There are 12 appropriations bills that must pass each year and since members of Congress are sharply divided, this is ...

Congress revoked an additional $20 billion from the Internal Revenue Service last week when lawmakers averted a government ...

However, Congress has passed legislation to pay service members during specific government shutdowns in the past.

Government offices and economic analysts found that previous full and partial government shutdowns cost the U.S. multiple ...

President-elect Donald Trump and multibillionaire Elon Musk had sunk an earlier bipartisan deal, only to see their preferred ...

Donald Trump is getting ready to battle Congress as he returns to the White House. But Washington has a way of pushing back ...

Despite the threat of government shutdowns, the government never actually shuts down, but instead creates more government jobs and wastes more money through the increased bureaucracy required to ...

Facing a government shutdown deadline, the Senate rushed through final passage early Saturday of a bipartisan plan that would ...

On the first day of the new Congress, representatives will vote for the speaker of the House as Mike Johnson fights to keep ...

Federal contractors, who never expected Congress to get a full-year appropriation done last week, were pleased about the ...

The spending bill that cleared Congress didn’t include pharmacy benefit manager reforms, a pay raise for lawmakers, and a ...