Air traffic controllers and TSA workers are among the essential employees who are required to work during a shutdown.

Travelers catching flights at Detroit Metro Airport's McNamara Terminal learned about the impact of the government shutdown on travel and the workers who make it happen.

Speaker Mike Johnson was briefly confronted by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene during a private House GOP call on Tuesday.

The federal budget includes billions in funding for low-income Americans that might otherwise struggle to pay their energy bills.

Greene, a Georgia Republican and longtime ally of President Donald Trump, has had some high-profile breaks from her party in recent weeks.

Millions of Americans are set to lose federal food assistance on Nov. 1, unless lawmakers step in. We discuss how food banks are handling the imminent crisis and whether the deadline will push congressional leaders back to the negotiating table.

Republicans and Democrats keep hearing about the negative impact of the shutdown. But they just think those are arguments for the other side to cave.

WASHINGTON -- The pressure to end the second-longest federal government shutdown is gaining new urgency this week as millions of Americans face the prospect of losing food assistance, more federal workers miss their first full paycheck and recurring delays at airports snarl travel plans.