A stopgap isn't a budget. Here's the mechanical difference between the funding patch the Senate just passed and the appropriations fight still unresolved behind it.

A 155-year-old law, not politics, is what actually forces agencies to furlough workers the moment government funding lapses.

A senator gavels the Senate in, says nothing, gavels out — and that ritual is enough to strip a president of the power to fill vacancies without Senate consent.

For the first time, both chambers of Congress have passed a war powers resolution, telling President Trump to halt the Iran war he launched unless lawmakers authorise it.

The Senate cleared the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which would expand supply and bar large investors from buying single-family homes. The House could vote within days.

Two days before the runoff, Trump backed Collins over Derek Dooley, a late MAGA pick that pits the president against Gov. Brian Kemp.

Hours after signing a $70 billion immigration funding law, the president demanded a third party-line megabill carrying $350 billion for the Pentagon and his election overhaul. McConnell, Collins and Thune are not buying it.