Congress is allocating more than $100 billion in emergency aid designed to address extensive damage caused by disasters after this week's scramble to find consensus on a government spending bill.

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President Biden signed the resolution Saturday morning, hours after the U.S. Senate voted 85 to 11 early Saturday morning to pass the funding bill Despite missing the midnight deadline for President ...

Trump’s demands upended efforts to pass a stopgap spending bill to keep the government funded through mid-March, a measure that also includes more than $100 billion in disaster and farm aid.

Just over an hour later, Trump and Vice-President-elect JD Vance called on Republicans to renegotiate the bill in a joint statement, saying that the current one contained too many "giveaways" to ...

Hours after lawmakers released an eleventh-hour bill to fund the government through the middle of March, Elon Musk weighed in on the proposal. "Ever seen a bigger piece of pork?" he asked in a ...

President-elect Donald Trump dealt Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson a severe blow Wednesday, scuttling a bipartisan spending bill that would have kept the federal government funded into March ...

The measure requires more federal oversight of the 'troubled teen' industry. The House passed the Paris Hilton-championed Stop Institutionalized Child Abuse bill on Wednesday, a sweet victory for ...

In an X post early on Wednesday, Elon Musk attacked the stop-gap spending bill unveiled by congressional leaders on Tuesday night that would keep the federal government funded until March and ...

Should Congress fail to pass a stopgap funding bill, major parts of the government could be forced into a partial shutdown until they do — during which time federal workers employed by the un ...

The Bill Belichick era at Chapel Hill is officially underway. On Monday, Belichick and North Carolina secured their first transfer portal coup after former Holy Cross offensive lineman Christo ...