Highlights of 2025 in Congress included the longest partial government shutdown in history and the passage of the One Big ...

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 ...

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

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.

The Senate took a significant step towards averting an impending partial government shutdown by passing a tranche of funding bills much earlier than usual. Senators approved three of the 12 ...

The Capitol is seen at dusk as Democrats and Republicans in Congress are angrily blaming each other and refusing to budge from their positions on funding the government Tuesday. (J. Scott ...

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 ...