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Nov 10, 2025
Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire voted to move to end the shutdown. But her daughter Stefany Shaheen, a congressional candidate in their state, sharply criticized the deal.
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Nov 10, 2025
Airlines brace for further chaos, even as eight Democratic senators broke ranks with their party to back a deal that could end the shutdown.
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Nov 10, 2025
Tras 40 días, un pequeño grupo de senadores demócratas se separó de su partido y votó con los republicanos a favor de una ley que pondría fin al cierre gubernamental más largo de la historia.
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Nov 10, 2025
This is how the shutdown ends?
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Nov 10, 2025
On Sunday the Senate took a crucial step toward reopening the government when a small group of Democrats joined Republicans to advance a bill.
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Nov 10, 2025
Senator Bernie Sanders is backing Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan in her state's Democratic primary race for Senate, his latest attempt to pull the party to the left.
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Nov 10, 2025
On Sunday the Senate took a crucial step toward reopening the government when a small group of Democrats joined Republicans to advance a bill.
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Nov 10, 2025
Two of them are retiring, and none of the others face re-election in 2026.
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Nov 10, 2025
Congress moved closer to ending the government shutdown. We explain what's happening.
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Nov 10, 2025
Plus, a house-size spider web.
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Nov 10, 2025
This is how the shutdown ends?
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Nov 10, 2025
Eight senators broke from the Democratic caucus and agreed to a deal giving Republicans the 60 votes they needed to end the government shutdown. The measure still needs to be voted on in both chambers of Congress.
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Nov 10, 2025
For 40 days, Senator Chuck Schumer kept his caucus unified. But an end approached without Democrats achieving an extension of expiring health insurance subsidies.
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Nov 09, 2025
A small but critical group of Democrats backed legislation to fund the government, providing the votes to move forward with a spending package that would end the shutdown in coming days.
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Nov 09, 2025
A small but critical group of Democrats were said to support legislation to fund the government, providing the votes to eventually end the shutdown.
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Nov 09, 2025
The top Senate Republican sounded hopeful on Sunday that enough Democrats could be brought on board to move forward quickly on a measure that would reopen the government.
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Nov 09, 2025
The president claimed that the Affordable Care Act benefited insurance companies over people, saying he would work with both parties on the issue "once the Government is open."
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Nov 09, 2025
In Michigan, Maine and many other states, primary candidates will decide the party's direction on a host of policy issues, and ultimately whether it has a center-left or left-wing vision.
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Nov 07, 2025
A fight brewing in Massachusetts could preview Democrats' age battles.
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Nov 07, 2025
After weeks of stalemate, Senate Democrats said they were willing to reopen the government in exchange for a one-year extension of health care subsidies. Republicans ruled it out.
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Nov 07, 2025
After weeks of stalemate, Senate Democrats said they would be willing to reopen the government in exchange for a one-year extension of expiring health care subsidies.
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Nov 07, 2025
The government shutdown, now the longest on record, is growing increasingly painful as more Americans start to feel its effects.
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Nov 06, 2025
President Trump has called on Republicans to end the filibuster as both parties search for a path out of the shutdown.
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Nov 06, 2025
The G.O.P. teed up a vote on a new spending package, but Democrats were insisting on a deal that would address expiring health care subsidies.
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Nov 06, 2025
All but two G.O.P. senators voted against a resolution to stop the president from expanding his military campaign against drug traffickers to include land targets inside Venezuela.
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Nov 06, 2025
The G.O.P. teed up a vote on a new spending package, but Democrats were insisting on a deal that would address expiring health care subsidies.
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Nov 05, 2025
State Senator Julia Salazar of New York said the officers accused of assault and sexual abuse in a 2023 case should face consequences.
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Nov 05, 2025
President Trump's declaration that the closure had hurt his party on Tuesday appeared to have stiffened Democrats' resolve and put at least a temporary damper on talks to end the crisis.
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Nov 05, 2025
El presidente Trump y funcionarios de su gobierno indicaron que las consecuencias podrían intensificarse en los próximos días, aunque él se ha mantenido al margen de la crisis.
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Nov 05, 2025
The partisan divisions in Washington are as deep as ever, but some voters in both parties have grown weary of the standoff and want it to end.
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Nov 05, 2025
President Trump and administration officials indicated the fallout could intensify in the coming days, even as he has kept himself at a remove from the crisis.
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Nov 04, 2025
President Trump and administration officials indicated the fallout could intensify in the coming days, even as he has kept himself at a remove from the crisis.
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Nov 04, 2025
Mr. Padilla, a Democrat, held an impromptu news conference to announce he would not run for California's top office.
