Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the Trump administration has finished its six-week purge of programs of the ...

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.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump overstepped his constitutional authority in freezing almost all spending on U.S.

Before Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) can dare Senate Democrats to reject a Republican-crafted bill to avert an end-of-week shutdown, he has to pull off a feat: keeping his fractious, razor-thin ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress will try to pass a stopgap spending bill this week to avert a partial government shutdown and keep the government running through September, though they’ll ...

We are very unified,” Clark said, speaking with WBUR’s Morning Edition. “We are going to choose working families over ...

The struggling U.S. housing market is bracing for more problems if Congress is unable to avoid a government shutdown this ...

Rep. Andy Harris, the Eastern Shore Republican who chairs the House Freedom Caucus, has lined up his group behind President ...

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