In the absence of last-minute action from Congress, a shutdown would start at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, so its effects would not be immediately felt until Monday.

Economic Policy Congress dodged a shutdown but may get an ugly December spending fight. Lawmakers have yet to agree on how much money in total the government should spend next fiscal year, besides ...

WASHINGTON — Congress struck an eleventh-hour deal to avert a government shutdown during the holidays, but in the process, it lengthened an already extensive to-do list for the first year of ...

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma criticized the Congress for its silence on cow slaughter during 'qurbani' and the alleged throwing of beef near religious places. Sarma asserted that the BJP ...

A shutdown happens when Congress fails to approve the funding bills, called appropriations bills, that promise money to different parts of the federal government so they can function.

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.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said he expects Congress to extend the existing government budget into early next year to avert a shutdown in December—setting the stage for Republicans to ...

Arizona lawmakers say they've come to a deal on a bipartisan budget plan to avoid a government shutdown at the end of the ...

With minutes left before a government shutdown deadline in 2009, the House speaker turned off the clocks to allow more time ...

From the return of red-light cameras in Tempe to Arizona Senate and House Republicans reaching a bipartisan deal, and a new ...

Kari Lake told Congress the U.S. Agency for Global Media is “rotten to the core" and said it would be shut down by 2026 under ...

The Department of Defense is abruptly shutting down a satellite program that meteorologists say is crucial to hurricane ...