Congress is in crisis. There’s no clear escape.

Congress is in crisis, with a government shutdown deadline looming.

A Republican senator has a one -man blockade on military promotions with no end in sight.

Republicans are growing frustrated about their lack of a cohesive plan to use their threadbare House majority to stare down Biden and Democrats .

House Republicans are running out of ways to avoid a shutdown.

House Democrats are watching entirely from the sidelines as GOP hardliners warn that cross-aisle cooperation would hasten their attempts to oust McCarthy .

“They’ve taken a sip of majority martini and it has intoxicated some of them to the point where they are walking along, stumbling,” a Democrat says.