Senate Democrats say privately that they will not allow the government to shut down on Saturday, despite growing pressure from activists and liberal lawmakers who want them to kill a GOP-crafted ...

Republicans would rather let an unchecked billionaire and the president seize taxpayer funds intended for families and ...

Worries about a possible U.S. government shutdown are weighing on risk appetite, erasing the improved sentiment from Wednesday's weaker-than-expected U.S. inflation data, Deutsche Bank Research said ...

Government shutdown deadlines — and even full-on shutdowns — aren’t new for Washington, but this time, with federal funding ...

If the shutdown comes to fruition, it would represent “fear, anxiety and insult to injury” for some Philadelphia Internal ...

Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) defied House Democratic leadership Tuesday when he voted for the GOP’s bill to avert a government shutdown — the only one in the caucus to support the stopgap. Golden’s ...

A familiar scene has played out over and over in the U.S. House: Republicans, unable to approve federal funding legislation ...

Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) defied House Democratic leadership Tuesday when he voted for the GOP’s bill to avert a government ...

Friday is the deadline to get a government funding bill passed through Congress and to President Trump’s desk to avoid a ...

Washington Democrats finally have a first point of leverage against President Donald Trump — but it comes with a dilemma that could leave them looking even more hapless than they have so far in his ...

With a government shutdown deadline looming, Senate Democrats are vowing to block the GOP funding bill, leaving the fate of federal operations uncertain. Senate Republicans need eight Democratic votes ...