The wrangling over an extension of government dominates the agenda for both the House and the Senate this week.

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

Lawmakers are returning to Washington on Monday and seeking to avoid a government shutdown at the end of the week. President ...

Live updates and the latest news as President Donald Trump signs executive orders and Congress works to pass a spending bill ...

Congress is staring down a deadline to fund the government by the end of the week, as the familiar threat of a shutdown looms over Washington.

Congress faces a Friday deadline to approve a new government spending bill to avert a shutdown at midnight—with preliminary ...

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

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Susan Collins (R-Maine), chairwoman of the Appropriations Committee, sai government shutdowns are inherently a failure to govern effectively.

The threat of a government shutdown is looming over Washington yet again. Here's what to know ahead of potential votes.

Government shutdowns occur when the federal government stops all or some of its operations because of a funding gap.

The government is on the verge of a shutdown. Here's what Tennesseans need to know about programs, activities impacted by it.