Spending on U.S. House of Representatives office accounts increased by more than 85% over the past three decades but nearly ...

Hundreds of thousands of federal employees could soon go without pay or face potential layoffs, since a government shutdown went into effect on Wednesday, Oct. 1. The GOP-controlled House passed a ...

The government shutdown is on the verge of becoming the longest in US history — and lawmakers still have no idea how much longer it will go.

If the Senate had approved the House-passed short-term government funding bill on or before the beginning of the shutdown, it would have extended the funding deadline for seven weeks -- until Nov. 21 ...

A bipartisan quartet of House lawmakers released a “statement of principles” Monday for a potential compromise on an ...

Some lawmakers worry that the impasse is ceding their authority over federal spending to an increasingly assertive president.

After more back and forth, it seems that “to be ascertained by law” meant that it would require a statute to stop paying ...

“The anticipated disruption to SNAP will not only increase poverty but also weaken ongoing city efforts to promote food ...

It follows a Congress that has already seen Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) break the Senate floor speech record, the longest House floor vote in modern history, the most votes taken in a “vote-a-rama,” and ...

The gathering at the White House on Monday comes after Trump canceled an earlier meeting with Democratic leaders.

When the government shut down for a few weeks in October 2013, then-President Barack Obama made sure to blame conservative Republicans for refusing to pass any short-term spending bill that included ...