Short of a major breakthrough in the coming days, Congress is staring down the barrel of yet another crisis over government ...

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

With President Donald Trump and Elon Musk taking a sledgehammer to the federal bureaucracy with their “Department of ...

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

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

The Ides of March falls on March 15, and barring a congressional deal, it’s also the day a partial government shutdown could begin. Yet, Republicans are seemingly doing everything they can to en ...

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

Other Democrats are not openly calling for a government shutdown, and instead say that ... clear what they want out of the March 14 spending deal, with many pointing out they don’t negotiate ...

Most presidents try to avoid a government shutdown at all costs ... either given the technicalities (or lack thereof) of the deal they are being offered. Trump might even test the limits of ...

But they do have one looming piece of leverage: the March 14 deadline to avert a government shutdown. House and Senate ...

Democratic senators have suggested they were willing to allow the government to shut down to protest Trump and ... and a great deal of damage—much of it irreversible—will occur between now ...