Lawmakers are battling time as they seek to pass legislation that will fund the government and avert a possible shutdown set to take effect Friday.

A federal judge says President Donald Trump overstepped his authority in freezing almost all spending on U.S. humanitarian ...

Republicans were pressing rank-and-file lawmakers to fall in line behind a stopgap measure that would mostly keep government ...

The battle over the budget comes to a head this week as the continuing resolution passed late last year expires Friday. If ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson holds an ultra-thin voting majority as Congress races to avert a government shutdown. This is putting more attention on three upcoming special elections to fill vacancies in ...

By design, budget reconciliation mostly addresses the parts of federal spending that are not part of the appropriations ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters at a press conference Tuesday morning that this continuing budget resolution will ...

U.S. President Donald Trump says he’ll double planned tariffs on Canadian aluminum and steel, sticking with a trade war despite Monday’s stock market drop. Meanwhile, Republicans face a ...

House Republicans aim for budget approval while facing Democratic opposition and growing recession fears, as President Trump ...

Let the Republicans fund the government or shut it down. Democrats should stand back and let them own whatever comes next.

Normally, when it comes to keeping the government fully open for business, Republicans have had to work with Democrats to ...

A Republican House resolution directed a committee to propose ways to reduce the deficit by at least $880 billion over a decade. Lawmakers have taken Medicare off the table for cuts, which makes it ...