Johnson faced an uphill battle in maintaining the speaker's gavel and didn't manage to secure the votes he needed in an initial round of voting Friday.

Republicans may not have a functioning legislative majority by the time those fights begin. The GOP won 220 seats in November ...

Ghana's parliament has passed a provisional budget that allows the government to spend $4.65 billion through March, the ...

Incoming-President Trump's promise to dismantle the Department of Education could impact your student loans. Here's what you ...

The federal debt limit has no practical value. This suggests that ending it would be a good idea. Yet the laws of unintended ...

As a matter of fact, it came just a few hours before midnight. But, last week, the House of Representatives acted…avoiding a federal government shutdown. The last-minute vote wasn’t a total surprise, ...

President-elect Donald Trump on Monday endorsed House Speaker Mike Johnson, providing crucial backing for the Louisiana ...

WASHINGTON -- Congress stripped the IRS of an additional $20 billion last week when averting the government shutdown. Originally, congressional Democrats had given the IRS $80 billion in the 2022 ...

In a video, Jacobs added that a government shutdown wouldn’t hurt Musk and Trump, both billionaires, as it would "everyday ...

Johnson tried to placate Trump by bringing up a slimmed-down, 116-page version of the bill on Thursday. It included disaster ...

President Biden has signed legislation passed by Congress on Friday to prevent a government shutdown, as questions shift to ...