Congress is back in Washington and lawmakers have a long to-do list before they adjourn for the year that includes avoiding a ...

Congress faces a Dec. 20 deadline to avert a government shutdown and is expected to kick the funding fight til early 2025 ...

As Congress reconvenes following the Thanksgiving break, a critical deadline looms over Capitol Hill. Lawmakers face a race ...

A deadline for funding the federal government is looming once again. Still, the Republicans' victory in the November elections makes the perennial partisan standoff over the budget and threats of a ...

Government-shutdown drama has been a regular tradition. But this year, Republicans are happy to wait until they control ...

If Congress does not pass some form of stopgap bill or appropriations package prior to Dec. 20, the government will enter ...

Most importantly, lawmakers have until December 20 to pass 12 appropriations bills, which include spending on the military, ...

Donald Trump won’t arrive back in the White House until January. But he’ll have fingerprints over every piece of the lame ...

Some lawmakers in the lame-duck session of Congress want to include specific provisions to help commodity farmers who weren’t hit by a disaster in any potential disaster aid packages.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday indicated that bipartisan negotiations to avert the threat of a ...

If Congress does not pass some form of stopgap bill or appropriations package prior to Dec. 20, the government will enter into a partial shutdown until they do so. Julia Johnson is a politics ...

With Republicans on the cusp of unified control of Washington, Congress appears primed to extend the deadline for a government shutdown well past President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.