The failure to act by Congress could cause airport lines and other disruptions across the travel industry during a busy ...

With a funding deadline approaching, workers are bracing for the possibility of a disruptive holiday season, which could ...

The House approved legislation tonight to avert a government shutdown roughly six hours before it was set to begin. A ...

The S&P 500 jumped after a November inflation reading helped ease worries. A partial government shutdown, analysts said, wouldn’t have a lasting economic impact.

A short lapse in funding would probably do only modest damage. But it could send a troubling signal about government ...

A partial government shutdown in Donald J. Trump’s first term was the longest in U.S. history. In 2018, during Donald J.

The Senate passed the measure and sent it to President Biden’s desk, shortly after the midnight deadline for funding to lapse.

Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times When Speaker Mike Johnson walked away from a bipartisan deal to avert a government shutdown this week, Democrats cried foul, saying Republicans had put the ...

The president-elect was eager to evade responsibility for the consequences of a potential shutdown even as he blew up a ...

Some workers would be forced to report to work, while others would be furloughed. A government shutdown would have significant consequences for more than two million federal employees. Some would be ...