Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters that he thinks "there are people who realize this has gone on long enough and there's been enough pain inflicted on the American people and it's time ...

The government shutdown is poised to become the longest ever this week as the impasse between Democrats and Republicans has dragged into a new month.

"I'll be honest with you, I don't think any of us expected that it would drag on this long. We didn't believe, we couldn't have imagined," House Speaker Mike Johnson told a news conference arranged t...