The U.S. Senate will prepare temporary spending legislation that would avert a partial government shutdown at the end of the ...

The Senate will advance a bipartisan stopgap government funding bill on Thursday after efforts to pass a similar measure in ...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced Thursday that he will act later in the day to advance a bipartisan ...

Speaker Mike Johnson expressed his disappointment after the GOP-controlled House rejected his latest spending bill, leaving ...

It ran from Dec. 22, 2018 to Jan. 25, 2019, during the Trump administration. At 34 days, it was the longest government ...

Andy Biggs and Eli Crane, two of Arizona's Republican congressmen, were key holdouts for a GOP-led funding plan as a government shutdown loomed.

The deadline for a potential government shutdown is September 30 if lawmakers fail to agree on a budget. However, the chance ...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has taken steps that will give the Senate the option to set up a vote next week on a ...

With the federal government set to run out of money at the end of the month, will you get an October Social Security check?

The federal government shuts down in less than two weeks and the latest effort to keep the government’s doors open failed ...

Congress has 12 days left to approve a short-term government funding bill before the shutdown deadline, though leaders in the ...

The legislation, which would fund the government for about six months and require proof of citizenship to register to vote, fell short.