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

Republican and Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill say Washington is headed for a government shutdown next week unless President Trump intervenes to cut a deal with Democrats. Senate Majority ...

Republicans leave Washington, D.C., without funding deal as President Donald Trump calls potential government shutdown likely ...

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.

Ryan Wrasse channels his boss, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), as a polished exemplar of Republican leadership on ...

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

The Senate action came just hours after the House sent them the short-term funding bill. The Senate voted to block that ...

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.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) is inviting the Senate sergeant at arms and the chief of the Capitol Police to brief GOP senators at lunch on Tuesday to discuss "member security," according ...

The government runs out of funding as the clock strikes midnight from Tuesday, Sept. 30 to Wednesday, Oct. 1. To avoid that shutdown, Congress must pass either a short-term funding bill, called a ...

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