Government shutdown deadlines — and even full-on shutdowns — aren’t new for Washington, but this time, with federal funding ...

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has announced he's ready to start the process of considering a Republican-led spending ...

Washington, D.C., is in budget limbo ahead of budget cuts on Capitol Hill as the Senate prepares to vote on funding to keep ...

House Republicans advanced a stopgap bill Tuesday to fund the government until October, putting moderate Senate Democrats in ...

Republicans argue they have no plans to touch Social Security, Medicaid or Medicare. “They just made it up. They didn’t read ...

A government shutdown would also add to an already chaotic federal government, as Trump and advisor Elon Musk have laid off ...

The Senate plans to take up a House-passed bill to fund the government through September beginning on Friday, which needs the ...

Schumer said he would help advance a GOP spending bill because a shutdown "has consequences for America that are much, much ...

Thanks to the 2019 Government Shutdown Prevention Act, if there is a shutdown Friday, 11:59 p.m., eventually back pay must be provided to the majority of furloughed workers. However, with the ...

Schumer relented one day after he vowed Senate Democrats would thwart the "partisan" measure, saying the "chaos" of a ...

Congress is staring down a deadline to fund the government by the end of the week, as the familiar threat of a shutdown looms over Washington.

"As bad as passing the CR is, allowing Donald Trump to take even much more power via a government shutdown is a far worse ...