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Nov 04, 2025
When Republicans sing Kumbaya.
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Nov 04, 2025
Mr. Youngkin signaled his national ambitions with trips to Iowa and South Carolina earlier this year, but he has said little about his future plans.
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Nov 04, 2025
President Trump is showing mounting frustration at his inability to win confirmation of U.S. attorneys in blue states or break the filibuster's grip on the Senate. The G.O.P. has been uncharacteristically uncooperative.
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Nov 04, 2025
When Republicans sing Kumbaya.
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Nov 03, 2025
The former special counsel has told people in his orbit he welcomes the opportunity to present the public case against the president denied to him by adverse court rulings and the 2024 election.
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Nov 01, 2025
Congress is dying in real time.
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Nov 01, 2025
El líder de la mayoría del Senado no está dispuesto a recurrir a la "opción nuclear" para superar la obstrucción parlamentaria demócrata y reabrir el gobierno.
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Nov 01, 2025
Five Republicans just voted with Democrats to block Trump's tariffs. This proves Congress can act. So why isn't it using that same power to address hunger, health care costs or undeclared wars? The New York Times Opinion editor, Kathleen Kingsbury, explains.
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Nov 01, 2025
This is what happens when no one wants to govern.
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Nov 01, 2025
A 2013 attempt to leverage minority power in a health care fight blew up on Republicans. Can today be different for Democrats?
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Nov 01, 2025
Enrollment for A.C.A. health coverage begins Nov. 1, with some staggering price increases. Here is a guide to help you choose a plan while Congress is at an impasse over tax credits.
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Nov 01, 2025
The president attended a Halloween party Friday and called attention to the marble renovation of a White House bathroom.
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Oct 31, 2025
The Senate majority leader is unwilling to pursue the "nuclear option" to blow past a Democratic filibuster and reopen the government.
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Oct 31, 2025
A Senate candidate's popularity reveals the depth of Democratic disaffection.
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Oct 31, 2025
Senators opposed the president's plan to import beef from Argentina and voted three times this week to end his power to enforce sweeping tariffs.
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Oct 31, 2025
The Senate majority leader is unwilling to pursue the "nuclear option" to blow past a Democratic filibuster and reopen the government.
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Oct 31, 2025
A Senate candidate's popularity reveals the depth of Democratic disaffection.
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Oct 31, 2025
The Texas attorney general has escalated the pace of high-profile legal actions, raising concern that his Senate campaign is influencing his law enforcement work.
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Oct 31, 2025
The president said it was time for G.O.P. leaders to get rid of the longstanding rule requiring most Senate legislation to have 60 votes to pass.
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Oct 30, 2025
The court filings added to the legal challenges that James B. Comey's defense team has already raised against the indictment.
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Oct 30, 2025
Dr. Means was set to face questions Thursday from members of a senate health committee. The hearing was postponed.
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Oct 30, 2025
If confirmed as "the nation's doctor," Dr. Means will act as a figurehead of a health care system that she has condemned as broken and corrupt.
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Oct 29, 2025
Significant milestones over the next few weeks could shuffle the status quo. For now, both sides remain dug in as the closure heads into a fifth week.
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Oct 29, 2025
It may take an imperial Congress to correct its flaws.
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Oct 28, 2025
A handful of Republicans crossed party lines to side with Democrats in the first of several votes this week aimed at challenging the president's trade war.
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Oct 28, 2025
Senate Republicans cited a call by the American Federation of Government Employees to pass a funding extension in an attempt to pressure Democrats to relent. The effort fell flat.
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Oct 28, 2025
Three Republican senators whose votes would be needed to advance Amer Ghalib's nomination said they would oppose him, all but assuring it would stall.
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Oct 28, 2025
In a closed-door meeting with the vice president, Republicans vented about a White House plan for Argentine beef they said would hurt ranchers in their states.
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Oct 28, 2025
Readers respond to an Opinion guest essay by Gov. Ron DeSantis and former Representative David Trone.
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Oct 24, 2025
The president said he wouldn't seek congressional approval for his expanding military offensive against cartels, but some in his party believe Congress should weigh in.
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Oct 23, 2025
The president said he would bypass Congress rather than ask for approval for his military campaign against drug traffickers, even as he said it would expand from sea to land.
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Oct 23, 2025
A Republican measure that would pay essential government employees faltered in the Senate, and the G.O.P. blocked a pair of Democratic bills to pay a broader swath of workers.
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Oct 23, 2025
We explain what elected officials aren't doing during the government shutdown.
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Oct 22, 2025
The Oregon Democrat achieved a goal of topping the previous longest speech by a senator from his state.
