By a matter of minutes, the federal government averted yet another shutdown. Fingers are again being pointed to determine ...

Statement: Government shutdowns in 2013 and 2018 “cost our economy billions of dollars each.” In a video, Jacobs added that a ...

Congress narrowly avoided a government shutdown, needlessly injecting chaos and dysfunction into what should be an easy time ...

Democrats and some conservatives opposed the new funding bill, which was crafted after President-elect Donald Trump blew up an earlier bipartisan agreement.

Despite the threat of government shutdowns, the government never actually shuts down, but instead creates more government jobs and wastes more money through the increased bureaucracy required to ...

This week’s events were a preview of the perils of governing that face Trump and Republicans in Congress, despite their ...

Johnson tried to placate Trump by bringing up a slimmed-down, 116-page version of the bill on Thursday. It included disaster ...

People reacted with a mixture of relief and indifference to news Saturday that a government shutdown had been averted after a ...

The president-elect soon joined in the cajoling. "If there is going to be a shutdown of government, let it begin now, under ...

Lawmakers came together to fund the government on Friday, keeping the lights on in Washington until early next year and ...

The House approved legislation tonight to avert a government shutdown roughly six hours before it was set to begin. A ...

Congress has until midnight Friday to come up with a way to fund the government, or federal agencies will shutter.