About 130 employees of the Wilson Center were told they were being put on leave, just four days after workers for Elon Musk’s ...

Air traffic controllers at Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport will be offered crisis counseling and additional ...

Like any home or business, the federal government must pay its bills: Congress has little time to prevent a government ...

Democrats were stuck between two choices they despised: Vote for a funding bill that reflects Republican spending priorities and will give Trump and his allies more leeway to dismantle the federal ...

The Senate on Friday passed a Republican-led stopgap measure to keep the government funded ahead of a midnight deadline.

The Democratic Party appears fractured as a torrent of frustration and anger has been unleashed on Senate Democratic Leader ...

District leaders say that a proposed cut to the city budget, part of a plan to avert a federal government shutdown, is unfair. The city raises most of its own money but cannot control how it is spent.

Government shutdown deadlines — and even full-on shutdowns — aren’t new for Washington, but this time, with federal funding set to run out Saturday after midnight, no one knows quite what to ...

On Friday, Senate Democrats were at each other’s throats in Washington ahead of a cloture vote on a continuing resolution to fund the government and avert a shutdown. Minority Leader Charles E.

Washington — Congress is staring down a deadline to fund the government by the end of the week, as the familiar threat of a shutdown looms over Washington. Lawmakers have until the end of the ...

Washington averted a government shutdown after an up-and-down week saw House Republicans offering a united front and resistant Democrats cornered. The key moment on Friday was an early evening ...

The measure’s fate is uncertain in the Senate, where several Democrats will be needed to cross the 60-vote threshold for it ...