New York Republicans are making a last-ditch bid to stop Democrats from moving most local elections outside New York City to even years, when voters turn out en masse to pick the president.
When he was pressed about contacting Republicans to end the shutdown, Hakeem Jeffries said that Republicans only work for Trump, and they don't care if they hurt their own constituents.
Republicans on Friday showed little sign of heeding President Donald Trump's latest call to jettison the Senate filibuster to bypass a Democratic roadblock to reopening the government.
The government shutdown is laying bare the fact that the Republican Party is salivating at the chance to rip social-safety-net benefits away from the poorest Americans, whom they openly view as lazy ingrates.
President Trump is calling on Senate Republicans to end the government shutdown by killing the filibuster – in what he declared would be the “nuclear option” for the GOP. “It is now time for the Republicans to play their ‘TRUMP CARD,’ and…
President Trump wants senators to end the filibuster in the upper chamber, but the move could be risky for both Republicans and Democrats.CBS News' Ed O'Keefe and Taurean Small report.
One month into the government shutdown, President Donald Trump is now calling for Republicans to slash the senate’s 60-vote threshold - a move Democrats tr...
Trump's second term has broken presidential norms at a breakneck pace, but his demand that Republicans initiate the "nuclear option" of ending of the filibuster on Thursday to reopen the government is a Pandora's box senators would rather…
Republicans say funding for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits -- formerly known as food stamps -- will run out on Nov. 1 due to the federal government shutdown, and there's nothing they can do about it. Democrats…
President Donald Trump wants Senate Republicans to get rid of the filibuster rule so they can end the government shutdown that has lasted more than 30 days. If they do this, Republicans could pass spending bills with only 50 votes instead…
President Trump wants Republicans in the Senate to end the filibuster and make way for the government to reopen. CBS News' Zak Hudak and Caitlin Huey-Burns report.