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

Congressional Democrats may just surrender rather than risk catching blame for shutting down a government that Republicans ...

MSNBC analyst and former Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill said Monday that if there is a government shutdown, Democrats could ...

House Republicans are looking to what for them is almost unheard of —- approving government funding on their terms with ...

Speaker Mike Johnson will attempt to hold the fractious Republican majority together and muscle the 100-page bill through the ...

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

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

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 ...

Shutting down the government is not an outcome President Trump wants. It is not an outcome Senate Republicans want. It costs money to shut down the government.

Congress has one week to pass a spending bill that would avert a shutdown, but lawmakers from both parties are not on the same page about how they'll move forward.

Congress has until 11:59 p.m. on Friday to pass legislation to keep the government funded. Otherwise, a majority of federal employees will go without pay or be forced to stop working and most ...