President Trump achieved his goal of shrinking the work force. But many current and former officials say the government is ...

Saint Augustine There is an ancient saying, attributed to Aesop: “We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to ...

The 2025 government shutdown is hours away from breaking a record to be the longest-ever in history. The prior record was held by the 2018-2019 government shutdown during President Donald Trump's ...

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 29: U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) (L) and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) deliver remarks following a meeting with U.S. President Donald ...

But neither of those things happened. Outgoing President Joe Biden punted the decision to incoming President Donald Trump, and after a dramatic few hours where TikTok took itself offline in the US, it ...

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., on Monday. (Jose Luis Magana/AP) The U.S. federal government shutdown is still ongoing and will drag on at least into next week, with both houses of ...

A tour group passes the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 13. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images) The longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history came to an end on ...

The House on Wednesday passed a bill to reopen the government, sending it to President Trump’s desk and setting up the end of the longest shutdown in U.S. history. That vote came after eight members ...

At 12:01 a.m. ET on Wednesday, the federal government entered its first shutdown since 2018, after two competing funding proposals, one from Democrats and another from Republicans, failed in the ...

The federal government entered a shutdown at midnight on Oct. 1 when lawmakers failed to pass new funding bills. It’s unclear how long the stalemate will last, and lawmakers do not appear to be any ...

With bipartisan congressional talks to end the U.S. government shutdown bogging down on Friday, the hit to the national economy is growing, experts said. "Even if there is a reopening of the ...

Nikole Killion is a CBS News congressional correspondent based in Washington D.C., who has covered some of the biggest stories on Capitol Hill since 2021. Killion has also served a key role in CBS ...