Follow live updates and the latest news as government funding is set to expire on Saturday if Congress fails to pass a ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson appeared headed for defeat before two Republicans switched their vote, delivering him a majority.

Another funding bill. A debt limit extension. Major party-line bills on immigration and taxes. Nominations. Trump tried to ...

President-elect Donald Trump, following the lead of his edgelord chancellor Elon Musk, has given Democrats a gift that ...

However, Congress has passed legislation to pay service members during specific government shutdowns in the past.

Hours to go before a midnight deadline, the Senate is preparing to give final approval to a new plan from Speaker Mike ...

Republican lawmakers have now clawed back half the investment the Biden administration made in the tax agency.

Congress passed a bipartisan deal spending deal after Donald Trump and Elon Musk tanked an earlier bill. The government did ...

Congress hasn’t seen a shutdown in roughly six years. During the last one, in 2018 and 2019, thousands of federal workers were furloughed or experienced disruptions in pay. Because Congress had ...

The Senate approved legislation early Saturday to extend the federal budget into the spring, averting a government shutdown. ...

Congress struck an 11th-hour deal to avert a government shutdown during the holidays, but in the process, it lengthened an already extensive to-do list for the first year of President-elect Donald ...