The Senate has swiftly approved legislation that would allow the District of Columbia to keep its budget intact.

Washington, D.C., which has often had a tenuous peace with the federal government when Republicans controlled Congress and ...

Rep. Laura Friedman's amendment has 60 Democratic co-sponsors and seeks to prevent Donald Trump from "illegally withholding" ...

The district is also facing up to $1 billion in federal funding cuts due to a Republican continuing resolution bill.

Democrats were confronted with two painful options: allowing passage of a bill they believe gives President Donald Trump vast ...

Listen, there was a real chasm revealed in this fight over how to proceed on this funding bill. You had Nancy Pelosi openly ...

Congress is staring down a deadline to fund the government by the end of the week, as the familiar threat of a shutdown looms over Washington.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, a former speaker of the House, broke with Schumer in encouraging lawmakers to follow the ...

The House-passed spending bill would cut the Washington, D.C., government's 2025 budget by 16% — cuts local officials have described as "potentially devastating." ...

Ex- U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema called out prominent liberals for endorsing the filibuster during a recent vote on a ...

"I have not seen such uniting anger across the party in a long, long time," Charlotte Clymer, the Democrat behind the ...

The Senate approved a separate bill that allows D.C. to continue operating under its current budget, which seemed on track to ...