The Senate in the early hours of Saturday passed a stopgap funding package, avoiding a government shutdown that would have furloughed hundreds of thousands of federal workers and bringing a ...

Lawmakers came together to fund the government on Friday, keeping the lights on in Washington until early next year and preventing a Christmas season shutdown. The package — crafted by Speaker ...

The Senate voted overwhelmingly in the early hours of Saturday to pass legislation to boost Social Security benefits for more than 2 million Americans. The legislation will repeal two statutes ...

The House approved legislation to avert a government shutdown hours before the deadline Friday, sending the bill to the Senate for consideration after a whirlwind week on Capitol Hill. The chamber ...

Republican lawmakers say Congress’s near brush with a government shutdown shows that House Republicans do not have a functional majority, giving them a bad feeling about how difficult it will be ...

President Biden and his administration were largely absent from the onerous negotiations on government funding that gripped Capitol Hill this week. Instead, President-elect Trump and his allies ...

The Senate is slated to vote on the interim funding package to avoid government shutdown on Friday night ahead of the ...

House Republicans are searching for a way to avoid a government shutdown, hours before the late Friday deadline, after their ...

The House on Friday will make another attempt at passing legislation to avert a government shutdown, staging a vote on a ...

White House Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was pressed Friday about why President Biden has stayed out of the public eye ...

The latest government funding proposal being assembled by GOP leaders likely will include some must-pass short-term ...

Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and Tina Smith (Minn.) are reintroducing legislation aimed at strengthening U.S.