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

Congress is moving head-first toward a government shutdown after the Senate voted down a pair of stopgap spending bills, ...

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

Congress is cruising at a steady clip toward a government shutdown at the end of the month, with both parties — and both ...

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

The approach I originally would have urged was best articulated by Bill Scher of Washington Monthly: Instead of Democrats ...

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

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

The Senate must pass a Republican-proposed short-term spending bill by Sept. 30 to avoid a government shutdown, amid ongoing ...

U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Hot Springs, is optimistic that his SPEED Act will make it into law before the end of the year, ...