As of Wednesday night, it looked like a path was emerging whereby Senate Democrats would abandon plans to filibuster the ...

What happens to federal employees, air travel and tax filing if lawmakers don’t pass new funding legislation by the weekend ...

Russell Vought and Elon Musk are making congressional funding decisions irrelevant by their own lawless actions, like mass ...

WASHINGTON – It's a bad week to be a Senate Democrat.

Government shutdown deadlines — and even full-on shutdowns — aren’t new for Washington, but this time, with federal funding ...

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has announced he's ready to start the process of considering a Republican-led spending ...

Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat in the Senate, said he would vote to end the filibuster, indicating sufficient support among ...

The odds that the federal government will shut down Saturday morning have risen in recent days as a growing number of Senate ...

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

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

The Senate is finding itself in a familiar position, working to avoid a partial government shutdown with just hours to spare ...

Like any home or business, the federal government must pay its bills: Congress has little time to prevent a government ...