Senate Democrats are split on backing a bill to avoid a government shutdown. New today: The GOP needs eight Democratic ...

Donald Trump just convinced dozens of Republican hardliners to do what House speakers from John Boehner to Kevin McCarthy ...

Senate Democrats have vowed to shut down the federal government rather than support a House-approved budget resolution to ...

House Republicans passed a stopgap bill to keep government funding at current levels until September. Now the measure heads ...

The Democratic grappling reflects a larger question confronting the party: When to fight and when to fall in line?

California Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff will vote “no” on the House-passed plan to keep the government running through ...

The House GOP's campaign committee is taking aim at congressional Democrats for voting against a measure to fund the federal ...

The House of Representatives passed a spending bill Tuesday to fund the government through the end of September and avert a ...

The vote sets up a showdown in the Senate over a bill Democrats criticize as giving more power to President Trump and Elon ...

Let the Republicans fund the government or shut it down. Democrats should stand back and let them own whatever comes next.

In the case of a government shutdown, those workers are put on leave because there isn't money budgeted for their job. The ...

Government shutdowns occur when the federal government stops all or some of its operations because of a funding gap.