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 ...

Lawmakers have until Sept. 30 to extend government funding. Internal Republican divisions are posing a problem for Speaker ...

"We cannot have a government shutdown," Mitch McConnell, said. "It would be politically beyond stupid for us to do that right ...

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

The U.S. government is about a week away from another potential government shutdown. The deadlock mirrors the situation the ...

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

As Congress nears a shutdown, find out how it could impact federal workers, Social Security, national parks and more. What you need to know now.