Hakeem Jeffries and House Democrats are ready to seize on the first big leverage point of President Donald Trump’s second term, lining up against a bill to avert a government shutdown this week.

Senate Bill 58 would prevent the state’s attorney general from challenging presidential executive orders. The legislation was introduced just months after Democrat Jeff Jackson won his race for ...

Senate Democrats are leery of blocking a House Republican-drafted six-month government funding bill, fearing a government shutdown may backfire on them politically by giving Elon Musk and the ...

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., arrives for a closed-door meeting as House Republicans push ahead with a with a go-it-alone strategy on an interim GOP spending bill that would keep ...

Legislation focusing on how to handle the most disruptive students in classrooms passed the state Senate unanimously. The bill now goes to the House of Delegates, which earlier in the regular ...

WASHINGTON — The House passed legislation Tuesday to avert a partial government shutdown and fund federal agencies through September, providing critical momentum as the measure now moves to the ...