The US government could potentially enter a shutdown next month, the first one that would ever take place during tax filing ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Schumer's stance is at odds with demands from progressive activists, who have been urging Democrats to block all business in ...

CNN senior political analyst Mark Preston commented on some congressional Democrats considering a partial shutdown to protest ...

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

Federal government funding expires on March 14. To avoid a painful shutdown, Congress will need to pass legislation designating new spending levels or extend current ones. For the last two years ...

On the first, there’s a real question about whether a Trump shutdown would look anything like the government shutdowns we’ve come to know over the past four decades. The legal basis for the ...