Federal employees went back to work Monday after the longest shutdown in government history — but the economic effects will be felt for a long time. A report released [...]
President Trump said he and congressional leaders have reached a deal that would temporarily halt the partial government shutdown. The proposal would reopen the government [...]
President Donald Trump is expected to publicly outline a new deal on Saturday that would trade three years of protections for so-called Dreamers in exchange for $5.7 billion [...]
The Senate adjourned with no solution to the partial government shutdown and no plans to reconvene until Dec. 27, indicating Washington is settling into a lengthy government [...]
The House vote came after President Donald Trump said Thursday he would not sign a short-term spending bill that did not include border-wall funding. The Senate will now have [...]
President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to shut down large parts of the federal government over funding for his proposed border wall, openly quarreling with Senate [...]
The Senate passed a bill by voice vote to avert a shutdown and fund the federal government for another two weeks. The House passed the legislation earlier Thursday. The [...]
President Donald Trump tweeted on Friday morning that he is “considering a VETO” of a bill funding the government because the legislation does not address DACA [...]
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a massive $400 billion budget agreement early Friday intended to end a partial federal government shutdown. The lawmakers voted [...]
US Democrats agreed Monday to support a temporary funding bill to end a partial shutdown of the federal government, now in its third day, as a key vote began in the Senate. [...]
The Lincoln Monument was a casualty of the last shutdown, in 2013. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster Scott R. Baker, Northwestern University The federal government shut down for the [...]
by Abby Livingston, The Texas Tribune Jan. 19, 2018 The U.S. government shut down early Saturday morning after Congress and the president could not come to an agreement on [...]