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Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said he's all for President-elect Donald Trump's proposed plan to shut down the U.S. Department of ...

NYT: A historically long and divisive fight to choose one speaker. A near default on the federal debt, followed by a mutiny on the House floor and multiple government shutdown scares. The ouster of ...

Trump wants to not just shake up but eliminate the federal education bureaucracy and send it back to the states. Students ...

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The government faces another shutdown in five weeks and members have just returned from a month-long break. Both sides are ...

It’s a huge deal.”Currently, the government is funded through December 20th. To avoid a shutdown, Congress must agree on a budget to ensure funding continues. Representative Warren Davidson (R) of ...

The president-elect's previous experience with a governmentwide 79-day halt to agency hiring could inform his new approach to ...