A government shutdown occurs when Congress fails to approve new spending for federal agencies. The current spending law, which former President Joe Biden signed in December, expir ...

Republicans are pitching the strategy as a way of avoiding a politically damaging shutdown fight while giving President Trump ...

GOP senators told Musk about an obscure legislative tool that could bring legal heft to his effort and enshrine the cuts into ...

Large swaths of the U.S. government would be forced to stop operating at midnight on March 14 if Congress does not pass ...

White House officials have prepared an executive order directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to begin the process of ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson aims to hold a vote on Tuesday on a bill ...

House debate over a bill that would provide care for laid-off federal workers devolved Wednesday into a partisan squabble ...

By contrast, Trump is using a campaign ostensibly against “unelected bureaucrats” to slash programs that help veterans, farmers, poor people and the elderly. Abroad, he is backing away from the ...

Gov. Wes Moore said Wednesday that he is actively preparing for the federal government to shut down at the end of next week, ...

A government shutdown crisis can seem like the "boy who cried wolf" story of American politics. Democrats and Republicans in ...

Current funding expires at the end of Friday, March 14. If a funding bill is not passed, then the government will see itself ...