Senate Democrats aren’t ruling out bipartisan progress on full-year spending bills as Republicans make Pentagon funding the new pressure point in a weekslong shutdown fight. A Thursday vote on the War Department funding bill, teed up by Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), is presenting Democrats with their latest unity test. They have largely stuck together […]

PARIS (AP) — French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu survived a vote of no-confidence Thursday that could have toppled his fragile new government and plunged France deeper into political chaos. The National Assembly vote clears the way for the embattled Lecornu to pursue what could be an even greater challenge: getting a 2026 budget for the European Union’s second-largest economy […]

A group of prominent Democratic women, including several members of Congress and former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, is blasting EMILY’s List for endorsing Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton in the state’s open U.S. Senate race, accusing the group of caving to “money and influence” from Gov. JB Pritzker’s (D-IL) political machine. In a letter obtained […]

Each day on Capitol Hill for the last 16 days is the same: a press conference (or five), lawmaker demonstrations, partisan fights, rinse, repeat. And the phrase “same s***, different day” is becoming a reality as staffers and lawmakers don’t see an end to the government shutdown in sight. Both House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Minority […]