This week’s bill to keep the government funded is the first big issue where Democrats have leverage, because Republicans need ...

Rep. Jim McGovern scoffed at Republicans who insist that Democrats should help them avoid a government shutdown set for March ...

Speaker Mike Johnson is eyeing a Tuesday vote in the House for a stopgap funding bill, but the path to passage in both ...

The Republican stopgap spending proposal that would avert a government shutdown is up against the key hurdle of clearing the ...

Susan Collins (R-Maine), chairwoman of the Appropriations Committee, sai government shutdowns are inherently a failure to govern effectively.

Congressional Democrats ... are not only planning on voting for a government shutdown, they are craving it,” Rep. Tom Emmer, ...

President Donald Trump is making calls on Monday to potential holdouts on a plan to avoid a government shutdown at the end of ...

Former President Donald Trump is pursuing his policy priorities on trade, the war in Ukraine and shrinking the federal government, while a government spending fight looms for congressional Republicans ...

Live updates and the latest news as President Donald Trump signs executive orders and Congress works to pass a spending bill ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is signaling that the Trump administration has finished its dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

The threat of a government shutdown is looming over Washington yet again. Here's what to know ahead of potential votes.

Centrist Democrats are keeping them guessing. Heading into Tuesday’s vote to fund the federal government, almost a dozen House Democrats in Trump-won districts have yet to reveal if they’ll join ...