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

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

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 ...

Federal government funding expires on March 14. To avoid a painful shutdown, Congress will need to pass legislation ...

Two Democratic senators from New Jersey, Cory Booker and Andy Kim, said Democrats should not vote for a spending package that ...

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

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 ...

Layoffs are underway at multiple federal departments, according to union sources and termination notices reviewed by USA ...

Trump administration guidelines aimed at dramatically shrinking the size of federal government could diminish services across ...

House Democrats are vowing to play hardball in the partisan battle over government spending, driving to extract steep ...

The job cuts are being imposed unilaterally, without the approval of Congress to shrink or overhaul federal agencies.