Lawmakers in Congress are once again scrambling to pass a stopgap bill to avert a partial government shutdown with a deadline slightly less than two...

Republicans are pitching the strategy as a way of avoiding a politically damaging shutdown fight while giving President Trump more power to go around...

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump sought to rally support for a continuing resolution (CR) to avert a partial shutdown of the federal government in...

Democrats decried the measure as a White House power grab, leaving it unclear whether the legislation could pass.

Democrats are using Elon Musk and his massive government slash-and-burn initiative as bargaining chips to negotiate the debt ceiling and avert a...

House Speaker Mike Johnson said the Republican-led Congress is unlikely to pass new spending bills for the current fiscal year because of...

CNN  —  Democrats are rejecting House Republicans’ plan to pass a stopgap spending bill through the end of September, raising the s​​pecter...

Donald Trump broke his silence on Saturday afternoon with a plea to Republican lawmakers to pass a GOP-created continuing resolution to keep the...

At the same time, Republican lawmakers are aiming to add more than $100 billion to the Pentagon’s proposed budget, which would push military...

For the first time in years, the U.S. Congress is considering budget bills that could seriously rein in government spending growth. The big-budget...