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

The US government is once again staring down a potential shutdown, and one that might start a month before tax returns are ...

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 ...

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

The government had been preparing to shut down the program that ships free coronavirus tests to American households and was ...

Democrats on Capitol Hill have been largely powerless to stop President Donald Trump, but they are closing in on one looming ...

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

Senate Republicans have the ambitious goal of jamming through funding boosts for defense and border security — separately ...

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

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

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