Democrats keep the focus on health care in the shutdown fight: From the Politics Desk

It added that voters are siding with Democrats’ health care funding demands, that “Republicans are starting to feel the heat” on the issue and that the GOP’s political pain will worsen “the longer and ... Read More

Polling provides clues for why neither side is budging in the shutdown standoff: From the Politics Desk

Polling provides clues for why neither side is budging in the shutdown standoff: From the Politics Desk ... Read More

Senate Democrats clash with House Speaker over shutdown and Epstein

Arizona Sens. Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego pressed Johnson on why a Democrat who won a special House election in Arizona had not been sworn in. Read More

Why Democrats Think They’re Winning the Shutdown Fight

They’ve clearly succeeded in elevating the issue of health care. Read More

Top Senate Republican reveals why Democrats are ‘stuck’ as shutdown reaches day five

Senate Majority Leader John Thune says some Democrats want an "off-ramp" from the government shutdown as the GOP-coined 'Schumer shutdown' reaches day five. Read More

Podcast: Trump Raises Pressure on Democrats as Shutdown Continues

President Trump ratcheted up pressure on Democrats on the second day of the government shutdown. We hear from White House reporter Alex Leary about how he is doing it, and why the shutdown presents a ... Read More

Why Democrats Shut Down the Government

A few weeks ago, Ezra Klein, the influential liberal columnist at the Times, effectively called on Democrats to shut down the government, in an op-ed headlined “Stop Acting Like This Is Normal.” He ... Read More

Trump ups the pain, partisanship in taking shutdown politics to new levels

President Donald Trump’s boundary-pushing second administration is on full display in his approach to the shutdown. Read More

Why Democrats aren't sweating Republican threats of mass firings in a shutdown

Congressional Democrats are largely dismissing a threat from the Trump administration to use a government shutdown to try to accelerate the firings of thousands of federal workers. Why it matters: The ... Read More