Live updates and the latest news as U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum kick in and the Senate turns to a government funding ...

Senate Democrats say the six-month government funding resolution that passed the House Tuesday is a “horrible” bill, but there’s growing sentiment within the Senate Democratic conference that it ...

The House has passed legislation to avert a partial government shutdown and fund federal agencies through September.

The measure passed after a massive whip effort by Republican leadership, including Trump and the White House. Nearly all ...

The Louisiana senator has been tapped to consult with the president on a strategy for avoiding a federal default.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville slams Democrats' opposition to the bill protecting women's sports, saying they learned nothing from ...

Top appropriators are still in search of a deal to fund the government with 10 days until a shutdown deadline, as talk in the ...

But that unrelated vote was held open for more than an hour as the GOP whip team worked to ... for the measure in jeopardy. Senate Majority Leader John Thune congratulated the House GOP “for ...

“I think that's why we work so hard to get these folks confirmed, and they're now in a position to make those decisions,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) told reporters Tuesday.

U.S. lawmakers are one step closer to funding the government past a March 14 deadline, but Congress still has serious issues to resolve as they come back to work in the nation’s capital this week.

The Senate GOP has been working in overdrive to confirm key officials for President Donald Trump's administration faster than his predecessors. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and ...

President Donald Trump talks with with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana), center, and Senate Majority Leader John ... Thune, Johnson and their Democratic counterparts, Senate Minority ...