The president’s move to fire federal workers and his threats to make others go without pay were aimed at pressuring Democrats to cut a deal to reopen the government. The tactics have fueled Democrats’ resolve.
By Catie Edmondson
Zohran Mamdani, the front-runner in the New York City mayor’s race, and Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, have a kinship shaped in part by their shared opposition to the president.
By Jeffery C. Mays
Most Democrats left President Trump conspicuously unmentioned as they cheered a potential end to the conflict, reflecting the tricky politics around the war and their party’s deep hostility to Mr. Trump.
By Reid J. Epstein, Robert Jimison and Megan Mineiro
It is a well-worn strategy to temporarily create a government benefit and hope that its eventual expiration will create a standoff like the shutdown fight.
By Andrew Duehren
President Trump’s long, avid embrace of social media has been eagerly adopted by his top aides, replacing longstanding governmental norms with online ones.
By Jesse McKinley
What the polling says, who’s up, who’s down — and when it might end.
By Frank Bruni, Kristen Soltis Anderson and Nate Silver
When it comes to education policy, Republicans are now kicking Democrats in the butt.
By David Brooks
The city said that National Guard patrols will start on Friday, adding to an ongoing surge of federal forces in the city.
By Emily Cochrane
The threat of rising Obamacare premiums has been Democrats’ main focus in the public debate, but the president’s defiance of laws, norms and congressional constraints has helped hold them together in opposition.
By Carl Hulse
The basic political conflict in America has changed to something very different than the one putting health care to the fore.
By Nate Cohn
The former Democratic congresswoman, known for her own grilling of executives on Capitol Hill, threatened to abandon an interview after she was asked several follow-up questions.
By Laurel Rosenhall
Republicans in the Senate blocked a measure that would terminate the president’s legally disputed campaign targeting alleged drug runners.
By Robert Jimison
Jack Ciattarelli, the Republican nominee, and Representative Mikie Sherrill, the Democrat, described starkly different visions for the state in a debate Wednesday.
By Tracey Tully, Nick Corasaniti and Taylor Robinson
The roughly five-minute confrontation, initiated by Representative Mike Lawler of New York, was intended to draw attention to Democrats’ role in the government shutdown.
By Michael Gold
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Two Democratic senators from Arizona confronted Speaker Mike Johnson over his refusal to swear in a newly elected House Democrat, Adelita Grijalva, who had won a special election in their state last month. They also fought over the government shutdown and the Epstein files.
By Jamie Leventhal
State leaders have prided themselves on finding bipartisan consensus, but President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops from Texas to Illinois has ripped the veneer off that image.
By J. David Goodman
As the federal closure slides into a second week, Republicans are working to peel off five more Democratic senators to join them in voting to reopen the government.
By Megan Mineiro
Separately, in the administration’s first 200 days, only two of 98 Senate-confirmed appointees to the most senior jobs in government were Black.
By Elisabeth Bumiller and Erica L. Green
Mr. Pearson, a member of the Tennessee General Assembly, was briefly expelled in 2023 after leading a gun control protest from the chamber floor.
By Emily Cochrane
Even President Trump has conceded that he and his party could face political pain from rising premiums, stiffening Democrats’ spines as they demand a subsidy extension.
By Catie Edmondson and Carl Hulse
Attorney General Pam Bondi sidestepped many questions from Democrats during a combative Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, often instead launching personal attacks on her questioners.
By Jamie Leventhal
The government shutdown fight has spotlighted a debate between Republicans and Democrats about whether and how much the government should subsidize health care.
By Margot Sanger-Katz
At a Senate committee hearing, the attorney general avoided answering pointed queries by repeatedly laying into her questioners and casting her responses as a defense of the Trump administration.
By Glenn Thrush and Devlin Barrett
After all, there is “an enemy within.”
By Thomas B. Edsall
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Matt Van Epps won the Republican nomination for a December special election in the state’s Seventh Congressional District. State Representative Aftyn Behn won the Democratic primary.
By Emily Cochrane
President Trump said he was open to making “the right deal” on health care with Democrats. Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, denied any talks were underway.
By David E. Sanger
As Republicans try to pin blame for shutdown damage on Democrats, they are hailing a federal bureaucracy they normally bash as wasteful and overreaching.
By Carl Hulse
President Trump’s attempts to politicize the military have become more overt as he makes the case for having troops at his disposal in American cities.
By Shawn McCreesh
As the president cancels projects in Democratic-run states, he is cutting money that benefits his own party’s lawmakers in some of the most competitive House districts.
By Catie Edmondson
The Democratic representative-elect won her Arizona seat overwhelmingly. But so far, the Republican speaker will not swear her in.
By Michael Gold
Republicans’ exploitation of the government’s closure is the tell that they prefer it this way.
By Frank Bruni
Senator Chuck Schumer and Speaker Mike Johnson each accused the other of not being “serious” about talks to end the shutdown as the government was closed for a fifth day.
By Anushka Patil and Talya Minsberg
Republicans, who hold a governing trifecta, have adopted a mostly passive stance while Democrats dig in for a fight, with both feeling they have the political upper hand.
By Annie Karni
If Democrats don’t win the shutdown fight, millions of young Americans may lose coverage because of higher prices.
By Natalie Foster
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Trump’s exclusionary view of the country strains the bonds of union.
By Jamelle Bouie
The Democrats need to understand that woke can be good business.
