Category: <span>Political News</span>

To understand how American politics got the way it is today, it helps to rewind the tape to the presidential campaign of John McCain—specifically to his effort to win back a […]

See the USA Today’s latest political cartoons featuring local, state, national and international issues and topics from April 2019. Click here to view the April cartoons.

A government shutdown is when non-essential discretionary federal programs close. It occurs when Congress fails to appropriate funds. In the normal budget process, Congress appropriates funds by September 30 for the following fiscal year. When that doesn’t happen, it enacts a continuing […]