WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump told reporters he may lay off “a lot” of federal workers in a looming federal shutdown. The White House Office of Management and Budget had asked agencies for plans ...

Senate Democrats say they won't vote for it unless Republicans include an extension of expiring health care benefits, among other demands.

State officials are doing what they can to connect Marylanders with food, housing, health care and financial resources ahead of a looming government shutdown. What they can't do is make the White ...

Federal workers who took the Trump administration's buyout offer come off the payroll at the end of September. Now some are confronting fear, regret and uncertainty as they figure out what's next.

Congressional leaders met with President Trump at the White House as Washington barrels toward a 2025 shutdown.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic and Republican congressional leaders are heading to the White House for a meeting with President Donald Trump on Monday in a late effort to avoid a government shutdown, ...

After canceling an earlier meeting, President Trump is planning to meet with a bipartisan group of Congressional leaders on Monday. Congress must pass or extend a spending bill before Oct. 1 to ...

Democratic leaders said the administration’s plan to fire government workers in the event of a shutdown would not prompt them to drop their demands in their spending standoff with the G.O.P.

The White House has warned federal workers there will be more mass firings if Congress is unable to agree on a stopgap funding measure by the end of the month.

Programs that did not benefit from an infusion of mandatory appropriations will bear the brunt of a shutdown,” the Office of Management and Budget said in the memo, which the White House provided.

The White House is threatening to use a looming government shutdown to permanently hollow out federal agencies. It comes with the funding deadline, which lawmakers appear almost certain to miss, just ...