Congress faces a Dec. 20 deadline to avert a government shutdown and is expected to kick the funding fight til early 2025 ...

Congress is back in Washington and lawmakers have a long to-do list before they adjourn for the year that includes avoiding a ...

Government-shutdown drama has been a regular tradition. But this year, Republicans are happy to wait until they control ...

Congress returns this week from a Thanksgiving recess with a number of priorities to get through before the end of the year.

If Congress does not pass some form of stopgap bill or appropriations package prior to Dec. 20, the government will enter ...

The Democratic-led U.S. Senate returned on Monday for a showdown with the Republican-controlled House of Representatives over ...

Most importantly, lawmakers have until December 20 to pass 12 appropriations bills, which include spending on the military, ...

During a shutdown, essential government employees work unpaid until Congress reaches a resolution. That would include air ...

Now that deadline is rapidly approaching, and the two parties in Congress still don't have an agreement on how much they want ...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday indicated that bipartisan negotiations to avert the threat of a ...

The main challenge for lawmakers over the next three weeks is to avert a pre-Christmas partial government shutdown by ...

With Republicans on the cusp of unified control of Washington, Congress appears primed to extend the deadline for a government shutdown well past President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.