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 ...

Washington — Congress is barreling toward a deadline to avert a government shutdown in just over two weeks, with Democrats and Republicans at odds over whether there should be guardrails on ...

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 ...

The Trump administration has withheld millions of dollars worth of federal education grant funding from schools in South ...

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

It’s a widely accepted adage that business thrives on certainty. Tell them the rules and businesses will deploy their capital ...

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 ...

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

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

I mean, nobody knows what I’m going to do.” Trump’s justification for a strike was undermined in advance by Director of ...