Most of the federal government is shut down after Congress failed to reach a funding agreement. We asked two House members — a Democrat and Republican — where they think talks go from here

Republican and Democratic lawmakers have provided few public signs of meaningful negotiations to break an impasse on reopening the federal government.

The U.S. government began a partial shutdown Oct. 1 after Congress was unable to pass an appropriations bill before a key deadline.

Some top Republican senators are asking the White House to roll back its plans to withhold funding for the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, which oversees watchdogs across executive branch agencies.

The shutdown happened because Republicans and Democrats could not agree to pass a bill funding government services into October and beyond. Under the US system, the different branches of government have to reach an agreement on spending plans before they can become law.

As Republicans try to pin blame for shutdown damage on Democrats, they are hailing a federal bureaucracy they normally bash as wasteful and overreaching.

Much of the federal government shut down after Congress failed to reach a deal to approve new funding. Here's what that means.

Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday corralled his oft-fractured House conference to pass a Republican plan to fund the government through November 21, as Congress scrambles to avert a looming shutdown. The 217-212 vote to advance the seven-week stopgap bill now ...

The federal government is on the brink of its 15th partial shutdown since 1981 because lawmakers have failed to agree on a plan for discretionary funding - the money that is allocated through the annual congressional budgeting process - for the new fiscal year, or about one-quarter of the $7 trillion U.S. budget.

“We know we need a smaller, more accountable, more focused America First government. I will tolerate nothing else,” the Ohio Republican continued. House Republican leaders are attempting to pass a stopgap bill this week that would keep the government funded largely at current levels through Nov. 20, GOP sources told The Hill.

Here's a simple, straight-forward explanation of what a government shutdown means, how it happens, who is responsible and what it could mean for you.