neither could draw the bipartisan support necessary to pass.
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Sep 30, 2025
The Senate failed to reach the 60 votes necessary to avoid a shutdown.
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Sep 30, 2025
Democrats have misused budget jargon to assail the Republican budget proposal as "dirty," but the bill is considered "clean."
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Sep 30, 2025
Shutdowns are complicated and could have wide-ranging consequences. Your input can help steer our coverage.
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Sep 30, 2025
President Trump's posting of a deepfake video mocking and insulting the top two Democrats in Congress underscored the lack of progress toward any deal to extend funding.
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Sep 30, 2025
Congress's persistent inability to write and pass spending bills on time has made government shutdowns like the imminent one a routine threat.
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Sep 29, 2025
President Trump met with Republican and Democratic leaders at the White House, but they emerged without a deal, as Democrats seek more health care funding.
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Sep 29, 2025
The top four leaders on Capitol Hill are each facing high stakes and competing political incentives as they barrel toward a shutdown.
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Sep 29, 2025
The top four leaders on Capitol Hill are each facing high stakes and competing political incentives as they barrel toward a shutdown.
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Sep 29, 2025
Coral Davenport, a New York Times reporter, explains how Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, plans to circumvent Congress's budgetary powers to advance the Trump administration's agenda.
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Sep 29, 2025
A blistering assault on economic elites, a moderate stance on cultural issues and a rejection of politics as usual. That's how to remake the Democratic Party.
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Sep 28, 2025
Lawmakers face a Tuesday deadline to fund the government, which will require them to agree on a spending measure that can win at least 60 votes in the Senate.
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Sep 28, 2025
Lawmakers face a Tuesday deadline to fund the government, which will require them to agree on a spending measure that can win at least 60 votes in the Senate.
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Sep 27, 2025
El exdirector del FBI fue imputado el jueves por un cargo de declaración falsa y otro de obstrucción en relación con un testimonio ante el Congreso hace cinco años.
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Sep 27, 2025
The Democrat from New Hampshire has worked to find common ground with the Trump administration on foreign affairs.
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Sep 26, 2025
The charges against the former F.B.I. director center on an appearance he made before a Senate committee in September 2020. Here's a closer look.
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Sep 26, 2025
The court's conservative majority allowed the president to cut the funding in part because it said his flexibility to engage in foreign affairs outweighed "the potential harm" faced by aid recipients.
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Sep 26, 2025
A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, on one count of making a false statement and one count of obstruction of a congressional proceeding. The indictment came amid extraordinary pressure from President Trump on prosecutors to pursue the case as retribution against Mr. Comey, a longtime antagonist.
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Sep 26, 2025
The former F.B.I. director was indicted Thursday on one count of making a false statement and one count of obstruction in connection with a congressional testimony five years ago.
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Sep 26, 2025
Judge Michael S. Nachmanoff, a Biden appointee, previously handled the 2019 arraignment of two associates of Rudolph W. Giuliani, among other high-profile cases.
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Sep 26, 2025
As despots have done for centuries, Trump is persecuting people he considers his enemies, with little justification other than raw political power.
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Sep 26, 2025
The Trump administration wants to cancel some spending through a budget maneuver with disturbing ramifications.
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Sep 26, 2025
After working for the vice president, he was at the forefront of the fight to save endangered landmarks as longtime head of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
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Sep 25, 2025
The president's top aides told agencies to prepare for potential firings if Congress cannot extend funding before the end of Sept. 30.
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Sep 24, 2025
After serving as an aide to Vice President Walter Mondale, he spent 17 years at the forefront of the fight to save numerous endangered landmarks.
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Sep 24, 2025
The president has spent his first months in office freezing out Democrats, who have in turn opposed him routinely. Now they need each other to keep the government open.
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Sep 24, 2025
Democrats in Congress and ethics lawyers are calling for an investigation into potential ethics violations related to United Arab Emirates deals.
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Sep 24, 2025
Extensive subsidies that reduce premium costs for millions are set to expire, unless Congress extends them.
