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Democrats should follow the example led by New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker’s marathon Senate floor speech, writes Bradford Fitch.
More than 30 Democratic town committees across Massachusetts signed onto a letter urging the state's members of Congress to fight harder against President Trump.
WASHINGTON (OSV News) – As the Trump administration moved to formally dissolve the U.S. Agency for International Development, ...
Amid funding uncertainty, CRS submitted testimony to congressional lawmakers about how Catholic teaching can help form a new path forward on U.S. aid.
Nearly $96 million in federal community project funds that Iowa lawmakers had sought for local priorities did not make it ...
The memo states that the “default position” is that all staff are reporting to work — except those who have been requested ...
In the face of Trump’s flurry of executive orders, people might wonder what Congress is actually doing. Aside from avoiding a government shutdown, the congressional branch of our government has ...
part of the ongoing rancor swirling in Congress about the politics surrounding a potential government shutdown. "Look, I'm not stepping down," Schumer said in an interview that aired Sunday on NBC ...
Trump has moved to reduce government regulation through executive ... power unless he was confirmed by the Senate. The accelerated shutdown "deprived the public's elected representatives in Congress ...
U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang ruled in favor of a group of more than two dozen unnamed former and current USAID employees and contractors.
“Donald Trump and Elon Musk have offered Congress a false choice between a government shutdown or a blank check that makes a devastating assault on the well-being of working families across ...
One attendee asked Cohen if he supported Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer's (D-NY) decision to avoid a government ...