Government shutdown enters eighth week as Johnson faces GOP revolt over DHS funding deal – US politics live

The partial government shutdown has now lasted eight weeks with Congress on recess until 13 AprilVoters in northwest Georgia go to the polls on Tuesday in a congressional race between a moderate Democrat and a Republican backed by President Donald Trump, in a test of Trump’s sway over his base and a possible barometer for the November midterms.The two-way race is to fill a US House of Representatives seat vacated in January when conservative Republican firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene resigned a...