The government shutdown has reached Day 31, and by Monday it'll tie the longest funding lapse in history. Will Senate vote ...

More than 34,600 SNAP recipients live in Knox County, and around 34,200 SNAP recipients live in Hamilton County, which contains Chattanooga. Here are the top five counties in Tennessee ranked by the ...

Since the shutdown began on Oct. 1, Democrats and Republicans have been locked in a stalemate over government funding. They ...

The filibuster is a long-standing tactic in the Senate to delay or block votes on legislation by keeping the debate running.

Senate Democrats who had pushed vociferously for the filibuster’s elimination just four years ago are using it to try to ...

As President Trump continues to assume the powers of Congress for himself, even going so far as to admit in private ...

For years, Republicans have been blaming their inability to get anything done on transgender people, and out Rep. Mark Takano ...

Wu and other officials will brief reporters Friday on the local response to the looming suspension of federal SNAP benefits ...

More than 6,500 Cambridge residents could lose assistance from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on November 1 as ...

Governor Lee said Tennessee cannot use state dollars to replace federal benefits, but the state is working with nonprofits, ...

Some GOP officials want to end the shutdown by doing away with filibusters once and for all. The president now wants the same ...

The government shutdown could soon take food off the table for more than a million Georgians who rely on SNAP benefits — leaving many families anxious.