The U.S. Senate cleared a stopgap spending bill Friday that will fund the government through the end of September, sending ...

U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and Cory Booker (D-NJ)—founding co-chairs of the Senate’s first-ever Environmental ...

Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada were among the first Democrats to publicly back the Republican funding bill, arguing that a ...

Troop pay will be protected and money to cover an upcoming pay raise for junior enlisted service members will be secure after ...

The Senate voted mostly along party lines Friday afternoon to pass the House Republican-drafted bill to fund government through September, avoiding a government shutdown only hours before funding ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) announced Friday afternoon that the Senate would begin voting immediately on a ...

The stopgap funding bill has already passed in the House and faces a late deadline tonight in the Senate to avoid a shutdown. While Republicans have a majority in the Senate, they’ll need some ...

The federal firings have affected an estimated 6000 veterans, who make up a disproportionate share of the government ...

Illinois’ junior senator has filed legislation in Washington D.C. that would give veterans fired by the recent layoffs under ...

While various Democrats and disability rights groups have been advocating in recent years for disabled workers to get paid ...

The Department of Education is implementing mass layoffs just days after President Donald Trump suggested the agency should not handle student loans.

As the Trump administration continues its efforts to downsize the federal government with massive staffing cuts, Illinois Sen ...