Washington Times

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy boasted about gaining enough support to pass a 45-day stopgap spending measure requiring Democrat votes to pass the lower chamber.

In an unexpected twist, the House on Saturday passed a stopgap spending bill with just hours until a government shutdown with Democrats providing the necessary votes to pass Speaker Kevin McCarthy's "clean" bill.

Rep. Matt Gaetz told reporters Saturday that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's speakership is on shaky ground over a failure to bring his conference to pass twelve spending measures.

Rep. Jamaal Bowman, a member of Congress' far-left Squad, on Saturday allegedly pulled a fire alarm in a House office building to buy fellow Democrats more time to review the GOP's new stopgap spending bill.

House Democrats are scrambling to buy time to figure out their position on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's stopgap bill, using arcane rules to buy as many minutes as they can.

Democrat Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said that members of his conference don't trust the House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and need more time to review the speaker's last-minute stopgap bill.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is moving forward with a "clean" stopgap spending bill that ditches border policy and spending cuts, saying he tried and failed to rally his Republicans to pass a hyper-conservative version to keep the government open.

The Democrats' fragile majority in the U.S. Senate puts extra pressure on California Gov. Gavin Newsom to quickly pick a replacement for Sen. Dianne Feinstein following her death, a fraught decision for a two-term governor with national ambitions of his own.

Dianne Feinstein once stood at the center of a pivotal moment in LGBTQ+ history. Decades later, in death, she's being lauded by LGBTQ+ leaders as a longtime ally who, if she didn't always initially do the right thing, was able to learn and evolve.

When Washington Sen. Patty Murray received a call early Friday morning that Sen. Dianne Feinstein had died, she immediately started calling her fellow female senators.

Having stood out in two presidential debates, Nikki Haley has booked her largest venue in Iowa since launching her campaign. She's hoping to fill a 600-person hall in a western Des Moines suburb on Saturday.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy went back to the drawing board after a large faction of his Republicans shot down a stopgap spending bill, saying he would try again on Saturday just hours before the shutdown deadline.

Federal prosecutors pressed their case Friday for a limited gag order on former President Donald Trump, citing what they said was a continuing pattern of incendiary and intimidating statements in the case charging him with scheming to overturn the results of…

The House has voted to reauthorize the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief after adding pro-life protections, teeing up a showdown with the Senate as Republicans accuse the Biden administration of seeking to expand the program's mission to allow…

The death of Sen. Dianne Feinstein at age 90 prompted a cascade of tributes for the trailblazing California Democrat. But it also triggered a bitter fight within the party over who should fill her Senate seat.

Federal prosecutors announced charges Friday against Charles Littlejohn, an IRS contractor they accused of leaking the secret tax information of a major government official and thousands of wealthy Americans to the news media.

Former President Donald Trump has added a nickname to his repertoire of those that he gives out to people he's not fond of, christening fellow Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley as Birdbrain.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy brushed off any concerns that Republican lawmakers are gunning for his job, but the looming government shutdown is haunting the California Republican.

Since taking over the United Auto Workers union in April, Shawn Fain has demanded increased government subsidies for the auto industry and resurrected the class-warfare rhetoric the labor union had abandoned decades ago.

Climate activist Kai Newkirk says he is ready and willing to meet with President Biden about his climate policies following the activist's disruption of the president's speech in Arizona Thursday.