Like any home or business, the federal government must pay its bills: Congress has little time to prevent a government ...
Top U.S. Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer on Thursday said he would vote to advance a Republican stopgap funding bill, signaling ...
The Senate plans to take up a House-passed bill to fund the government through September beginning on Friday, which needs the ...
Thanks to the 2019 Government Shutdown Prevention Act, if there is a shutdown Friday, 11:59 p.m., eventually back pay must be provided to the majority of furloughed workers. However, with the ...
The odds that the federal government will shut down Saturday morning have risen in recent days as a growing number of Senate ...
Congress is staring down a deadline to fund the government by the end of the week, as the familiar threat of a shutdown looms over Washington.
As of Wednesday night, it looked like a path was emerging whereby Senate Democrats would abandon plans to filibuster the ...
President Trump said Thursday that a government shutdown could cause “very, very high taxes” and said it would be the ...