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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is warning that a key move by the Trump administration in the government shutdown impasse is only a temporary Band-Aid — and that lawmakers could soon be forced to reckon with the political quagmire. Johnson held a press conference on the ongoing shutdown on Wednesday, …

Senate Democrats for a 10th time blocked Republicans’ attempts to reopen the government and have ensured that the shutdown goes into next week. That’s because after one final vote series later on Thursday, lawmakers will leave Washington, D.C., for another long weekend after just three short days on the Hill. …

We’re two weeks into the government shutdown. There’s no movement by either side. Is President Trump seemingly relishing it? “The Democrats are getting killed on the shutdown because we’re closing up programs that are Democrat programs that we were opposed to,” the president boasted. “They’re never going to come back …

White House budget chief Russell Vought said Wednesday that he expects the number of federal employees laid off to get “much higher” in the coming days. Vought, who is the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), has led an effort to lay off thousands of nonessential federal …

FIRST ON FOX: Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., believed that Senate Democrats were “in a bad place” after they tanked Republicans’ push to consider the annual defense spending bill on Friday. Thune argued during an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital that Democrats’ decision to vote against the procedural …

The United States government shutdown drags on, marking a pivotal moment in America’s fiscal and constitutional history. President Donald Trump, the negotiator-in-chief, isn’t blinking. He’s swinging the axe at bloated, Democrat-run bureaucracies that have taken trillions from hardworking Americans for decades. While Nancy Pelosi and her party claim “chaos” and …

Members of the U.S. military were poised to miss their first paychecks of the government shutdown on Wednesday, but active duty troops are at least getting some reprieve thanks to the Trump administration moving to reshuffle some Pentagon funds. House GOP leaders have signaled that the White House could do …

House Republicans in battleground districts appear to be closing ranks as GOP leaders dig in on their government shutdown strategy, while the fiscal standoff shows no signs of slowing. Eight House GOP lawmakers whose seats are being targeted by Democrats in 2026 spoke with Fox News Digital this week. And …

With the federal government shut down since Oct. 1, 2025, Washington’s official tourism bureau is reminding Americans to visit the city through its “DC is Open” campaign. The nation’s capital “remains open and ready to welcome visitors with so much to see, do, eat and experience,” the campaign says. “The …

Senate Republicans tried and failed for the ninth time to reopen the government and are starting to believe that Senate Democrats won’t budge until next week. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Senate Democrats again blocked the House-passed continuing resolution (CR) in their push for an extension of expiring …