Funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – commonly known as food stamps – will lapse on Nov. 1, the first time in the program's 60-year history as the consequences of the government ...

A coalition of more than two dozen Democratic attorneys general and governors are suing the Trump administration over its decision to suspend federal food benefits during the government shutdown.

Food security took center stage in the shutdown debate this week as hundreds of thousands of furloughed government workers faced another missed paycheck and 42 million recipients of federal food assis...

Senate Democrats refused on Tuesday to budge in the government shutdown fight despite a call from the largest federal workers’ union to stop the “gamesmanship” and reopen the government, even as Repu...

It is almost as if the country is bereft of a visible first lady.

Republican and Democratic lawmakers remain at a stalemate on finding a government funding solution to end what is now the second-longest shutdown in U.S. history.

As the pain of the longest-ever full government shutdown becomes more acute, and hundreds of thousands of federal workers and military members go without paychecks, the paralyzed U.S. Senate is gettin...