At 12:01 a.m. ET on Wednesday, the federal government entered its first shutdown since 2018, after two competing funding proposals, one from Democrats and another from Republicans, failed in the ...

The U.S. government posted a higher $284 billion deficit for October in a report delayed and impacted by the recent federal ...

Corporate America loves huge and growing federal government deficits. Few corporate leaders will admit this, but the fact is ...

In the days since a congressional budget impasse caused a federal government shutdown, public attention has largely focused on high-profile impacts like employee furloughs, air travel delays and ...

Union leaders are warning that the simultaneous state and federal budget impasses have already started exacerbating one another, potentially leading to a much broader shutdown in public services than ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House budget office said Friday that mass firings of federal workers have started in an attempt to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown ...

U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn is backing efforts to remove a controversial provision in the new federal budget that would allow ...