Politics & Policy

Failing to sign the bill will mean pain for those struggling to make ends meet and a potential federal government shutdown in the middle of a pandemic.

A bipartisan committee made 97 recommendations on how to modernize the way Congress works and improve relationships between Democrats and Republicans.

Republicans in key states that voted for President-elect Joe Biden already are pushing for new restrictions, especially to absentee voting.

President Donald Trump spent his Christmas golfing in Florida as a government shutdown looms and COVID relief hangs in the balance.

They are set to reconvene again Monday and have informed lawmakers at the European Parliament that they intend to decide on the preliminary application of the deal soon.

Republicans could use the first weeks of 2021 to fast-track a constitutional amendment that would remake the Democratic-majority state Supreme Court.

Of 75,000 people who applied to the PHFA program, fewer than 27,000 got assistance.

The president's last-minute objections are setting up a defining showdown with his own Republican Party in his final days in office.

The review provides a statistical assurance that there were no errors in the state's declaration of Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election.

Republicans led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have resisted $2,000 checks as too costly. They have not said if they will block the vote.

Democrats in the majority in Dover plan to reconvene the state legislature via video conference next month. Republicans say that will stifle public input.

The invitation from the White House for Wednesday’s luncheon was sent to every Republican in the GOP-controlled chamber.

They say that the illegal and abusive government directives waste money and chill "diversity-related speech across the entire federal workforce."

The Transportation & Climate Initiative would cap emissions from cars, trucks and buses, but likely bump fuel prices by 5 cents a gallon.

Trump's presidency is reflected in a broad range of numbers representing everything from the U.S. death toll during the pandemic to the miles of his “big, beautiful wall."