For the second time in less than four months, a government shutdown is looming with a matter of hours until a Friday night deadline.

Like any home or business, the federal government must pay its bills: Congress has little time to prevent a government ...

The Senate passed a bill to keep the federal government funded through September Friday evening, avoiding a partial shutdown that would have begun at midnight. Ten Democrats joined with all but one of ...

Speaker Mike Johnson's proposal would fund the government through September, and mostly maintain spending levels passed in ...

The bill puts significant pressure on Democrats in the Senate, whose votes will be needed in order to avoid a shutdown. The ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — House Republicans narrowly passed a stopgap bill Tuesday to fund the government until October, putting moderate Senate Democrats in the tough spot of having to either give the ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Saturday unveiled a short-term funding bill that would keep federal agencies funded through September and fend off the looming government shutdown. The 99-page ...

Schumer said he would help advance a GOP spending bill because a shutdown "has consequences for America that are much, much worse." ...

The 62-38 vote came after days of turmoil among Senate Democrats who were split on either working with President Donald Trump ...

The measure now heads to the Senate where it’s uncertain if Democrats will provide the votes needed to avoid a lapse in ...