The deadline for Congress to keep the government funded is only a month before the tax filing deadline, creating a whole ...

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

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

Trump and Republican congressional leaders could fumble their way into a prolonged and painful shutdown of the federal government as a March 14 deadline looms.

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

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

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

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

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

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

CNN senior political analyst Mark Preston commented on some congressional Democrats considering a partial shutdown to protest President Donald Trump’s agenda.

Republicans have in the past few years struggled to meet funding deadlines because of strenuous opposition ... telling ...