John Wilkerson is a Washington correspondent for STAT who writes about the politics of health care. He is also the author of the twice-weekly D.C. Diagnosis newsletter. WASHINGTON — Congress failed to ...

After the Senate passed a stopgap funding bill that does not include extended Affordable Care Act tax credits, U.S. Sen.

DHS officers — including at ICE — will get paid during shutdown, Noem says Law enforcement officers from the Department of Homeland Security will be paid if they work during the government shutdown, ...

Hours before a government shutdown, Democrats and Republicans angrily blamed each other and refused to budge from their positions Tuesday, unable to find agreement or even negotiate as hundreds of ...

WASHINGTON — House Republicans signed off legislation funding the federal government through November, potentially avoiding a shutdown at the end of this month. The bill keeps most agencies funded at ...

WASHINGTON – Hoping to steer the country away from an impending government shutdown, the House of Representatives narrowly passed a short-term funding bill Sept. 19. But the funding extension is ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Republican measure to keep the government funded until Nov. 21 stumbled in the Senate after clearing the House on Friday, leaving lawmakers without a clear path forward to avoid a ...

Neither Republicans nor Democrats blinked less than 24 hours into a government shutdown as an attempt to pass a government funding extension failed again Wednesday. Despite Republican leaders ...

The measure needed 60 votes to pass but failed. Two Democrats and one independent senator who caucuses with the Democrats voted once again with Republicans in supporting a GOP-backed government ...

As the Senate prepares to pick up the fight over government funding next week, Republican lawmakers are looking to pick up five more Democratic votes in favor of their bill to end the dayslong ...