President Trump reiterated the layoff threat Monday but the hardball tactic isn't likely to break the shutdown impasse.

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Doug Thornell, the CEO of consulting firm SKDK, who advised the polling project and works with Democrats including Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, called crime “personal and emotional to voters, and they ...

Utah’s revised map creates some uncertainty in a state that was thought to be a clean sweep for the GOP. Nationally, Democrats need to net just three House seats next year to wrest control of the ...

The House is not expected to be in session this week, focusing attention on the Senate to take the lead on any deal in the Republican-led Congress.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill are "ready to sit down to work things out," after President Donald Trump said Monday that he'd be open to striking a ...

Top Virginia Democrats have sharply criticized attorney general nominee Jay Jones for suggesting that a colleague be shot in newly revealed text messages but are stopping short of calling on him to ...

President Trump on Monday called on Democrats to reopen the government, saying he will only discuss a potential deal on extending health care tax credits once they support the GOP funding ...

The Democratic Party has made no secret of the need to reconnect with young male voters, a demographic that drifted toward Republican Donald Trump in the last presidential election and will be key in ...

President Donald Trump's tightening grip over the Justice Department to target his political opponents and lawmakers' increasing calls for the release of more files from federal investigations into ...

Most Americans, regardless of party lines, disapprove of the handling of the government shutdown, which is now in its sixth day.  But President Trump and Republicans fare worse on how the shutdown ...

Congress was no step closer to ending the government shutdown after the Senate rejected, for the fifth time, plans to reopen the government.