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Sep 23, 2025
The coming Senate collision in the deep-blue state will be a test of the Democratic Party's appetite for generational change.
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Sep 23, 2025
President Trump's border czar was investigated for potential bribery after accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash, but the case was closed after Mr. Trump took office.
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Sep 23, 2025
Top Democrats are demanding concessions on health care in exchange for their support on a bill to fund the government. Mr. Trump called the demands "unserious."
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Sep 23, 2025
Top Democrats are demanding concessions on health care in exchange for their support on a bill to fund the government. Mr. Trump called the demands "unserious."
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Sep 22, 2025
Tariffs, not health care, would be a better focal point for the opposition party.
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Sep 20, 2025
After a Republican plan to keep funding flowing foundered in the Senate, Representative Hakeem Jeffries and Senator Chuck Schumer accused the president of standing in the way of a solution.
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Sep 19, 2025
Will the Senate minority leader, the avatar of old New York politics, endorse the young, up-and-coming democratic socialist?
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Sep 19, 2025
Lawmakers have said that President Trump has not provided sufficient evidence about the threat posed by the vessels or the legal basis to use force against them.
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Sep 19, 2025
"We should be thinking that we're heading for more damaging changes."
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Sep 18, 2025
A group of House and Senate Democrats said they would introduce a measure that would bolster legal protections for people targeted by the government for speaking freely.
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Sep 17, 2025
Senator Bill Cassidy warned against any new restrictions, and insurers suggested they would still cover routine vaccinations even if a C.D.C. panel tried to limit them.
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Sep 17, 2025
After rejecting a G.O.P.-written plan to keep federal funding flowing, Democrats released a counteroffer that would add more than $1 trillion in health spending.
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Sep 17, 2025
Insurers suggested they would still cover routine shots even if a C.D.C. panel tried to limit them, as an influential senator warned against new restrictions.
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Sep 17, 2025
The senator, Markwayne Mullin, quickly backtracked after pressing the now former director, Susan Monarez, on an exchange with the health secretary.
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Sep 17, 2025
After rejecting a G.O.P.-written plan to keep federal funding flowing, Democrats released a counteroffer that would add more than $1 trillion in health spending.
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Sep 17, 2025
At a Senate health committee hearing, Dr. Susan Monarez painted a picture of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a man wedded to his own ideology and uninterested in government scientists.
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Sep 17, 2025
Senator Bill Cassidy, the chairman of the health committee, said Americans should not trust a possible change to the childhood vaccine guidance.
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Sep 17, 2025
Susan Monarez, the head of the public health agency for barely a month, repeatedly told senators that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was ignoring science in undercutting vaccines.
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Sep 17, 2025
In using the nuclear option, John Thune has turned a Senate precedent on its head, defying his reputation as an institutionalist.
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Sep 17, 2025
Insurers suggested they would still cover routine shots even if a C.D.C. panel tried to limit them, as an influential senator warned against new restrictions.
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Sep 17, 2025
A political scientist explains why doing nothing right now is probably the best strategy for congressional Democrats.
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Sep 17, 2025
The senator, Markwayne Mullin, quickly backtracked after pressing the now former director, Susan Monarez, on an exchange with the health secretary.
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Sep 17, 2025
Dr. Susan Monarez told senators at a committee hearing on Wednesday that the health secretary had hurled false and hurtful accusations about the nation's health agency.
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Sep 17, 2025
Plus, Robert Redford's legacy.
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Sep 17, 2025
A political scientist explains why doing nothing right now is probably the best strategy for congressional Democrats.
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Sep 16, 2025
The F.B.I. director has come under withering attack in recent days, but with Republicans backing him, the proceedings fell into a familiar partisan groove that appeared to play to his strengths.
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Sep 16, 2025
Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, butted heads with Democratic senators during a Judiciary Committee hearing, where lawmakers questioned him about his missteps in recent months.
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Sep 16, 2025
After allowing a stopgap spending bill to move forward earlier this year, Democrats are under intense pressure not to do so again.
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Sep 16, 2025
House Republicans extended a maneuver they engineered earlier in the year that effectively strips Congress of the power to disapprove of President Trump's tariffs.
