More from Government shutdown 2019: what you need to know about the border wall spending fight


The government’s funding ran out for the second time in three weeks.


There’s “confusion and frustration” as Democratic leadership sends mixed messages about a possible shutdown over DACA.


Democrats are trying to change the terrain of the immigration debate.




“We don’t see it”: Activists don’t think Democrats won the shutdown fight.


The so-called “Common Sense Coalition” wants to be a new force in the Senate.


Sen. Susan Collins’s plan seemed to be working — until one senator reportedly threw the stick forcefully toward another.


Why did the government shut down?


But there’s still a lot of work to do.


Democrats are funding CHIP for six years and reopening the government without losing their shutdown leverage.


A victory for children’s health care, but the fate of DACA recipients is still to be determined.


What Senate Democrats got — and didn’t get — to end the shutdown.


The short of it: You can file a tax return, but don’t expect a refund soon.


Democrats are adopting tactics they condemned in the Obama years. But they still want to compromise.


Republicans “aren’t capable of doing the first task of a government,” wrote one French reporter.


Democrats know what they want. Republicans have no idea.


Research is stopping, and employees don’t know what to expect.


Troops still fight America’s wars during the government shutdown — but for free.


Nearly all VA employees work despite other agencies scaling back.


Mail and post offices aren’t affected.


Poor families are especially at risk.


The shutdown could keep patients from life-saving experimental treatments.


Their salaries are literally written into the Constitution.


It’s day three of the government shutdown and still “no deal.”

