The government shut down for three days as Democrats insisted that any budget measure come with protections for young ...

The top four leaders on Capitol Hill are each facing high stakes and competing political incentives as they barrel toward a ...

President Trump will host congressional leaders at the White House today with just a day and a half to avoid a government ...

Republican leaders have put forward a temporary funding bill, known as a continuing resolution, that would largely keep ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune vowed that Republicans will hold firm on their seven-week funding bill, insisting that the only way to prevent a government shutdown this week is for Democrats to ...

A possible government shutdown is days away, with the Trump administration and GOP lawmakers locked in a funding standoff with Democrats. Follow for live updates.

President Donald Trump plans to meet with the top four congressional leaders at the White House on Monday, one day before the deadline to fund the federal government or face a shutdown.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune is rejecting Democratic demands on health care as unserious but says a government shutdown is still “avoidable.” ...

The message from the trump administration: we are just fine to go it alone, should a shutdown of the federal government occur next week.

Democratic congressional leaders are dismissing a threat from the White House budget office to fire masses of federal workers during a government shutdown, saying they will not be intimidated into ...

The government runs out of funding as the clock strikes midnight from Tuesday, Sept. 30 to Wednesday, Oct. 1. To avoid that ...

President Trump and GOP lawmakers are itching to make a potential government shutdown as painful as possible for Democrats as negotiations show few signs of progress with less than a week to go ...