For the second time in less than four months, a government shutdown is looming as negotiations in Congress continue between Republicans and Democrats. The Senate was expected to vote on the final ...

A shutdown furloughing hundreds of thousands of federal workers would restrict a range of government operations, although critical services would continue. Here is what to expect. In a shutdown ...

Senate Democrats are expected to vote against a stopgap funding bill today, which means the federal government could shut down early Saturday. The Republican-controlled House approved the bill by ...

The Senate passed a GOP-backed spending plan to keep the government up and running through September, almost certainly averting a government shutdown, with multiple Senate Democrats—including ...

The new Trump administration has made reducing the size of the federal government one of its top priorities. One month in, it has sought to eliminate departments and agencies and shrink the federal ...

If the government were to shut down, non-essential employees would be told to stay home from work until a new spending plan is approved, while essential staff, including military and those ...

Government infusions at key moments helped Tesla and SpaceX flourish, boosting Musk’s wealth. Elon Musk and his cost-cutting U.S. DOGE Service team have been on a mission to trim government ...

Congress averted a government shutdown Friday just hours before the funding deadline, after the Senate approved a House-passed spending bill that exposed deep rifts within the Democratic Party.

In the village of Siphocosini, Eswatini, Clement Tsabedze still remembers the moment that nearly took his life.After being bitten by a black mamba--one of the most feared and venomous snakes in the ...

N.Y.) threw a wrench into a Republican plan to avert a government shutdown this weekend, saying there wasn’t enough Democratic support to advance the measure funding federal agencies through Sept.

Shutdown averted: The Senate on Friday narrowly averted a government shutdown at midnight, passing in a 54-46, nearly party-line vote a G.O.P.-written stopgap spending measure that funds the ...

Smaller government and spending cuts have been core Republican objectives at least since the advent of Reaganomics in the 1980s. So when Donald Trump announced in September 2024 that he would ...