While the blame game in D.C. over the government shutdown gets louder, the effects on the ground so far in Louisiana have been minimal.

Speaker Mike Johnson extends House recess through Oct. 23, maintaining pressure on Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer as the government shutdown continues.

The speaker has been busy making TV appearances, holding press conferences, and even joining C-SPAN's Washington Journal to take calls from viewers.

La., slammed the expiring Obamacare subsidies at the center of the government funding standoff a “boondoggle” as the shutdown approaches the two-week mark with no end in sight.

WASHINGTON – A string of Americans frustrated by the government shutdown called into C-SPAN on Thursday, Oct. 9, to confront House Speaker Mike Johnson.

GOP leadership announced on Friday that the House would be gone another week as the shutdown begins to flirt with record territory. The decision is part of an effort to pressure Senate Democrats to accept the short-term funding bill that passed the lower chamber on Sept. 19.

Amid a government shutdown, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has shut the House of Representatives' doors for the time being.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes threatened House Speaker Mike Johnson with legal action if he didn’t swear in Dem Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva.

Amid pressure around the government shutdown and a discharge petition over the Epstein files, House Republican leaders have kept their members out of Washington.