Donald Trump, in a long Truth Social post, said the GOP should end the shutdown by doing away with the filibuster to pass legislation.

Senate Democrats on Tuesday voted for the 13th time to block a House-passed bill to reopen the federal government, despite a plea this week by the nation’s largest federal workers union to

The Senate failed for a 13th time to advance a GOP funding bill that would end the government shutdown, now on Day 28. Follow live updates here.

The measure previously passed the Senate in April in a similarly bipartisan vote, but the bill was never considered by the Republican-led House.

A favorable report from the 19-member Republican-majority committee sends four TVA nominees one step closer to a final vote from all 100 senators.

This show of opposition came just as Trump was celebrating what he called a breakthrough in trade talks with China. After meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea, Trump announced that he would lower tariffs on China.

Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are demanding to see the legal justification behind a series of boat strikes in South American waters they argue appear to violate a number of