SHUTDOWN SCARIES — There was a moment midway through House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark’s town hall in Waltham over the ...

Lawmakers are returning to Washington on Monday and seeking to avoid a government shutdown at the end of the week. President ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Republican-controlled U.S. Congress looked set to move ahead this week to keep the government ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is looking to lock down the votes to pass his stopgap funding bill and avert a government shutdown by Friday’s deadline, as he works to keep the lights on in ...

The wrangling over an extension of government dominates the agenda for both the House and the Senate this week.

Funding for the federal government runs out at the end of Friday, and the race is on for Congress to avoid a shutdown.

Republicans may not have the votes to keep the government open ahead of a Friday shutdown deadline, despite the fact that ...

is teeing up the bill for a vote on Tuesday despite the lack of buy-in from Democrats, essentially daring them to vote against it and risk a shutdown. He also is betting that Republicans can muscle ...

Months before the Sept. 30 deadline, Republican leadership in the Michigan House quickly unveiled and voted through their ...

House Republicans unveiled a spending bill Saturday that would keep federal agencies funded through Sept. 30, pushing ahead with a go-it-alone strategy that seems certain to spark a major ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said a government shutdown could happen if Congress fails to pass a temporary funding bill but ...