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Sep 16, 2025
Susan Monarez is set to provide her first detailed account of her ouster in testimony before the Senate Health Committee on Wednesday.
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Sep 16, 2025
Senator Bill Cassidy, a Republican physician and vaccine proponent who is facing a primary challenge from the right, has a fraught relationship with the health secretary.
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Sep 16, 2025
The voluble former senator, now retired from politics, appears to miss the arena and is mulling a return to it.
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Sep 16, 2025
Senate Republicans confirmed President Trump's nomination of Stephen Miran, a top White House economic adviser, as a governor for the Federal Reserve on Monday.
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Sep 15, 2025
The Senate voted to install one of President Trump's top economic advisers at the central bank, opening the door for him to cast a vote at this week's meeting to set interest rates.
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Sep 13, 2025
At an annual fund-raiser in Iowa, the Maryland Democrat said he supported Zohran Mamdani for mayor of New York City and said people were sick of "spineless politics."
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Sep 12, 2025
Democrats should go to the ramparts on three issues, with a popular solution for each.
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Sep 11, 2025
Republicans are signaling a new openness to extending health subsidies as Democrats suggest they want health care concessions to keep the government open.
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Sep 11, 2025
Senate Republicans used what is known as the nuclear option to break a Democratic blockade of President Trump's nominees, weakening Congress's vetting role.
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Sep 11, 2025
The killing of the right-wing activist deepened lawmakers' fears of violence directed against them, and the toxic discourse that has fed such threats.
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Sep 11, 2025
Republicans are signaling a new openness to extending health subsidies as Democrats suggest they want health care concessions to keep the government open.
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Sep 11, 2025
Ms. Menendez, the wife of former Senator Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, said her husband had led her astray.
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Sep 11, 2025
Ten Democratic senators called on the Senate Banking Committee to hold hearings into the role that financial institutions may have played in enabling Jeffrey Epstein's sex crimes.
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Sep 11, 2025
The wife of former Senator Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat already in prison for taking bribes, faces punishment on Thursday.
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Sep 10, 2025
Three Republican senators sent a letter to Meta's chief executive on Wednesday asking him to respond to whistle-blower allegations over security flaws.
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Sep 10, 2025
Though it failed, Mr. Schumer's proposal brought the contentious debate over the Trump administration's handling of the Epstein files to the Senate, which has largely avoided it.
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Sep 10, 2025
The chair of the Finance Committee sent the agency a letter inquiring about allegations that it had put the confidential personal information of Americans at risk.
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Sep 10, 2025
A bipartisan group in Congress has increased scrutiny of the fire engine industry. Firefighters complain that escalating prices and yearslong delays are straining public safety resources.
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Sep 09, 2025
The Republican response to the release of a suggestive note to Jeffrey Epstein apparently signed by President Trump followed a familiar pattern of deflection.
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Sep 09, 2025
The report, which follows a draft leaked last month, demonstrates both the ambitions and limits of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "Make America Healthy Again" agenda.
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Sep 09, 2025
Readers respond to a column by Ezra Klein about what the Democrats should do. Also: Florida and vaccines; no award for Tom Hanks at West Point.
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Sep 09, 2025
Rankling national security experts, the chipmaker has stepped up attacks on lawmakers who are pushing restrictions.
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Sep 09, 2025
State Representative James Talarico, who is studying to become a Presbyterian pastor, has sparred with Fox News hosts and bantered with Joe Rogan. Now he wants Senator John Cornyn's seat.
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Sep 08, 2025
Republicans said the maneuver to change the Senate's rules, the latest step that would weaken the filibuster, was necessary to overcome Democratic obstruction of President Trump's nominees.
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Sep 08, 2025
Two senators have begun an investigation into whether government officials could have done more to stop the Los Angeles fire. President Trump and other Republicans have blamed Democratic leaders for the disaster.
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Sep 07, 2025
By promoting suspicions about the institutions he oversees, critics say Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is jeopardizing public health. He says he is pursuing transparency.
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