Child Care

According to a person familiar with the meeting, President Trump reached out to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and invited him to the White House for the meeting. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump summons Chuck Schumer to White House for shutdown talks

Pete Kasperowicz · January 19, 2018 5:50 pm

The key obstacle to a deal to keep the government running is partisan posturing, and not anything policy-related. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Why any government shutdown will be short

Tom Rogan · January 19, 2018 4:10 pm

OMB Director Mick Mulvaney speaks with reporters outside the White House about a possible government shutdown. Mulvaney said the White House now sees the chances of the government shutting down as "50-50." (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Mick Mulvaney: Chances of a government shutdown are now ’50-50′

Sarah Bedford · January 19, 2018 3:25 pm

If Senate Democrats think that protecting illegal immigrants who were brought in as children is a noble enough policy goal over which to shut down the government, why pretend they're up to anything else? (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Chuck Schumer and friends are about to shut down the government, and that’s OK

Timothy P. Carney · January 19, 2018 1:57 pm

The defense budget has been tied up in the immigration debate and the DACA impasse that partially shuttered the government over the weekend. Senators said the breakthrough Monday could smooth the way for Congress to raise 2018 spending caps and pass an appropriations bill for the Pentagon. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Enough with the constant shutdown showdowns

Washington Examiner · January 18, 2018 1:33 pm

Temporary government funding expires on Friday, Jan. 19, and the federal government would partially shut down unless new legislation is passed into law by then. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

House will vote to fund government until Feb. 16

Susan Ferrechio · January 16, 2018 7:54 pm

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, urges long-term Children's Health Insurance Program funding be extended in next spending bill. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Orrin Hatch urges long-term children’s insurance funding in next spending bill

Robert King · January 9, 2018 3:55 pm

Sen. Marco Rubio and the Wall Street Journal have, for years, clashed over the Florida Republican's advocacy of larger child tax credits, which he succeeded in including in the Republican tax bill. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

Marco Rubio extends tax feud with Wall Street Journal editorial page

Joseph Lawler · January 3, 2018 2:57 pm

Firefighters respond to a building fire Thursday in the Bronx borough of New York. The Fire Department of New York says a blaze raging in the Bronx apartment building has seriously injured more than a dozen of people. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

NYC mayor: Deadly Bronx apartment fire apparently caused by child playing with stove

Associated Press · December 29, 2017 3:37 pm

If a society can't take care of its youngest and most vulnerable residents (newborn babies) then they most certainly will have failed. (iStock Photos)

Beltway Confidential

A tale of two cities: A crisis in DC is endangering pregnant mothers and newborn babies

Mark Vargas · December 22, 2017 5:54 pm

What Next: A Masters in Meter-Maidology?

The Scrapbook · December 22, 2017 9:00 am

The House spending bill to fund the government until Jan. 19 gives the Children's Health Insurance Program $2.85 billion in new funding through the end of March. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

House spending bill gives children’s health insurance new funding

Robert King · December 21, 2017 12:32 pm