Outgoing Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell, in a speech Friday reflecting on his time in leadership, urged lawmakers to find ways to get things done amid Congress' ongoing government funding meltdown.
 “Folks come to Washington to do one of two

President-elect Donald Trump said Friday that he is picking the head of a right-wing Catholic advocacy group and critic of Pope Francis to serve as ambassador to the Holy See, potentially teeing up tensions with the Vatican. In a post

House GOP leaders laid out a plan Friday to avert the upcoming debt cliff on their own next year, despite President-elect Donald Trump’s insistence that Congress handle it before he takes office. During a closed-door conference meeting Friday afternoon, House

Hours ahead of the expiration of government funding, the White House warned that a shutdown would disrupt the presidential transition process, hampering preparations for next month’s handoff to President-elect Donald Trump. “Transition activities will be restricted,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

House Republicans voted in their closed-door conference meeting to pursue a funding plan that will require Democratic votes and strips out a debt limit measure President-elect Donald Trump is pushing, according to more than a dozen Republicans leaving the meeting.