The government runs out of funding as the clock strikes midnight from Tuesday, Sept. 30 to Wednesday, Oct. 1. To avoid that ...

Democratic leaders have accused President Donald Trump of throwing a tantrum and chickening out after he canceled a meeting ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday scrapped a meeting with top congressional Democratic leaders to discuss government ...

The Senate action came just hours after the House sent them the short-term funding bill. The Senate voted to block that ...

The threat of a U.S. government shutdown surged on Friday, as the U.S. Senate rejected a short-term funding bill to keep ...

Democrats faced a similar decision in March, when Republicans proposed extending funding through the end of the fiscal year, ...

The president canceled a high stakes meeting with Democratic leaders in Congress, accusing them of being unrealistic in their ...

On the same day, Republicans in the Senate also defeated Democrats' version of a government funding extension. Their legislation, which GOP leaders denounced as partisan, would have reversed Medicaid ...

As the government risks running out of money next week, Senate Democrats are under pressure to deliver votes to avoid a ...

Michigan lawmakers have one week to agree on a budget or the government will shut down. This would have wide-reaching impacts across the state.

Senate Democrats on Friday blocked a House-passed bill to fund federal departments and agencies for seven weeks, putting Washington on the path to an Oct. 1 government shutdown. Democrats came ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate rejected competing measures on Friday to fund federal agencies for a few weeks when the new budget year begins on Oct. 1, increasing prospects for a partial government ...