Elections News How A Government Shutdown Could Play In The 2024 Election

Shutdown stalemate drags on as candidates make final campaign push before elections

Follow here for the latest live updates on President Donald Trump’s administration and the government shutdown ahead of Tuesday’s elections. Read More

Democrats are seething over the shutdown deal, but they might be celebrating a year from now

Sen. Tim Kaine, who helped finalize the deal, defended it on CNN Monday. Kaine noted that the White House had pledged to rehire federal workers fired during the lapse in government funding and to bar ... Read More

GOP’s Shutdown Win May Backfire Over Soaring Health-Care Costs

The moves by GOP leaders to resist Democrats’ demands to protect expiring subsidies for Obamacare as the price for reopening federal agencies will save the government billions of dollars and weaken a ... Read More

The deal to end the shutdown exposed rifts among Democrats. Just ask Maine

Maine's four-person Congressional delegation is one of the smallest in the country. Yet their mixed votes on the bill to reopen the government reflect the national divide over the fraught issue. Read More

The government shutdown is ending, but for Democrats, the drama may just be getting started

Minority Leader Chuck Schumer may have voted against the deal to end the shutdown, but that hasn't stop the left from calling his leadership into question. Read More

Democratic unity fractures, paving the way for the government to reopen

The agreement opened the way for a Senate vote in which eight Democratic defectors voted to break the filibuster and to clear the first hurdle to reopening the government after nearly six weeks. Their ... Read More

Senators say government could shut down again in January

Senators are bracing themselves for yet another government shutdown, just hours after concluding a 43-day freeze. The belief in Congress is that outstanding bills will lead to another shutdown as ... Read More