Six years ago, Trump picked an unwinnable brawl over border wall funding, declaring that “I’ll be the one to shut it down.

The current standoff is a nearly precise inversion of the 2013 showdown over health care that closed government agencies for ...

Democrats and Republicans are flipping the script as Congress heads toward what feels like an inevitable shutdown next week.

West Virginians awaiting U.S. Senate confirmations will have to wait a little bit longer. Due to Senate Democrats dragging out votes on President Donald Trump’s appointees, the Republican majority has ...

Since none of the dozen annual government funding bills have become law on time, all federal workers would go without pay during a shutdown, including those at the Departments of Agriculture, Defense, ...

As Congress inches closer toward a government shutdown at the end of this month, party leaders are entering a messaging ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from immediately deporting ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate rejected competing measures on Friday to fund federal agencies for a few weeks when the new ...

President Donald Trump has put more pressure on Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute his political adversaries, saying it ...

As a possible federal shutdown looms, the Democratic leaders of Congress are demanding a meeting with President Donald Trump to negotiate an end to what they call “your decision” to shutt ...

The Democrats are choosing a tricky path that will require discipline and focus if they are to prevail in winning the ...

Congress is moving head-first toward a government shutdown after the Senate voted down a pair of stopgap spending bills, including a “clean” one proposed by the GOP to keep the lights on for seven ...