WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has seized on the government shutdown as an opportunity to reshape the federal workforce and punish detractors, by threatening mass firings of workers and ...

The federal government shut down at midnight on Wednesday, Oct. 1, after Congress failed to reach an agreement in a bitter standoff over funding the government. The shutdown means hundreds of ...

President Trump redoubled his threat to use the shutdown to slash the federal bureaucracy as Democrats and Republicans dug in for an extended battle. The New York Times Reporting from Washington ...

In the 29 days that the government has been closed, President Donald Trump has not traveled to Capitol Hill to jump-start negotiations, brought congressional leaders to the White House to broker a ...

The authors of the 25th Amendment to the Constitution established and explained the complete order of presidential succession, as well as a series of contingency plans to fill any executive vacancies.