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Oct 22, 2025
"It's like we have given up," one Republican lawmaker said.
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Oct 22, 2025
Graham Platner, a Democrat, had acknowledged the tattoo this week on a podcast. He also sought to distance himself from old Reddit posts that drew criticism.
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Oct 22, 2025
Phil Brest, a veteran of the judicial confirmation wars, will head the American Constitution Society at a time of legal turmoil.
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Oct 22, 2025
Graham Platner, a Democrat, said he would remove the tattoo. He also sought to distance himself from old Reddit posts that drew criticism.
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Oct 22, 2025
Term limits would help bring our divided nation together.
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Oct 21, 2025
At least four Republican senators, including the majority leader, signaled their opposition to Paul Ingrassia, the president's pick to lead the corruption-fighting Office of Special Counsel.
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Oct 21, 2025
The fact that Paul Ingrassia's nomination got this far illustrates how much antisemitic and hateful rhetoric has been explained away or rewarded by Republicans in power.
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Oct 21, 2025
Lawyers for the special counsel, who investigated Donald J. Trump, denied accusations by Republican lawmakers that he had surveilled or spied on senators as part of his inquiry.
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Oct 21, 2025
At least four Republican senators, including the Senate majority leader, signaled their opposition to Paul Ingrassia, the president's pick to lead the Office of Special Counsel.
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Oct 20, 2025
Representative Robert Garcia and Senator Richard Blumenthal started an inquiry to examine reports of misconduct by immigration agents, focusing on the arrests of citizens.
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Oct 20, 2025
Motions by lawyers for the former F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, sought to dismiss the case in a two-front assault.
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Oct 20, 2025
Lessons from a Democrat who won in a Republican state.
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Oct 20, 2025
Senator Ruben Gallego says Democrats must strategize more shrewdly. President Trump's base has "already set up the field to fight in," he says. "They have all the information and we're just playing catch-up.
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Oct 20, 2025
Lessons from a Democrat who won in a Republican state.
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Oct 19, 2025
The spending showdown has highlighted Republicans' failure to produce an alternative to Obamacare, which many of them assail but concede is too politically risky to undo.
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Oct 18, 2025
The Trump administration risks squandering the progress it has made in securing the border.
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Oct 18, 2025
La medida tiene pocas posibilidades, dada la falta de voluntad de la mayoría de los legisladores republicanos para desafiar al presidente Donald Trump, quien con toda seguridad la vetaría.
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Oct 18, 2025
What explains the Republican Party's posture toward these protests?
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Oct 18, 2025
As the shutdown nears a fourth week, President Trump has pushed his political opponents to further dig in.
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Oct 18, 2025
Why Congress should take up Insurrection Act reform.
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Oct 17, 2025
Democrats are battling each other over age, with the nation's oldest president in office.
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Oct 17, 2025
The bid comes after the Senate rejected a similar measure to curb President Trump's attacks against alleged drug runners in the Caribbean Sea.
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Oct 16, 2025
Democrats want guarantees that President Trump will not continue to claw back spending, ignoring any agreement they strike. But he has promised to keep defying Congress.
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Oct 16, 2025
The former Senate Republican leader has had a series of health episodes, including falls, in recent years. He plans to retire in 2027.
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Oct 16, 2025
For Jon Ossoff, the most endangered Senate Democrat, the shutdown fight could rally support among some voters, but risks alienating others in a state President Trump won in 2024.
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Oct 15, 2025
The top Senate Democrat said the president and Republican leaders had an "obligation to denounce vile rhetoric," even when it comes from within their own party.
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Oct 15, 2025
Mr. Moulton, a 46-year-old fellow Democrat, released a video emphasizing the age difference between himself and Mr. Markey, 79.
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Oct 14, 2025
A two-term Democratic governor, Ms. Mills called herself "battle tested" in an interview. But she faces a Democratic primary before she can challenge the Republican incumbent.
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Oct 11, 2025
The president said he had identified funds even though Congress has not appropriated new money for the military.
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Oct 11, 2025
What the polling says, who's up, who's down — and when it might end.
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Oct 11, 2025
In 1955, a New York Times copy editor refused to say whether he had once belonged to the Communist Party and was subsequently fired.
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Oct 11, 2025
The president's move to fire federal workers and his threats to make others go without pay were aimed at pressuring Democrats to cut a deal to reopen the government. The tactics have fueled Democrats' resolve.
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Oct 10, 2025
Most Democrats left President Trump conspicuously unmentioned as they cheered a potential end to the conflict, reflecting the tricky politics around the war and their party's deep hostility to Mr. Trump.
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