Like any home or business, the federal government must pay its bills: Congress has little time to prevent a government ...
For the second time in less than four months, a government shutdown is looming with a matter of hours until a Friday night deadline.
A spending bill to avert a partial government shutdown narrowly cleared a key procedural hurdle in the Senate, paving the way for passage as a midnight Friday deadline loomed. Ten Democrats joined ...
The bill puts significant pressure on Democrats in the Senate, whose votes will be needed in order to avoid a shutdown. The ...
Democrats were stuck between two choices they despised: Vote for a funding bill that reflects Republican spending priorities and will give Trump and his allies more leeway to dismantle the federal ...
Senate Democrats decided not to block a GOP-led funding bill, which many have said fails to do enough to rein in Elon Musk's DOGE.
The 62-38 vote came after days of turmoil among Senate Democrats who were split on either working with President Donald Trump ...
Both Democrats and Republicans have used funding deadlines to their advantage in recent decades, leveraging the threat of a government shutdown to pass spending bills with their priorities attached.
Congress averted a government shutdown Friday just hours before the funding deadline, after the Senate approved a House-passed spending bill that exposed deep rifts within the Democratic Party.
The measure’s fate is uncertain in the Senate, where several Democrats will be needed to cross the 60-vote threshold for it ...
Democrats and Republicans in the Senate are laying the groundwork for a government shutdown standoff as the clock ticks down.
Andrew Stanton is a Newsweek weekend reporter based in Maine. His role is reporting on U.S. politics and social issues. Andrew joined Newsweek in 2021 from The Boston Globe. He is a graduate of ...