Donald Trump just convinced dozens of Republican hardliners to do what House speakers from John Boehner to Kevin McCarthy ...

President Donald Trump imposed a sweeping 25% tariff on all steel and aluminum imports into the United States on Wednesday, ...

House Republicans passed a stopgap bill to keep government funding at current levels until September. Now the measure heads ...

Senate Democrats are split on backing a bill to avoid a government shutdown. New today: The GOP needs eight Democratic ...

Senate Democrats have vowed to shut down the federal government rather than support a House-approved budget resolution to ...

The vote sets up a showdown in the Senate over a bill Democrats criticize as giving more power to President Trump and Elon ...

California Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff will vote “no” on the House-passed plan to keep the government running through ...

President Donald Trump plans to welcome Micheál Martin, the prime minister of Ireland, to Washington on Wednesday for an ...

In the case of a government shutdown, those workers are put on leave because there isn't money budgeted for their job. The ...

Government shutdowns occur when the federal government stops all or some of its operations because of a funding gap.

The House voted 217 to 213 on a bill to fund the federal government through September and avoid a shutdown that would have ...

Now with the text out, the current plan puts the entire timeline – having lawmakers read the text, advancing it to the Rules ...