Republicans need help to pass a budget to keep the government running, but Democrats can’t overplay their hand.

A foreign service worker whose pregnant wife was denied emergency medical transport while stationed abroad has filed a ...

President Trump and Elon Musk have spent several weeks slashing federal jobs — often in defiance of legal limits — and there ...

Congress is struggling to strike a deal to keep the government funded as a looming deadline to prevent a shutdown next month ...

The U.S. has roughly one month until the government runs out of money, and the talks to avoid that are a mess, writes Philip ...

Democrats say the Trump administration's moves to reshape the federal government without congressional input make reaching a ...

As Democrats ponder how best to position themselves for a looming spending confrontation, they are finding novel ways to put ...

Democratic lawmakers are already positioning to blame House Republicans for a potential government shutdown in several weeks' ...

Democrats in Congress are growing louder with threats to force a shutdown in March to put the brakes on President Trump’s and ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries last week indicated Democrats would consider using the threat of government shutdown to ...

How long will the federal hiring freeze last? Learn about its implications for government employees, job candidates, and ...

Hell no.” Trump already learned lessons on the toll of a government shutdown in late 2018 and early 2019, when funding to parts of the federal government lapsed for five weeks while he faced off ...