By Molly Jong-Fast
This week, the round table convenes to discuss who wins and who loses when the government shuts down.
By Jamelle Bouie, David French, Michelle Goldberg and Derek Arthur
The California politician on his “wake-up call” at an earlier moment of political upheaval, and the one he’s experiencing today.
By Lulu Garcia-Navarro
A West Coast version of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign is playing out in Portland. But the socialist city councilors, who say the city has been “run by the rich” for too long, are facing significant opposition.
By Kellen Browning and Jordan Gale
Just outside New York City, Republicans are using Zohran Mamdani as an attack line for the 2026 midterms, much as they vilified the city in 2022.
By Maya King
A Democrat in a crowded House primary in Colorado is far from the only politician grasping for Taylor Swift-related straws.
By Reid J. Epstein
The federal shutdown was set to stretch through the weekend after Republicans and Democrats failed to win test votes on their competing plans to extend federal funding.
By Catie Edmondson
As a New York State assemblywoman, she began a campaign that finally bore fruit in 2019, when the Legislature extended the deadlines for victims to file claims.
By Sam Roberts
Speaker Mike Johnson said the shutdown shifted authority to the president to determine what parts of the government are essential and also downplayed the president’s previous statements about using that authority to hurt his political opponents.
By Meg Felling
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In the first few days of the government shutdown, many voters expressed frustration over the inability of Republicans and Democrats to compromise.
By The New York Times
The out-of-office responses from the accounts of employees on furlough cast blame for the shutdown on Democrats.
By Eileen Sullivan and Michael C. Bender
El gobierno de Trump detuvo miles de millones de dólares en fondos para estados demócratas mientras preparaba un plan para despedir potencialmente a una multitud de funcionarios públicos.
By Tony Romm
Responses to a news analysis about the possible effects of President Trump’s reprisals. Also: Cultural exchanges; roots of political violence; A.I.
Petros Krommidas, a Democrat, was running for county legislature on Long Island when he disappeared on a swim. A judge sided with Republicans and refused to allow a replacement candidate.
By Corey Kilgannon
A quiet retreat by Democrats from the pre-eminent pro-Israel lobbying group is the latest evidence of a realignment underway in Congress on Israel.
By Annie Karni
Republicans are proposing a straight extension of government spending, while Democrats are demanding the addition of over $1 trillion for health programs.
By Megan Mineiro
Much of the Summer Games in 2028 will take place in Southern California. But two events, softball and canoe slalom, will be held in Oklahoma.
By Jesus Jiménez
The cost of health care is among the major issues dividing Congress.
By Rachel Abrams, Margot Sanger-Katz, Shane Goldmacher, Olivia Natt, Nina Feldman, Stella Tan, Alex Stern, Marc Georges, Michael Benoist, Marion Lozano, Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop and Chris Wood
President Trump has made lowering health care costs a key priority, even as Democrats warn that costs will skyrocket.
By Erica L. Green
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Unlike in shutdowns past, President Trump is the wild card.
By Jess Bidgood
Dueling proposals to end the government shutdown failed in the Senate on Wednesday. There was no end in sight to the deadlock as neither party showed signs of bowing to the other’s government spending demands.
By Jamie Leventhal
The Trump administration forged ahead with plans to conduct mass layoffs, as the fiscal standoff appeared to intensify.
By Tony Romm
President Trump posted the video meme, which Representative Hakeem Jeffries called racist and bigoted. Vice President JD Vance said the president was “joking, and we’re having a good time.”
By Erica L. Green
Two Democratic senators and one independent who caucuses with them crossed party lines to support the G.O.P. plan to keep government funding flowing.
By Robert Jimison
New York Democrats, led by Gov. Kathy Hochul, warned of the damage the government shutdown could cause across the state and blamed Republicans.
By Grace Ashford
Dueling proposals to extend government funding both failed for the third time in two weeks, as neither party could muster the bipartisan coalition needed to move forward.
By Catie Edmondson
Shutdowns started having significant effects after an attorney general in the 1980s argued that it was illegal for the government to spend money without congressional appropriations.
By Ali Watkins
The U.S. government is shut down. Democrats and Republicans failed to agree on a stopgap funding bill, leading to the shutdown. The journalist Molly Jong-Fast argues that the Democrats did the smart thing by refusing to acquiesce to President Trump.
By Molly Jong-Fast and Stephanie Shen
We also look at a gathering of generals in Washington.
By Adam B. Kushner
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The U.S. government shut down on Wednesday at 12:01 a.m. Senator Chuck Schumer explains his decision-making moments before the vote.
By Michael Barbaro, Catie Edmondson, Carl Hulse, Mary Wilson, Carlos Prieto, Asthaa Chaturvedi, Eric Krupke, Rachel Quester, Liz O. Baylen, Marion Lozano, Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop, Pat McCusker and Chris Wood
President Trump is seeking to deprive millions of Americans of their health insurance. Senate Democrats are refusing to acquiesce.
By The Editorial Board
James Talarico sees a spiritual void at the center of our society.
By Michelle Goldberg
The last time Senate Democrats found themselves taking the blame for a government shutdown, they quickly caved. That’s less likely to happen now.
By Carl Hulse
A coalition of blue states and Washington, D.C., accused the Trump administration of illegally “taking money from its enemies” in freezing emergency preparedness grants.
By Chris Cameron
What the looming shutdown is really about: Republicans trying to repeal Obamacare.
By Steven Rattner
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