Washington — Senate Majority Leader John Thune quickly swatted down a Democratic offer to reopen the government and extend expiring health care subsidies for a year, calling it a “nonstarter” as the ...

The ongoing government shutdown, now the longest on record, is rooted in a fierce debate over healthcare subsidies.

Let’s posit, just for the sake of argument, that a South Dakota police officer shot and killed a person merely suspected of ...

The Trump administration appealed to the Supreme Court a federal judge’s order to provide full SNAP benefits for November.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and his Republican leadership team are scrambling for new ideas to end the 38-day ...

Black people have learned to be silent until it is time to speak. And voting is their time to speak up. And I believe that ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune quickly swatted down a Democratic offer to reopen the government and extend expiring health ...

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer proposed a "clean" one-year extension to the expiring health care subsidies.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune quickly swatted down a Democratic offer to reopen the government and extend expiring health ...

Bravo to Senate Majority Leader John Thune and other Republican senators for refusing to even consider President Donald Trump ...

Senators are working through the weekend for the first time since the government shutdown began more than a month ago, hoping ...

The government shutdown, now in its 37th day, showed little sign of ending Friday after Republican Senator John Kennedy of ...