After days of threats and demands, Donald Trump had little to show for it once lawmakers passed a budget deal in the early hours of Saturday, narrowly averting a pre-Christmas government shutdown.

A series of Senate votes last week on changes to Social Security shows how difficult it will be for Congress to address the program's financial problems.

Mark Burnett, the power producer who helped reintroduce Donald Trump to a national television audience with "The Apprentice," is being tapped by the president-elect as special envoy to the United Kingdom in his upcoming administration.

President-elect Donald Trump is suing to halt the Biden administration's sale of border wall parts, arguing that the act is "possibly criminal."

President Biden on Saturday signed Congress' short-term government funding extension, officially averting a partial shutdown after a week of high drama.