Senate Democrats are expected to vote against a stopgap funding bill today, which means the federal government could shut down early Saturday. The Republican-controlled House approved the bill by ...

For the second time in less than four months, a government shutdown is looming as negotiations in Congress continue between Republicans and Democrats. The Senate was expected to vote on the final ...

It’s death by a thousand cuts - of red tape. You are bled out by government. President Donald Trump was endlessly subjected to stupid, phony charges and lawsuits filed in various courts all ...

A battle is being waged in the quiet corners of government websites and data repositories. Essential public records are disappearing and, with them, Americans’ ability to hold those in power ...

A shutdown furloughing hundreds of thousands of federal workers would restrict a range of government operations, although critical services would continue. Here is what to expect. In a shutdown ...

But the threat of big reductions in future remain. The US government averted a shutdown late last week after President Donald Trump signed into law a spending agreement that is likely to lock in ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Wednesday that most Democrats in the upper chamber will not support a House Republican-passed bill to fund the federal government through the end of ...

Yet the need to raise the debt ceiling is symptomatic of a bigger issue: the federal government is broke. For example, 98 percent of people in the U.S. own a mobile phone. Yet more than 11 percent ...

A government shutdown looms as the House and Senate clash over a funding bill. Essential federal employees, including air traffic controllers and TSA agents, would work without pay, potentially ...

Washington — Congress is staring down a deadline to fund the government by the end of the week, as the familiar threat of a shutdown looms over Washington. Lawmakers have until the end of the ...

She said the government will not freeze PIP - as reports had previously suggested - but instead make it harder to qualify for the daily living allowance component. PIP is money for people who have ...

The Senate passed a GOP-backed spending plan to keep the government up and running through September, almost certainly averting a government shutdown, with multiple Senate Democrats—including ...