The Senate on Friday passed a Republican-led stopgap measure to keep the government funded ahead of a midnight deadline.

President Trump signed Republicans’ yearlong government funding extension, avoiding a partial government shutdown, the White ...

District leaders say that a proposed cut to the city budget, part of a plan to avert a federal government shutdown, is unfair ...

The Senate approved a separate bill that allows D.C. to continue operating under its current budget, which seemed on track to ...

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.

Washington averted a government shutdown after an up-and-down week saw House Republicans offering a united front and ...

To shut down or not to shut down? That is the question – and it’s one that’s caused Democrats a tremendous amount of ...

Democrats were confronted with two painful options: allowing passage of a bill they believe gives President Donald Trump vast ...

Washington, D.C., which has often had a tenuous peace with the federal government when Republicans controlled Congress and ...