I spent my last days at U.S.A.I.D. in meetings with our civil- and foreign-service leaders, thanking them. Their work with ...

Russell Vought wakes each morning with the cold precision of a man who has learned to confuse faith with power. His pen is a ...

I n the 29 days that the government has been closed, President Donald Trump has not traveled to Capitol Hill to jump-start ...

As Republican and Democratic lawmakers trade blame for the US government shutdown, some have begun to worry that the impasse ...

What’s the point of making a deal when Trump will either refuse to spend money or decide to spend that money on something ...

Carl Hulse is the chief Washington correspondent for The Times, primarily writing about Congress and national political races ...

Since assuming office in January, Mr. Trump and his top aides, seasoned from their first stint in the White House, have ...

At the start of the government shutdown, President Trump posted a video that referred to Russ Vought, head of the White House's Office of Management and Budget, as the Grim Reaper. A new article in ...

Most Americans are yet to feel the pain. Less than 2% of the country’s jobs are in the federal government. The usual shutdown ...

WASHINGTON — When funding lapses and the federal government shuts down, the White House always has a degree of latitude to dictate how, and whom, the impacts hit. And President Trump is using that ...

The impasse to reopen the government has hit day 21 with little sign lawmakers are close to reaching a compromise. Meanwhile, Vice President JD Vance is visiting Israel to bolster the ceasefire deal.

Donald Trump spoke about it to Russell Vought so much that it “weirded out” some of the president’s advisers. Before Russell Vought became the director of the Office of Management and Budget, he was ...