Cece Cordon had been living in a used recreational vehicle for a few months with her husband and toddler when Hurricane Helene swept through Hendersonville, N.C., last September, killing more than 100 ...

Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are funded separately from other Congress-funded programs and are generally unaffected by government shutdowns, Maheshri says. However, benefit administration ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday defended his opposition to a one-year extension of Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies, a proposal backed by a handful of moderate ...

Here’s what to know about how the government shutdown affects the federal workforce—who keeps working, who gets paid, and who ...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump continued to up the stakes in his battle with congressional Democrats over the ongoing shutdown, saying some furloughed federal workers “don’t deserve” back pay ...

The White House is wielding the new threat of no back pay for furloughed workers as a tactic to pressure Democrats to end the weeklong government shutdown. The previous shutdown ended with ...