Trump administration briefed Republicans on Wednesday about US military strikes on suspected drug boats without telling Democratic members about the briefing, according to a top Senate Democrat and a source with direct knowledge of the incident.

The Senate failed for a 13th time to advance a GOP funding bill that would end the government shutdown, now on Day 28. Follow live updates here.

Senate Democrats on Tuesday voted for the 13th time to block a House-passed bill to reopen the federal government, despite a plea this week by the nation’s largest federal workers union to

Four of the five Trump nominees for the Tennessee Valley Authority's board are headed toward confirmation by the full Senate.

Food aid for more than 40 million Americans is at risk of expiring at week’s end WASHINGTON — Republican leaders in Congress said it’s all or nothing on Wednesday as they rejected a Democratic push to carve out food aid funding for more than 40 million Americans who stand to lose it as part of the government shutdown .

The Senate on Thursday afternoon is set to vote on the Shutdown Fairness Act — a bill introduced by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) that would provide pay for service members and excepted workers as the

More than two dozen Democratic state leaders are suing the Department of Agriculture after the Trump administration said it would not use contingency funds to pay SNAP benefits during the shutdown.

Democrats and Republicans are pushing dueling bills to keep Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits funded through November, as the government shutdown threatens to cease the distribution of benefits on Saturday.