Unless Congress can pass a bill to fund the federal government (which Donald Trump then signs) before midnight Friday, the ...

Live updates and the latest news as the Senate turns to a government funding bill to avoid a shutdown and Trump's pick to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A day before a shutdown deadline, Senate Democrats are mounting a last-ditch protest over a Republican-led ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Democrats will be to blame if there is a government shutdown. He pivoted Thursday, ...

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

Senate Republicans are working to gain votes for President Donald Trump's spending bill that was recently passed by the House ...

Democrats and Republicans in the Senate are laying the groundwork for a government shutdown standoff as the clock ticks down.

After meeting with his conference, the Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said "Republicans do not have the votes" to ...

Democrats are stuck between a rock and a hard place as they must choose between shutting down the government or folding to ...

Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday succeeded in a high-stakes House vote to pass President Donald Trump’s plan to fund the ...

A measure to keep the government funded and avert a shutdown passes in the House but has only a few days to pass in the ...

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