The United States government ground to a halt at 12:01 a.m. Oct. 1, after Congress failed to reach a deal to fund the federal budget. House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, told CNBC on ...

Democrats and their Fake News allies want you to believe it’s all a lie that Democrats shut down the government over free healthcare for illegal aliens. Except that’s exactly what happened. As Vice ...

Democrats and Republicans have sparred over Democratic demands to address health care issues in a government funding bill, with the standoff leading to the first government shutdown since 2019. We’ll ...

No, Democrats don’t want to give free health care to “illegal aliens.” This fight is much bigger than that. On the first day of the government shutdown, Vice President JD Vance tried to claim that ...

PolitiFact is live fact-checking the shutdown, including rhetoric from both sides of the aisle. Send fact-check suggestions to [email protected]. Live fact-checks, updates from the 2025 ...

Your Medicare, Medicaid or Affordable Care Act coverage won’t vanish during the government shutdown, but changes to some benefits and fewer government workers to help could still disrupt care for ...