Despite only having until the end of January to pass the remaining nine annual government funding bills, Congress has so far ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Party leaders in Congress have long criticized government shutdowns as toxic and destructive. “Always a bad idea,” former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said of ...

WASHINGTON — The federal government has shut down after lawmakers in Congress failed to strike a deal on a funding bill, forcing agencies to furlough their "non-essential" employees. Under the ...

The federal government faces a shutdown if Congress fails to pass a funding bill by the midnight deadline on Oct. 1. Republicans control both chambers of Congress, but Democratic votes are needed in ...

The Senate voted to advance a short-term funding extension on Tuesday evening, a key step toward averting a partial government shutdown at the end of the week. The procedural vote was 68 to 13.

When the government shut down for a few weeks in October 2013, then-President Barack Obama made sure to blame conservative Republicans for refusing to pass any short-term spending bill that included ...

A sign indicating that the Federal Trade Commission is closed due to the government shutdown, Wednesday in Washington, D.C. (Al Drago/Getty Images) The U.S. government remained shut down as Congress ...

If the government shuts down after Tuesday, millions of federal workers will be at risk of missing a paycheck. Members of Congress, on the other hand, won't have to worry about that. That's in large ...