The Republican-controlled House passed a short-term bill to avert a government shutdown Friday evening, sending it to the Senate before a midnight deadline.

The Senate passed a stopgap funding bill to avert a federal government shutdown shortly after the midnight funding deadline.

Congress managed to pass a short-term spending bill through both chambers after going through three different versions of it.

Congress narrowly avoided a government shutdown, approving a last-gasp federal funding bill to cap a week whose events could ...

"Tonight the Senate delivers good news for America: there will be no government shutdown right before Christmas," Schumer ...

The stopgap bill is expected to be passed in the Senate in the coming hours. The partial shutdown comes only days before Christmas and New Year's. As of Thursday, the U.S. national debt was at $ ...

President Joe Biden on Saturday morning signed a stopgap funding extension into law, bringing to a close a dramatic turn of ...

Hours to go before a midnight deadline, the Senate is preparing to give final approval to a new plan from Speaker Mike ...

Senators voted to pass a new version of a stopgap spending bill early Saturday morning after the midnight deadline for a partial government shutdown came and went. The Senate advanced the third ...

Congress has limited time to avert a government shutdown by passing a continuing resolution after the latest Trump-backed ...