Meanwhile, Republicans — who have forced Washington to the brink of shutdowns several times recently in pursuit of budget cuts — are in charge of Congress and the White House ...

Senate Democrats reluctantly joined Republicans to narrowly avert a government shutdown.

Democrats were stuck between two choices they despised: Vote for a funding bill that reflects Republican spending priorities and will give Trump and his allies more leeway to dismantle the federal ...

District leaders say that a proposed cut to the city budget, part of a plan to avert a federal government shutdown, is unfair. The city raises most of its own money but cannot control how it is spent.

Washington — 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. Lawmakers have until the end of the ...

Washington averted a government shutdown after an up-and-down week saw House Republicans offering a united front and resistant Democrats cornered. The key moment on Friday was an early evening ...

Like any home or business, the federal government must pay its bills: Congress has little time to prevent a government ...

Democrats are confronting stark divisions within their party as leaders grapple with their losses in the 2024 election cycle ...

The lawsuit by the director and journalists is the latest legal challenge to the administration’s bid to dismantle the ...

Democrats do not want to repeat the mistakes of last week, when they split over the GOP's stopgap measure to avoid a federal ...