The Washington State Department of Transportation declared an emergency closure of the century-old span near Mount Rainier's ...

With a renewed focus on downsizing government, a flat level of spending for government operations is likely what we will see under a Republican-controlled Washington. The main result from this week’s ...

Democrats do not want to repeat the mistakes of last week, when they split over the GOP's stopgap measure to avoid a federal government shutdown.

Democrats have been sniping at each other in public since Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer helped pass a Republican ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order calling for the dismantling of the Education Department. The Republican president announced his plan Thursday.

4, 2025, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File) Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, walks to the Senate chamber as the Senate works to avert a partial government shutdown ahead of the midnight deadline, at ...

SEATTLE — Washington joined a lawsuit with 20 other states to stop the Trump administration from dismantling the Department of Education, according to a release from the attorney general's office.

The US government has ordered the shutdown of a satellite feed broadcasting the Russian language feed of Radio Free ...

About 130 employees of the Wilson Center were told they were being put on leave, just four days after workers for Elon Musk’s team entered the center.

President Donald Trump's administration wants to halve the State Department budget, cutting more than $30 billion, sources said.

The 216-214 vote pushed the budget plan forward, one more milestone for Johnson, who could only lose a few detractors from ...