Republicans are daring Democrats to vote against legislation that would keep government funding mostly at current levels, but Democrats so far have held firm.

Now that the last-ditch votes have taken place (and failed) in the Senate, the hallways are clearing and lawmakers, staffers and journalists are headed home. The writing is on the wall: when Americans ...

The US government barreled towards its first shutdown in six years Tuesday, with funding expiring at midnight after Democrats fought a war of words with Donald Trump and senators rejected a last-ditch ...

The US government is set to shut down for the first time in almost seven years after last-ditch Senate votes on funding plans fell short. Hundreds of thousands of federal workers deemed not essential ...

The U.S. government is on the brink of the first federal government shutdown in almost seven years, as Senate Democrats voted down a Republican bill to keep funding the government. The 55-45 vote on ...

The suit asks a federal judge to stop the "cynical use of federal employees as a pawn in Congressional deliberations." ...

The US government hurtled toward a Wednesday shutdown as Democrats blocked a Republican stopgap funding package that didn’t address their demands, the latest sign that neither party was likely to fold ...

When a lapse in funding occurs, the law requires agencies to cease activity and furlough “non-excepted” employees. Excepted employees include those who work to protect life and property. They stay on ...

APTOPIX Trump President Donald Trump walks from Marine One after arriving on the South Lawn of the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex ...

The US government faces a partial shutdown from Wednesday unless Republicans and Democrats can agree on a spending bill.

The United States government is headed towards a shutdown after Senate Democrats voted down the last-ditch Republican bill to extend federal funding for seven more weeks. As Republicans only have 54 ...

As U.S. senators waited Tuesday to vote on measures to fund the government, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., did not hesitate to blame his Democratic colleagues for the stalemate on Capitol Hill.